What is it?
You're looking at GM's most important car this year, the new B-segment Vauxhall Mokka, due to hit British showrooms just before Christmas and set to sell widely across Europe. Small soft-roaders are booming like nothing else; they already take 2.5 per cent of European sales and are fast heading for three per cent. GM is sick of standing by, watching the success of the relatively few class contenders taking the rewards, chief among them the Skoda Yeti and the class-leading Nissan Juke.
Vauxhall bosses can hardly wait to get the Mokka, now in the throes of final testing, on the market. They think it has terrific prospects: it is larger than Juke and not so much smaller than Nissan's even more successful Qashqai in the class above. With its big pool of customers and wide dealer spread, Vauxhall reckons it has a good chance of attracting both hot-to-trot B-segment customers and quite a few downsizers as well.
Though much of its detail engineering has been done in Europe, the basic car was created in Korea and will be built there using new GM world-car architecture, soon to be picked up soon by Chevrolet and Buick. Three engines will be offered in Mokka at launch in the UK: a 1.4 petrol turbo four (138bhp), a 1.6 normally aspirated petrol four (114bhp) and a 1.7 turbodiesel (129bhp).
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tuga
Mokka
PAA
Honestly, I liked the
Honestly, I liked the Chevy-brother's design a lot better than the Vauxhall but will its driving dynamics be able to match Vauxhall's? The sure thing is that I prefer both over the Nissans and the Skoda.
2xtrouble
Interesting
Could be a contender to replace the A3 next year especially if room for two dogs in back. Juke is out because of that. Yeti could be a possibility too.
Audi A3 2.0TDi S-Line / Subaru Legacy Tourer
TegTypeR
For me the styling is a bit
For me the styling is a bit generic but that is what I am going to guess will attract most of this cars potential audience. Where as the Juke is challenging, the Yeti is rugged and almost utilitarian, this is quite conventional - which will appeal more to the masses.
I hope this will be a sales hit for Vauxhall / Opel because on the whole it seems to be a good product and as a company they need a boost at the moment.
On a side note, I much prefer the Opel nose on this to the renderings I have seen with the awful chrome Vauxhall lump stuck on. Vauxhall should really re-think their grill.
It's all about the twisties........
alan trustman
TegTypeR wrote: ...On a side
teg - the Vauxhall grille is identical, bar the actual roundel being a Griffin, not a lightning bolt. The aesthetics of an all-black grille with a chrome insignia may open a whole other debate... The Long 'V' grille disappeared a while back.
Bluerims24
The Grill
I do concur with previous comments, the "Grill" does suit that of the Opel design rather than that of the Griffin! If this were to change to represent flight along with Opels bolt, the attraction may gather the shifting cross country (4x4) traveler.
Fidji
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I can't see why anyone would buy this ugly heap over a Yeti, or even a Juke.
superstevie
The reason the juke and yeti
The reason the juke and yeti do well is because they have a usp. The juke looks challenging and is a statement. The yeti is a practical no nonsense car that actually has a touch of class to its looks.
The mokka has neither of these. It's all a little bland, generic even. I'm sure that will appeal to plenty, but not to me.
ordinary bloke
Some people need practicality
........which rules out the Juke on some important counts - namely the priority of style over function at the back where the boot space is insufficient for a larger dog, which must be a need for many of its potential customers, whereas this Mokka looks far better. The Juke is also disappointingly cramped and grim when sitting in the rear, in my view.
I Like the Yeti very much, but this looks as though it might be a very worthy competitor for those who don't want a mini-LandRover look-a-like.
Good luck to Vauxhall with this.
Enjoying a Fabia VRs - affordable performance
superstevie
I agree it is tight in the
I agree it is tight in the back of the Juke, but Nissan will no doubt point out that if you want more space, buy the cashcow. It isn't a priority for a lot of people, but I appreciate that for some it is
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