ROAD TEST
VAUXHALL NOVA
ORDER OF MERIT
Thirty years after it first appeared, we revisit a car which was once as common as Woolworths but has since become a real rarity. Words and photography: Paul Wager
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ttempting to describe the Vauxhall Nova to someone unfamiliar with the early ’80s British car market would possibly be something of a struggle: it was called the Nova here, but only in the UK, since the Vauxhall brand had been phased out in Ireland and they used the name by which the rest of Europe knew the car: Corsa, which to add further confusion was a product of the Opel marque and not a Vauxhall, the Luton brand by then being purely limited to the UK. Oh and history throws in a further dash of confusion since GM’s UK management referred to the car as being the ‘S83’ platform in internal
Now there's a sign of a well-preserved original car.
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