Vauxhall does not build many cars like the Vauxhall Firenza: a 2-door coupé 3-door wagon with 1971, built from 1970 to 1975 as the oil crises and the first emissions rules rewired the industry.
How it came about
The Firenza is a model of car offered by Vauxhall from May 1971 until 1975. It was a development of the Viva, but had a distinctive coupé body style (fastback) and only two doors. In South Africa, it was sold as the Chevrolet Firenza until it was replaced by the Chevrolet 1300/1900 during 1975. Its name is derived from Firenze, the name of the Italian city known in English as Florence.
The hardware
Under the skin sits 1971; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. The gearbox is a 4-speed manual all-synchromesh, 5-speed ZF manual all-synchromesh on HP Firenza. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Vauxhall's history is not in doubt: the Opel Manta followed it; it was built at Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Suzuki Jimny, the Chevrolet Impala, the American Motors Corporation AMC Gremlin. Its Vauxhall stablemates include the Vauxhall 10-4 and the Vauxhall 30/98.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Vauxhall Firenza — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.