Vauxhall Antara 2011-2015 | WATCH BEFORE YOU BUY!!
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Jonathan Crouch writes an in-depth Vauxhall Antara 2011-2015 review. If you want to watch more reviews on vehicles like this Vauxhall Antara 2011-2015, make sure to SUBSCRIBE to our channel and comment what YOU want us to review next.
Vauxhall's Antara won't be the first car that springs to mind if you're looking for a decent, stylish and practical 5-seat SUV from the 2011 to 2015 era, something more capable than a Ford Kuga but less extreme than a Land Rover Freelander. But if that is your buying brief, the heavily revised version of this model that appeared in 2011 could be worth considering.
History
The era of the affordable, road-orientated compact 4x4 is a pretty recent one, broadly traceable back to the early Nineties when buyers bored of family hatchbacks sought solace in SUVs. These people would have liked to be able to afford a Land Rover Discovery or one of the smaller Toyota Land Cruisers, but they couldn't, so most of them bought a Vauxhall instead, a crude, boxy Isuzu-engineered device called the Frontera which sold here in prodigious numbers following its launch in 1991. This should have been a springboard for Vauxhall to dominate the RAV4 and Freelander sector just as it was taking off at the turn of the century - but it wasn't. The brand didn't develop the Frontera, they inexplicably failed to replace it at its demise in 2004 and it took until 2007 for the Griffin badge to return to SUV motoring in the shape of this car, the Antara.
Even then, the mistakes kept coming. This Korean-built car had, it turned out, been developed for the undemanding Asian market rather than the more exacting European one, which meant that it struggled amongst Freelander folk, refinement, handling and overall finish way down on what buyers in this segment had come to expect. It all had to change - and it did (a bit) with this post-2011 facelifted version.
By then, new brooms at GM had shaken out the old complacency, wresting product development control of models like this back from their Korean division and creating in the Antara a smarter, better finished product that in this form was supposed to be quieter to ride in and better to drive. Buyers were unconvinced, quality problems plagued the product and it was quietly dropped from the Vauxhall line-up in early 2016.
Writer - Jonathan Crouch
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