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14 unusual facts about Vauxhall


Automotive industry in Germany

During the 1970s and early 1980s, General Motors integrated Opel with the British Vauxhall brand so that designs were shared with the only difference being the names.

C-segment

Basically the Golf, together with other 5 models (Ford Focus, Opel Astra with its Vauxhall twin, Audi A3, BMW 1 Series and Skoda Octavia makes the half of the market.

GM U platform

The Opel Sintra (badged as the Vauxhall Sintra in the United Kingdom) was an export built in the US alongside other vans for the European market.

Lotus Elise

General Motors offered to partner/fund the project, in return for a badged and GM-engined version of the car for their European brands, Opel and Vauxhall.

Pontiac LeMans

The Pontiac/Daewoo Lemans was a rebadged variant of the Opel Kadett; Opel Kadett Combo (European markets); Vauxhall Astra Mark 2, Vauxhall Belmont, Bedford Astravan, Bedford Astramax (Britain); Chevrolet Kadett(1989) (in Brazil); and the UzDaewooAuto Nexia (in Uzbekistan).

Port Soderick railway station

There was however much damage to the Vauxhall van and remedial damage to the wooden buffer beam of the 1874-built locomotive which was involved.

Price's Candles

Price's Candles was founded by William Wilson in 1830, and originally consisted of a candle factory at Vauxhall, London and a crushing mill upstream at Battersea, York Road.

Sir Joseph Mawbey, 1st Baronet

When about ten years old he was taken to Surrey by his uncle, Joseph Pratt, main owner of a distillery at Vauxhall.

Mawbey married in August 1760 Elizabeth, only surviving daughter of his cousin, Richard Pratt of Vauxhall, and on her brother's death in 1766 she succeeded to property.

Supermini

Half of the sales are covered by five best selling models such us Ford Fiesta, the recently renewed Renault Clio and Peugeot 208, the VW Polo and the Opel Corsa together with its twin Vauxhall.

Vauxhall

Vauxhall Cross was described as "one of the most unpleasant road junctions in South London" in Nikolaus Pevsner's architectural guide to London.

Vauxhall, Auckland

These in turn were named after the Vauxhall Gardens in London, some of the gardeners of which were brought out to New Zealand.

Vauxhall was a constituent suburb of the Borough of Devonport until 1989, when the Borough disappeared in local body reorganisation and became part of the newly created North Shore City.

Vauxhall, New Jersey

Elliott Maddox (born 1947), former professional baseball player who played for both the New York Mets and New York Yankees.


2000 British Touring Car Championship season

Nissan, Renault and Volvo retired their works teams, thus leaving only three manufacturers with factory supported entries: Ford, Honda and Vauxhall.

Albert Embankment

Albert Embankment is also the name given to the part of the A3036 road between Vauxhall Bridge and Lambeth Bridge, where it adjoins Lambeth Palace Road and Lambeth Road.

Avon Safety Wheel

The wheel design was also used on British Leyland's Morris Marina Safety Research Vehicle, though featuring very different styling from the version employed by Vauxhall.It was also used on the Bristol 411 series 4.

Bedford OB

The vehicles were all on display outside the Vauxhall Museum before making a road run to Bletchley Park.

Blaupunkt

Audi, Volkswagen, Porsche, Mercedes, Vauxhall, Pontiac and BMW all fit Blaupunkt products into their cars, often branded with the car manufacturer's own mark (e.g. The VW Gamma or Audi Symphony lines), with Fiat using them, occasionally unbranded but generally unmodified.

C20XE

The C20XE engine featured in many Opel/Vauxhall vehicles including some models of the Opel Astra/Kadett E and the Opel Calibra/Vectra.

Cerizay

The firm currently construct the roof module for the Peugeot 206CC and till 2009 built the Vauxhall/Opel Tigra Twin Top.

Clubmans

Sports 1600 gave way to "K Sports" with a Rover K-series engine and the 16-valve two-litre Vauxhall temporarily replaced the 1700 cc Crossflow unit in 1993 for the short-lived rear-engined Supersports category.

Executive car

Larger Triumphs such as the 2000 and 2500 firmly fitted into this category, as did some of the larger Vauxhall models from the VX4/90 and Ventora through to the Carlton.

Gareth Howell

He managed to secure a number of outings during the year, including at Silverstone as team-mate to Gavin Pyper at GA Motorsport, piloting a Vauxhall Astra Coupé.

Hilda Hewlett

She married Maurice Henry Hewlett on 3 January 1888 in St. Peter's Church, Vauxhall, where her father was the incumbent.

Isthmian League

The sponsors after Rothmans to the present day have been: Michael Lawrie (1977–78), Berger (1978–82), Servowarm (1982–85), Vauxhall-Opel (1985–90), Vauxhall (1990–91), Diadora (1991–95), ICIS (1995–97) and Ryman (1997–present).

Jeff T. Thomas

For American television, he directed episodes of Without a Trace, Three Rivers, CSI: NY and The Defenders, as well as directing commercials for Audi, Nissan, PlayStation, T-Mobile, Renault, Vauxhall and Vodafone.

John Worgan

His compositions, now forgotten, include two oratorios: ‘Hannah’ (King's Theatre, Haymarket, 3 April 1 764) and ‘Manasseh’ (Lock Hospital Chapel, 30 April 1766); ‘We will rejoice in Thy salvation,’ a thanksgiving anthem for victories (29 Nov. 1759); many songs for Vauxhall Gardens, of which thirteen books (at least) were published; psalm tunes, glees, organ music, and sonatas and other pieces for the harpsichord.

Murder of Suzanne Pilley

The court was told that the dogs, springer spaniels, had identified three areas of interest; one in the basement area of the offices, and two in the boot of David Gilroy's silver Vauxhall Vectra.

Opel Combo

The Bedford/Vauxhall Astramax (Opel Kadett Combo in mainland Europe) was a very popular choice with drivers, and on the television show Lovejoy, it was used as a minor action vehicle.

Philippe Létourneau

He competed in Formula 1600, Formula 2000, Champcar Light, Formula Renault, Formula Vauxhall Junior, Touring car, Spec Racer, Formula Atlantic, and Daytona Prototypes, and competed at circuits including Silverstone, Magny Cours, Daytona Speedway, Mont Tremblant and Gilles Villeneuve.

Pickup Truck Racing

From 2011 the trucks could be fitted with either a Vauxhall Petrol Injected 2 litre red top engine or a Ford Duratec engine, both of which are four cylinder engines with a 2 litre capacity and 16 valves.

Ripspeed

It started with a 1999 Vauxhall Corsa C SXI, which was followed in 1999 with a Ford Focus Ripspeed's current project is a 1991 Nissan 200SX turbo which is a drift car project and has been seen in action at Santa Pod raceway in 2007.

Roger d'Amory

He fought at the Battle of Bannockburn where he provided "good services", following which he was granted the manors of Sandal, Yorkshire and Vauxhall, Surrey, in 1317.

Russ Swift

Typically they use a completely standard Mini Cooper S and/or a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, though Russ has performed in countless other vehicles, including Peugeots, Vauxhalls, Nissans, MGs, Land Rovers, Black Cabs, Subarus, and 13-tonne lorries.

Shirley Chisholm

At age three, Chisholm was sent to Barbados to live with her maternal grandmother, Emaline Seale, in Christ Church; where she attended the Vauxhall Primary School.

Swainsthorpe

At 6:22am on Thursday 1 March 2007, a One Railway service travelling from Colchester in Essex to Norwich, collided with a Vauxhall Astra at the level crossing at Swainsthorpe.

Vauxhall Slant-4 engine

It is said that when Vauxhall unveiled its new slant-four engine at the 1966 Earls Court Motor Show its bore centers were exactly the same as those proposed by Lotus for their new all-alloy engine.

Vauxhall Wyvern

The name comes from the mythical beast the Wyvern and may be due to a misidentification of the heraldic Griffin on the Vauxhall badge.