Vauxhall Viva Is Our Next Chevrolet Spark
Published: December 3rd, 2014
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Take a look at the Vauxhall Viva – or Opel Karl in the rest of Europe. The South Korean-built minicar is very likely to be our next Chevrolet Spark.
With a 1.0L 3-cylinder engine making 75 horsepower, five seats and integration for iOs and Android mobile devices, the Viva is designed to capture former Spark customers (Chevrolet has been axed from Europe) as well those flocking towards the Volkswagen Up! and other A-segment cars. Vauxhall is touting the fact that the Viva will have proper windows that roll up and down, not just pop out, a sign of just how stingy some entrants are in their quest to offer ultra-cheap motoring.
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I see they've corrected the awful front end, kudos. The model looks less like a clown car, at least from this angle.
Well, I think it looks like a doorstop styled by fourth graders who spend too much time playing with Transformers. Just like most of the other small cars these days. It's a shame that rear visibility will be so abysmal with those weird triangular rear windows. Plus all the electronic doohickeys will fail in a couple of years, be more expensive to fix than the car is worth, thus never get fixed. And power windows in a car so small you can just reach across and roll the window up is silly. Underneath it all is probably a pretty good car. I just wish someone would make that car.