When I posted about the Vauxhall Senator a few weeks ago, @dentaku was asking if Vauxhall sold their own version of the original Opel Monza. The answer is yes, and here it is, the Vauxhall Royale Coupé (the first-generation Senator saloon was also badged Vauxhall Royale in the UK), seen here at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon last year.

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Today, a rival to yesterday’s Toyota Avensis, and one also produced in the UK. This is the Vauxhall Vectra B, introduced in 1995, successor to the Vauxhall Cavalier and Opel Ascona lines. This high-spec 2.6 V6 CDX example was actually the last Vectra off the production line at Vauxhall’s main car plant at Luton before it closed in 2002, and has fittingly ended up at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon.

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After yesterday’s Senator, today we’re looking at an earlier Vauxhall range-topper, in this case from the early seventies. On paper, the Ventora estate recipe - basically stuffing a big 3.3-litre straight six into the rakish body of the FE Victor station wagon - promised to deliver a great combination of style, practicality and performance. But the old Vauxhall six was heavy and thirsty, and its power was unremarkable. Interesting car nevertheless.

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Another 1980s Vauxhall from last year’s Festival of the Unexceptional - the top of the range Senator, a rebadged version of the second-generation Opel Senator. Vauxhall had also previously sold the first generation Senator, but under the model name Royale. The Senator was well regarded but was not replaced.

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Today, more extraordinary ordinariness from last year’s Festival of the Unexceptional. This is a Vauxhall Nova four-door saloon. The Nova hatch was launched in 1982 and the saloon came along a couple of years later. In most European markets, this car was the first-generation Opel Corsa but Vauxhall reportedly thought the word Corsa carried unfortunate implications of coarseness. Later generations of the car were badged as Corsa in the UK as well.

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Dad told police ‘let’s get on with it’ after they looked in his Spider-Man rucksack

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