New compact crossover offers square-jawed style for an affordable price – but is there any more to it?
With the new Vauxhall Frontera, the British brand has set a bold ambition: to return to the UK’s top three best-selling car makers.An Astra-sized crossover available with either hybrid or electric power, it’s being thrust right into one of the hottest battlegrounds in today’s market.The ace up the Frontera’s sleeve is its bargain price: this hybrid version is one of the cheapest seven-seaters available on the market. The Frontera Electric goes even lower, thanks to a £1500 government grant.Mind you, the hybrid is still a few grand more than the closely related Citroën C3 Aircross (due to that car being available as a pure petrol with a manual gearbox) and on par with the notably larger Dacia Bigster.
Source: Autocar
