This car makes me want to buy a big stack of orange canson. C3 meets F-type — in an orange grove.
The Vauxhall brand received a serious shake up care of Wayne Cherry, who penned this car in 1966. Unveiled in Geneva, the XVR borrowed its engine from an XV 4/90. It featured a backbone chassis, all-independent wishbone suspension and disc brakes. Unfortunately, only three XVRs were built at Vauxhall’s Engineering and Styling Center (“File:1966 VauxhallXVR.jpg”). When I look these pictures, I can’t help thinking of John DeLorean’s Pontiac Banshee proposal — which also had a short life…
“File:1966 VauxhallXVR.jpg” Wikimedia Commons 10 July 2009. Web. 11 Mar 2010.
Looks like a sixties Hot Wheels Corvette
Indeed.