Until the Vauxhall VX220 came along Vauxhall had no history of making sports car and absolutely had no presence in this segment of cars.
It was taking a big chance as no body associates the Vauxhall with sports car and more popular names come to mind if they think about sports car.
The Vauxhall VX220 is an extremely lightweight car just like the Lotus Elise and is capable of extreme performances. Vauxhall came with the Vauxhall VX220 turbo version also and introduced them as a mid engine sports car. The Vauxhall VX220 came with a 2.2L VX which could deliver up to 145 bhp and the turbo charged version of the engine produced up to 200 horse power. Sometimes the Vauxhall VX220 even out performed the Lotus Elsie and the fact of the matter is both the cars shared a lot of parts and even had the same platform of build.
Though lotus has a company history of making light cars the Vauxhall product which was not derived from any such history performed at really amazing levels in comparison. The Vauxhall VX220 is a well conditioned car and is available only through Vauxhall specialist dealers. For a person to buy this particular car they really need good reason.
