Vauxhall Cavalier 'car of the future' advert 1980s

[topshowstigharrison]

Please reply this if you know what the name of that music is at the VERY end of this video.

[balsingh1]

@topshowstigharrison Eric Clapton - Layla

[sufzyyyy]

GSI all day long

[ROCKSOLID19]

Scrapyard car of the future!

[avalonsister1]

Hi DuneWorld1, the music for this ad was composed and performed by Anthony and Gaynor Sadler who have written much more besides. They still write tons of stuff for broadcast [Ads, Idents etc] but also music in a more serious vein: check out their Pie Jesu sung by Spirit of the Age. It's on Youtube and kinda interesting.

[38wd]

I've driven a Vauxhall Cavalier 1.7d was bloody slow going uphills almost died of death. I have never driven a Ford Sierra so can't comment on it being r.w.d. On the other hand I do have a Rover and an MG now

[matthewbrewster1]

never particuarly cared for vauxhalls, but i loved the commercials becuase of the "layla" riff at the end :P

[lucinit1985]

In this states, the Cavalier has a very bad repuation of poor quality and are for people of low class and lesser means. I wish we would have recieved this version. It seems like every car made in Europe destined for the states is always ends up crappy after all the regulations are put on.

[iRedliin3]

Sierra > Cavalier

RWD ?

[Patruck92]

Did Eric Clapton give his rights for this?!

[banzaiian]

my dad had loads of these cavaliers one he did over 300 000 miles but it was slow as fuck

[vpole]

The best bit about these cars is pissing off Saab 900 drivers who paid more 5 years later on for pretty much the same car.

[figarus666]

Opel vectra mk1

[DuneWorld1]

I know the riff at the end is from Layla, but anyone have an idea who composed the music in the rest of the add. Or any other info about it. Appreciated!

[Doomsday2060]

Decent for its time I suppose - If a 20 year old design passes past me and it doesn't look a bit out of place, it is quite well styled. There is a 27 year old sierra down the road and that doesn't look out of place either, looks rather young when it is polished up

On the other hand you could find a Peugeot or Rover of the same age or even younger and it will look a bit tatty

[EgoShredder]

@Doomsday2060

Yeah the pre 306 designs were very boxy and naff looking, well apart from the 205. My best friend still has his 1992 Cavalier 1.4 which he bought in 1994 and actually prefers it to his Jaguar Sovereign! I doubt he will get rid of the Cavalier any time soon. My sister had the Astra 1.4 1990 G reg which had the same engine, and she would have that back in a flash if she could; currently she has the Astra 1.6 SXi late 2002 plate.

[C64player]

I got that car, even same colour. I just love it:-). But here in Germany its called OPEL VECTRA

[bullybullseye123]

i miss my cavalier, she was a lovely car

[MrJonnybaby123]

They should still use the layla fiff today! I used to love watching vauxhall adverts just to hear that riff!!!!

[mynewflatrocks]

The mk3 cav was the only reason vauxhall didnt go under in the 90's. when it came out it was like that new vauxhall has curves!! Smashing car!

[deltorunsetup]

not until the year 2000, wow

[wilf45]

According to the DVLA database the car in this ad was taxed until 2004.

[Jakezxz1]

LOL!!!

My dad had an M reg 1.8 tdi.

Pile of wank it was!

[deltorunsetup]

@Jakezxz1 lol, i`ll grass you up to your dad!

[kieranwebb98]

i own one one of thes and im only 16 its in a garage been there for 7 years

[razmanmatt]

Class.....I still have my cavalier Sri 130 saloon in good old burgandy haha!! I love it!!!

[UBIQUEROL]

The Cavalier was a complete and utter piece of shit

[bboygoldenboy]

me dad had a few it was shit i used to call it a vauxhall diarrhoea

[dunemoonbeam]

car does asctualy look inteligent i sort of wish modern cars wern't so playful looking but the guitar solo at the en was nice

[lilgreenfingerpuppet]

vauxhall chavalier! the king of the pikeys car

[tag1989]

YH LOL

[80sfordman]

"The option of power distribution to all 4 wheels and electronically controlled non-lock brakes will make it virtually impossible to skid"

But then again ladies & gentlemen, if you had wanted any of these features you could have bought yourself a Ford Sierra XR4x4 about 4 years earlier! :)

[ProMotivUK]

Best bit about this ad?? It was pulled very swiftly after GM bosses discovered that the 'car of the future' was actually based on a 1950's Ford Concept designed by Alex Tremulus... cock!

Custom car legend Andy Saunders bought the nose cone and finished the car as Ford had intended

[hamsterdance4lyf08]

Now I see loads of them cars in the rough parts of town modified!

[thetaylorschool]

its hard to belive its past the year 2000 and where are they

[tag1989]

hha yh your right you hardly see them today lol? well it just goes to show that people would say anything on tv just to sell there products eh :)

[rjclemo]

cav forever!!!!!!

[kazimann]

The Cav in the ad, which was red at some stage of it's life, lasted until 2004: The vehicle details for F562 OYE are: Date of Liability 01 01 2004 Date of First Registration 01 08 1988 Year of Manufacture 1988 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 1796CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status Unlicensed Vehicle Colour RED Vehicle Type Approval null

[mrspivvy]

car of the future? ironic considering they are almost extinct now. a decent enough drive though for all that, I'd have one over a mondeo

[mrhosehose]

Layla

[havertyp]

I have a 250,000 mile 1991 Vectra A - unburstable, just fitted a Weber carb to it as the old Pierburg was pants, giving 42 mpg! Totally reliable, better than the gadget trollies currently on the road

[Regalseven]

Montego ... Now that realy was certainly a real pile of fucking shit!

[drewerz01]

Now now be nice man, the MG Montego Turbo with that O-series 2.0EFI engine was at one point the fastest car in the world for acceleration, seriously check the stats you'll see! I agree the Montego isn't even in the Cavaliers league over all (I know, I've had both:-) but its still a real nice car, just a shame rover didn't make them properly, there are deffinately worse cars than the Montego ever was!! Anything from Korea is a good example:-)

[daewooparts]

montego , is a POS , it only goes fast when its on the back of a wrecker being towed off the road :P

[FrancisPGalvin]

@Regalseven I have owned two reall shit cars and the Montego was one of them. It ruined a blossoming relationship between me and a very tidy Canadian girl.

[funkysi79]

Great car the MK3 Cavalier, I've had two of them quite a few years ago. A GSI2000 and a Cesaro. Both saloons (which looked more attractive than the hatch).

I miss the GSi, even to this day.

[michaelc6012]

I saw and advert back in their day it said . . . "The Cavelier is the car of the future but the Montego is ahead of its time"

[balsingh1]

Montego ... now that was a real pile of shit!

[shazndai]

iv had all the cavs in the range gsi v6 even the gold cdi in the ad and must say i now own a vectra v6 which does not come close to the good old cav one of the best cars ever made for the normal pocket. shit i wat another one but misses wont let me lol

[AndyGriff72]

I had a Mk3 Cavalier for years. It was nails -- it never broke down, there was not a speck of rust on it, and it was still happily chugging away with 170,000 miles on the clock when I got rid of it. It finished production in 1995, so the very newest are now 13 years old, but you still see loads of them around.

[vectorm1299]

The price of a decent mk3 Cavalier is rising at the moment.

I've had mine for 4 months now, bought for £250. I then put £500 into it.

I have recently been offered £1200 for it from a 'Cavalier enthusiast'

If peopl are willing to part with that money now, i'll keep hold of mine a while longer.

[LiamOlf]

Why did Vauxhall always put saloons in the TV ads when the hatchbacks were a lot more popular?

[balsingh1]

simple really .... the hatchbacks always sold well so didnt really need any promotion. the saloon on the other hand was a slower seller so they were emphasised in the adverts.

[Dog328]

No Carmanifacture would sell a car when they couldnt repair it or make sure its reliable, and lets face it, its end of the 80's, not the 70's, the Cavalier/Vectra was a reliable car, what was futuristic is the design, most carmakers did still make horribly ugly boxes with wheels back then, and Vauxhall did such a car in 1988, which was radical and mindblowing, then the calibra came on which was in 1989 produced less drag then any other production car in the world, it set a Worldrecord!

[vectorm1299]

True,

I'd rather have a Cavalier than a Sierra.

Sure Cosworth made the Sierra a total nut case on the track and some on the road.

But a base model I would rather choose a Cavalier.

[bornagainbiker]

wow that was a lot of technology in a car in them days... so many things to go wrong!

I bet there was only a very small handful of garages which would be able to run a full diagnostics on it too, making cost a bomb when things went wrong!

[jedw]

Still got one of these, metallic blue 4 door version with a boot. - much nicer than hatchbacks.

[balsingh1]

vauxhall goes it bang on with this car. its hard to believe its almost 20 years old now. compare ot to the boring rubbish that vauxhall throw out these days (eg. Vectra).

[Tomj2110]

Is the closing music towards the end of the clip,Layla?

[balsingh1]

yes. it was used on most vauxhall commercials in the late 80s & early 90s.

[Tomj2110]

I remember watching this at my grandad's house.

[Tomj2110]

Great piece of Music by Derek and the dominos.

[misteralz]

That'll be where Andy Saunders got the nose for his X2000, then...

[MidlandNinja]

MK3 Cav was probably better than Sierra, though the MK2 was a rustbucket which is now as rare as hens teeth

[balsingh1]

one of the greatest car ads for a great car. been looking for this on here for ages!

[EuroCarfan00]

that cars looks so good, I would not even be embarrassed to say its looks are good for this year!

[2litresierra]

your right there matey most new cars jus look like aload of crap.

got all this electronic crap on them and they are made of plastic

[Tomj2110]

Yes,2litresierra,they are crap alright.I think both the cavalier and the Ford Sierra are great cars and I think they are both better than the Fiesta.

[Bogracer]

Yes -- you know when you have made it when -- ahem -- you drive a Cavalier!

[tanvirsaini]

Cavalier > Sierra

[Silvertrine]

@tanvirsaini If you're a contrarian perhaps. If you look at the designs today, one looks horribly dated and one still looks good.

[piuthemagicman]

@tanvirsaini Sierra is better, it's RWD.

[kernals12]

@piuthemagicman RWD is old fashioned in such a sensible car, did you know that the Sierra's AMERICAN counterpart, the Taurus, had FWD?

[piuthemagicman]

@kernals12 Of course i knew that... But for people who like to tune their cars RWD is the best and Sierra is more fun to drive becauseof the RWD :)

[JJMCB22]

Better looking than the MKII anyway.

[MidlandNinja]

Great car - loads still about.