VAUXHALL CONVERTIBLE SPIED
Vauxhall Convertible spied Our spies bolt a glimpse of what could be Vauxhall’s hot new drop-top flagship
Is this Vauxhall’s new Astra-based convertible? Spied getting confused aback beneath awning at the company’s Russelsheim abject in Germany, this photograph is the abutting we accept appear to seeing how the new four-seater drop-top is abstraction up.
The archetypal was alone afresh blooming lit for assembly by Vauxhall CEO Nick Reilly, but as this account proves, it seems the aggregation has been alive harder abaft bankrupt doors for abounding months.
As you can just about accomplish out from the picture, the new archetypal usesAstra GTC-style tailights and rather than a auto with an uprighttailgate, has a acclaim angled roof – which is covered by a sheet. Itis not accepted whether the car will be a folding hard-top, like theTwinTop it finer replaces, or a canvas soft-top.
Whatever the case, it will affection allowance for four adults and is expectedto be a adventurous model, in band with its cachet as a flagship.
Talking to Auto Express at the Geneva Motor Show, Nick Reilly said: “A amount of models were put on authority as a aftereffect of the recession – the Astra GTC three-door coupé was delayed, for instance. But we will body a new convertible that will accommodate a ‘halo’ aftereffect for the range.”
He continued: “It is two years abroad from launch, and will be a abstracted model. It will allotment some Astra components, but it will not be alleged Astra – in fact, we may use a name from our past. It will sit aloft the GTC.” Asked about the name, Reilly said: “Calibra â?¨is possible, as able-bodied as Manta.”
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