Originally shown at the 1966 Geneva Salon, the XVR was largely the work of David Jones, Vauxhall's charismatic head of design in the 1960s. Featuring gullwing doors, pop-up headlights and all-independent suspension, the XVR's unique dash treatment was used to test reaction to ideas he had for the later Firenza.

source: Vauxhall

The XRV two-seater that premiered in Geneva in March 1966 was the first Vauxhall concept car ever to be exhibited in public.“Uncompromising in its styling treatment”, the XRV showed “the future trend in world design” according to David Jones, the then Vauxhall’s Director of Styling. Most of all, it expressed the new means and power allocated to GM’s European design studios in the 1960s.

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