Vauxhall Cavalier SRi

[badgx]

Anyone remember this car i remember driving this SRi version in this exact colour. It was a fast enjoyable car with excellent driver feedback through both the clutch, brake pedals and steering. It was also a thirsty car for its size. Very fun car, wouldn't mind going on a nostalgic drive

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[badgx]

Currently on auction

1984 Vauxhall Cavalier SRI

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They are got its rival. The Sierra XR4

1986 Ford Sierra XR4x4

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[SpikyMikey]

Anyone remember this car i remember driving this SRi version in this exact colour. It was a fast enjoyable car with excellent driver feedback through both the clutch, brake pedals and steering. It was also a thirsty car for its size. Very fun car, wouldn't mind going on a nostalgic drive

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The Recaros that Vauxhall fitted at the time to their SR/SRi trim level cars were great seats.

 

[HappytalkAgain]

Great memories but poor cars really (by todays standards.)

Dad had the XR4x4 which we all thought was the bees knees.

Then he got a Sierra Sapphire 2000e which (again, at the time) was pure luxury.

 

[Darrell]

My dad had one as a company car on a X plate which he bought and gave to my mum. I drove it quite a lot when I was 19 or 20. I think it was the GLS version.
My brother took it over and smashed it up.

 

[DanE350cdi]

My mate has a black Cav Sri on an E plate, I will get a pic next time I visit.

 

[ALFAitalia]

There is a very clean white one like in the OP a few houses along from my sons school...........He likes his old stuff as he also has a MK1 Cav like this and a very clean early Xr3i.
The Mk 2 SRI was ok....nothing more.....jumping into a Golf GTI straight after (as I often did when I took SRI's in PX back in the day) and even at the time they felt primitive in comparison.

 

[Darrell]

There is a very clean white one like in the OP a few houses along from my sons school...........He likes his old stuff as he also has a MK1 Cav like this and a very clean early Xr3i.
The Mk 2 SRI was ok....nothing more.....jumping into a Golf GTI straight after (as I often did when I took SRI's in PX back in the day) and even at the time they felt primitive in comparison.

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Dad had one of those as well. OPP 941P.

It was an auto which we went down to the South of France in. 2 adults and 3 young kids. We couldn’t find a hotel for the overnight stop so we kipped in it in a lay-by near Auxerre.
Dad woke us up by stinking the car out with a Benson and Hedges about 6 in the morning.

The good old days.

 

[Benzowner]

I had a 1.6GL cavalier back in the day as a company car, I remember the advert, "Drives like a 2 litre" Well, coming from a MkIII Escort 1.6GL it was slow and IMO drove more like a 1.3. I complained about the performance on it's first service 1500, miles then I think, and they could find no fault at all, had the bloody thing for 3 years

 

[markjay]

I had this one (file photo):

 

[Darrell]

I had this one (file photo):

Wicked motors. The old man had one of these on a A plate. It came from his bosses son who left the firm. All of a sudden we had a cool dad.

I debadged it and stuck a Maze & Frankie Beverley sticker in the rear window.

This car also went to the S of F and dad took for a lap on the Paul Ricard circuit complete with 2 kids and a roof rack!!

It eventually got chopped it for a new F plate Carlton CDi and that cool dad suddenly became tepid.

 

[Ted]

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Anyone remember this car i remember driving this SRi version in this exact colour. It was a fast enjoyable car with excellent driver feedback through both the clutch, brake pedals and steering. It was also a thirsty car for its size. Very fun car, wouldn't mind going on a nostalgic drive

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Great cars.

One of my PE teachers had one in precisely that spec.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

My first car was a Nova SR. Absolutely loved it.

 

[SpikyMikey]

My first car was a Nova SR. Absolutely loved it.

I need to go rummaging in the loft to find the Kodacolor of my white Nova SR.
Are those are Astra GTE convertible wheels on yours Mr D?

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I need to go rummaging in the loft to find the Kodacolor of my white Nova SR.
Are those are Astra GTE convertible wheels on yours Mr D?

I’d love to see if!

They used to be referred as LXi wheels back in the day as they came as standard fitment on the contemporary Cavalier LXi but they did appear on a few other cars.

I bought them from my Mom’s milkman who had them fitted on his grey Nova GTE and he used to come in it to collect the milk money on a Thursday night.

His car was big part of what inspired me to get a Nova. He decided to sell it a couple weeks after I bought my SR and the day I had fitted brand new Michelins all round.

Buying his car would have been going a bit too far, but I managed to justify in my own mind that buying his wheels and another brand new set of tyres was worthwhile!

 

[slade1]

Had 2 MK11 Cavaliers GL and GLSI. Cracking cars, would like one now, no room.

 

[SpikyMikey]

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That takes me back!
At the time of that newspaper ad my father was looking for a new company car and a Cavalier SRi was on the approved list.
Disappointed doesn't come close to describing how I felt when he came home from work one evening with his shiny new 'Polizei Blue' B2 Passat Estate.

 

[Londonscottish]

My dad had one as a company car on a X plate which he bought and gave to my mum. I drove it quite a lot when I was 19 or 20. I think it was the GLS version.
My brother took it over and smashed it up.

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I was working in Brum for a few months in the early 90s and had one of them as a pool car. I negotiated my time so I'd work an hour longer Mon-Thu and knock off early on a Friday. Every Friday 1.00pm on the nose I'd be hitting the M6 on full throttle either heading south to London or North to Edinburgh.

It was a car built to pound the motorways so was good at that. What was surprising was how good it was up the Devil's Beeftub (A701) through the Scottish Borders.

A few years later i had a Mk3 CDX for a while when I was waiting for my 200SX. It was basically an SRI with posh bits and, again. surprisingly good.

I had a right hound in the middle which a Mk3 GL in rep spec with the most awful dampers but, with the right suspension, there was nothing wrong with these.

 

[Wolfie1]

I used to have a c reg green cavalier sri 130 saloon years ago, 1 day it put a conrod through the block, still started and drove albeit with less power and a lot more noise