SUVs now reign supreme among fast family cars. Here's when Vauxhall tried to crash the party with a 240hp MPV
SUVs now reign supreme among fast family cars. Here's when Vauxhall tried to crash the party with a 240hp MPV
But there was a point, lest we forget, where the MPV tried to get a seat at the family-friendly performance car table. Mercedes had a right go of it in 2006 with the R63, which was powered by the same 510hp 6.2-litre V8 as the W211 E63. The fact that the R63 was only around for one model year and production consisted of just 322 examples - of which 12 were right-hand drive UK-spec cars - shows just how niche the performance MPV was.
It was popular, too. If HowManyLeft is anything to go by, Vauxhall shifted over 2,700 of them in Britain alone, and with other hot Vauxes flying off forecourts a successor was a no-brainer. In 2005, the Zafira VXR arrived based on the second generation of Vauxhall’s mid-sized MPV. It followed the formula of the original closely with sharper styling and near identical underpinnings to the then-new gen-three Astra.
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