• I'd thought the ShoveIt was just a hatch version of the Viva, hadn't realised it was the successor. (I learned on one, and we had friends who'd only just got rid of their Viva, so I thought of them as being available in parallel.) And I definitely thought there were slant front Vivas, but I reckon I was thinking of the droop snoot Firenze.

    Still thought of the Macc Lads and their sexist versions of nights out when I saw the original pic though -

    Vauxhall Viva's covered in rust
    But you can't fuck a girl on a 29 bus

  • Billy Bragg's From a Vauxhall Velox is slightly more nuanced:

    She said "do these seats fold down"
    And I said "if you pull that handle"
    All the time she'd been waiting for
    Something with a little more
    And all her mates on the new estates
    Were walking out in confetti and sunshine

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