Vauxhall Cavalier GSi 16V C20XE Review

Good Points
Performance and handling, understated body kit (standard).

Bad Points
Rust - rear arches, top of front and rear w/screens.

General Comments
I had my Vauxhall Cavalier GSi for about 6 years, put about 100k miles on it, but it was still going strong when I let it go. It was diamond black and completely standard, except for a Magnex s/s exhaust.

As you probably know, the GSi was basically a Cav CD with attitude, so you had a nice trim level with a lot of grunt.

My car developed a very nasty fault, it would just cut out at any random moment - very scary in the outside lane of the motorway? Then it would take some time to restart. It was in the (Vauxhall) garage for about 2 weeks when I decided I probably wasn't going to get it back on the road so I bought a Nissan Primera 2.0 SE. Big mistake - lots of toys like heated leather seats, electric everything - but I did not enjoy driving it at all.

The the garage said they had found the problem - the immobiliser had gone screwy and was randomly cutting in, resulting in the engine cutting out. I would have thought they could have found this earlier. So I got the car back minus the immobiliser and decided to sell it.

I let it go to my brother so that I could get it back when he wanted to sell it. Unfortunately it was not to be, after the car had been broken into a few times outside his house it developed a few electrical faults and he eventually had it towed and scrapped.

So if anyone wants to sell a diamond black GSI 2wd with a/c let me know...