I don’t think it’s unfair to say that CCB’s staff skews a bit younger than our average readership. That being the case, you’ll forgive me for indulging in an experience that I imagine is quite common for a lot of you – seeing a car you can remember being absolutely everywhere in your youth now being sold at a classic car dealer. Because in the mid-1990s the Mk3 Vauxhall Cavalier was close to being the ‘default car’, in as much as my eye was caught by anything that wasn’t a Cavalier while Vauxhall’s mid-size repmobile just blended into the background. And the sales figures suggest that this wasn’t just because of one industrious dealer in Southampton because the third and final Cavalier was common everywhere.
Whether by accident or design, Vauxhall had managed to arrange its development schedule so it launched a new Cavalier just as the equivalent Ford was
