The Vauxhall Chevette is a 2/4-door sedan (car) / saloon / 3-door hatchback / 3-door Station wagon / estate / 3-door van from Vauxhall, built from 1975 to 1984, as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry. Under the bonnet: 1256 .
Where it came from
The Vauxhall Chevette is a supermini car that was manufactured by Vauxhall in the United Kingdom from 1975 to 1984. It was Vauxhall's version of the "T-Car" small-car family from Vauxhall's parent General Motors (GM), and based primarily on the Opel Kadett C.
The family also included the Isuzu Gemini in Japan, the Holden Gemini in Australia, the Chevrolet Chevette in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Argentina, and in the U.S. and Canada it was also rebadged as the Pontiac Acadian/Pontiac T1000.
Under the skin
Power comes from 1256 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 4-speed manual 5-speed manual / 3-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
In context
Its family tree is legible: its successor was the Vauxhall Astra / Vauxhall Nova / Bedford Astravan (vans); assembly was at Bedfordshire, Luton. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the BMW 3 Series, the Volkswagen Polo, the Hyundai Pony — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Vauxhall catalogue sit the Vauxhall 10-4 and the Vauxhall 30/98.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Vauxhall Chevette has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.