But it isn't cheap. If that was true, the roads would be full of Dacia's. It's people who aren't interested in cars, who just assume Vauxhall is a good brand. Vauxhall have definitely missed a trick with the Mokka though, if only there was a VXR version with aggressive styling and the Corsa or Astra VXR engine...

It’s most certainly not cheap! lol

Most people don't care about cars. But they do care about badges. That's why they buy crap SUVs/crossovers from 'premium' brands. Everyone - rightly - criticises BMW these days, but they know marketing.

Also, if it wasn't for the fad of having a 'big car' that you sit high up in, people would just buy a cheaper hatchback instead of the same brand's crossover.

It's the equivalent of Peugeot🤣

I never knew it existed, if I did, I would hate it with a passion. This fugly pig is an identical twin to the Chevy Trax and the Buick Encore (really, Encore? Please not!) sold in the US market.

Wilfully bad cars like the Nissan Juke….

The 1990s Primeras were great cars, though! They drive really well... the Mokka is just really awful!

You’re right about it being cramped, I had to sit in the back of one of these with 2 other grown men, I should have walked. Bring back station wagons.

We used to have a fleet of them at Eurodollor. Brilliant handling machines especially in the GT guise with the sr20 engine. NISSAN at it's peak 😎@@richardharrold9736

The total lack of front end grip also negates any positive feeling from the steering

​@@FatHead1979 wonder if some geometry tweaks and fatter stickier tyres could sort that?

@@richardharrold9736 Not sure TBH, all I know is it was THE most understeery car I've ever driven.

@@FatHead1979 You should try driving a Smart FourTwo then 🤣

@@richardharrold9736 Poaching one of the Ford suspension designers will fix it. Or is it cost cutting? Designer says we need this setup to handle and for grip and they say cheaper... cheaper.... We can cut 5% and it grips 20% worse.. OK but CHEAPER!!! Who needs front end grip anyway? Maybe why I buy Ford because they handle and I can chuck it around and know when the front is going to let go.

I’ve seen it happen to other GM Korea products of the era, the Cruze comes to mind. I knew a Cruze owner, his door handle’s chrome trim peeled off. It’s a fairly rigid foil so can be sharp! Terrible engineering honestly

@@Ayanami_channel 'Cheap' would be a better description for that particular engineering decision.

Nothing any good came out of the Daewoo factory, GM paid a pittance to buy Daewoo, but ultimately producing cheap poorly engineered cars took its toll. The prices GM charged for these cheap as chips to manufacture cars is criminal.

I regulary fix the chrome peeling problem for my local Vauxhall dealer.....shiny black though, not chrome. Weird they way it shrivels up, more so on the left hand side too.

Also popular with families. As are crossovers in general. They basically replaced MPVs for that purpose after all

You don't get it, people want to "sit high". My wife is like that. She tries to come up with other justifications for liking SUVs and crossovers, for example saying they are "more comfortable to drive and travel in", but the real reason is the fact that she like to sit higher up. She has admitted it a few times, as well.

@@tob564 Oh, I agree entirely. People's egos like to be above others - it makes one feel (subconsciously) more important. People don't admit this because it seems silly.

@@tob564 But also, people think 'big' is better, and they care what others think above and beyond anything else, so they buy a car that's big on the outside.

Cue all the people say 'It's easier for the infirm to get in and out of'. So, why does everyone with kids have one? 'I need a big car for the children' - yes, children, those notoriously big people.

@@julianevans9548 A properly sized wagon is the perfect car regular families, unless there is a need for a third row. Wagons are cheaper, more economical, better to drive, have more room, and are (in my opinion) generally better looking. Just as an example, I'd take an Audi A6 wagon in a heartbeat before a Q5. I know for a fact my wife would disagree, and I do believe I am in the minority in general.

You've been lucky, most have problems that end up being expensive to fix....

​@stemartin6671 I think their god awful. I don't understand why anyone would choose one over the Astra J. Less practical, less economical, doesn't handle any near as good and more expensive. For the love of god, buy an Astra I guarantee it'll be better in all areas. That said, I understand what you say the Ford EcoSport thar worse, however even that isn't in same keague of awfulness as another Opel/Vauxhall line. Drum roll for the Crossland X.

@@michaeljames1468 yep. All the modern GM Vauxhalls and now the Stellantis Vauxhalls are a shambles. Wet belts, plastic coolant blocks, exhausts, EGR valves, DPFs, brake calipers, amongst many other components all made with the cheapest cost in mind, and over time these will be left in the scrapyard along with all the other Vauxhalls. A good name ruined by foreign corporations.

@@michaeljames1468 Funnily enough the car I previously wrote off was an Astra J. You are right it is a way better handling car but for space, my kids in the back reckon the Mokka better.

First of, breadvans are not real cars.

Couldn't agree more. Looks and drives great. The 1.6 CDTI is also incredible for MPG.

@@DutchEdgar yes they can get excellent Mpg’s when driven gently enough, I’ve got an Astra k 1.6 cdti. I had mine doing 79 mpg for a short period of time. I’ve got a focus 1.5 TDCI and the same is to be said with them. Really reliable, got great power, smooth and very economical!

But did you cover over 150,000 miles in those 3 years?

pillock

@@jemimallah2591 sound ar kid

The suspension and steering is set up for British roads, otherwise they are identical.

It’s so funny that you mention middle-aged and older people. It the United States it’s sold as a Buick and the exact same people buy them!

Literally only the badge, there are right-hand-drive Opels sold in Ireland.

Basically, all the Vauxhall counterparts tend to have had their chassis tuned to better suit British roads.

@@nlpnt Those Opels are also sold here in South Africa. People seem to really like these cars 🤣

20K miles? That's insane. Even 20K Kilometers is insane. Lots of modern cars naturally use oil due to the light 0 and 5 weight oils being too light (for fuel efficiency).

@@92c900t Yes I agree, but that’s what the manufacturer’s service interval was ( in the UK). Can still check the oil level in between, it never really used much oil, maybe required occasional top up.

Love how for Americans, this is 'subcompact'.

I’ve had a similar experience, those 1.4T Fam0 engines blow head gaskets routinely. Had one languishing in the shop until we finally sought to put a reman engine and get rid of it. With these Mokkas I’d only recommend the diesel or the 1.6i. Also avoid the autoboxes.

@@julianevans9548 I love the idea of needing "more ground clearance" from a city hatchback... emphasis on city.

I have a colleague whose Mokka blew a head gasket. She was then stupid enough to let a garage rip her off - they reskimmed the block and the cylinder head, which didn't in the slightest bit fix the problem before causing the car to overheat and coat everything with engine mayonnaise. This was before replacing it with yet another 1.4t Mokka, that she part exchanged at the garage which did the shoddy repair, and therefore knew of the car's troubled history and duly factoring into the price they offered. You just can't save some people. Even from themselves.

@@julianevans9548 It's the size of a medium sandwich for an American so why wouldn't it?

Yes ditto. And he doesn't need to be apologetic to the "petrolheads" either. Cars are for more than just showing off.

@@DutchEdgar But does such an ordinary car really need a 'review' ? It's a cheap, basic, ugly, slab of nothingness, it doesn't handle very well, it's slow, and the only people who are going to buy one are those who really could not give a shit about cars, and just want anything to get them from A to B. It's like buying a no-name Telly from Aldi, you know it's guaranteed for a year the same as most other brands, and you know it will basically do the same thing, it might look a bit crap, and not have the features of a better brand, but it was cheap and you just want something to watch telly on. You wouldn't spend weeks reading owners reviews about it, because they are pointless, you know it's going to be lacking in every area, and you don't care, you just want something which works. This is the same thing. To say that 'cars are for more than just showing off' is a bit sad really. Yes a very small minority buys an expensive car to 'show off', but they are less than 5% of all car buyers. Many people actually love buying a car for it's handling, or performance, it's not about showing off to anyone else, it's about going out on a Sunday morning on an empty road with nobody else around, to enjoy the driving by yourself. If you don't understand that 'love' for driving, then fair enough, but don't automatically think anyone who buys a slightly nicer car than this heap of shit, wants to 'show off' ffs, grow up man.

@@DjNikGnashers Sorry if I hit a nerve fella. Did I say that there was anything wrong with showing off? I just said that this isn’t a car to do it in, and nor should it be. It was made with a different (more practical) function in mind, as are most cars. It’s no worse than most of those cars, probably better than most. Like many here (the reviewer included) I actually think it handles quite nicely, it’s a fun drive. And "slow"? 0-60 in just under 10 seconds (for a 1.6 CDTI) is easily enough acceleration for most and if you are driving faster than 120 mph on our roads “on a Sunday morning” you probably shouldn’t have a licence. If all you need to satisfy your driving needs is something "fast" then do us all a favour and take up track racing and leave the roads to those of us whose lives require more versatile options.

@@DutchEdgar Your comment came across clearly. You may as well have just said 'people who buy expensive cars are only showing off' because that is how it read. Maybe English isn't your first language, and for that I can completely understand your mistake. The Mokka does not, and never will 'handle quite nicely', unless you are comparing it to a 1985 Land Rover Defender. I drove plenty of them when I worked in the motor trade, and they are about as far away from handling 'quite nicely' as you can get. 60 in 10 seconds these days is a lifetime. There is nothing wrong with slow, ugly, cheap, boring cars, AS I SAID IN MY COMMENT, the majority of buyers are not interested in sportiness, and just want something shit for basic A to B transport, nothing wrong with that, my point was, is there any need to review something like that. It's going to be no better or worse than any other cheap, boring, ugly, slow, shitbox from Ford, Peugeot, Renault, Fiat, etc... And you are wrong for the 4th time, top speed doesn't equal driving pleasure on a Sunday morning for me, it's all about acceleration, cornering, and braking on twisty, undulating, narrow country roads, where I can have great fun at well under the speed limit. So take your bullshit prejudice opinion of me and stick it right up your arse.

Really? Id place them the other way round... I still cannot fathom how one would walk into a dealership and go "yes, thats a good looking car"

I've got a cashcow! I love it. 4x4, full leather, heated windscreen, pan roof. 55mpg, plus, they are dirty cheap on parts and no one will ever nick it 😂 by the way, I have no interest in cars as such. Just want reliability and good mpg and cheap parts as I work on them myself. My other car is a 1942 ww2 jeep, so slightly different 😂

@@georgegently3026Great, just as long as you don’t want to carry anything in it or park in a reasonable sized space…. my sister / brother in law have one with the extra-squinty restyling and oversized wheels that burst the rubber band tyres on kerbs and leave you stuck in London until someone brings and fits a new tyre… They do like it for motorway trips to Cornwall, great for those country lanes ! The Juke is an utter abomination but the buyers have spoken….

Nissan Puke 1st... Stupid car.. Sold as a MPV/SUV to unwary buyers. I belong to a caravan forum and we got endless questions about how it will tow their caravan. Answer for the first cars released were its not going to tow your caravan at all. What you thought you were getting was a Range Rover equivalent and what you bought was a tiny Nissan Micra with big wheels.

As the owner of a 2011 Cashcow, I agree with this statement 😂🤣 - a soulless anti-tardis of a car with a useless boot.

no they sure as hell do not. For the ton of $ they shell out for a lousy econobox, they SHOULD DEMAND MUCH MORE>

Yeah, as an American, I can tell you that cars designed by American companies for the American market are almost always awful (excluding specialty cars such as muscle cars or pickups). This has been true for decades and a big reason the American companies lost so much market share to foreign companies in the US market.

​@@vehicles_n_stuff I'd still love a huge US body on frame wagon. Especially one of those GM clamshell tailgate monstrosities.

Nothing British about Vauxhall. We don't make or design any Vauxhall cars across here. So I can call the mokka a piece of sh## without feeling guilty which it is.

@@interceptor-ss8kb what has Britishness got to do with it? We do have JLR here and a lot of their stuff is really shit British engineering.

Same engine in a Meriva, must have been quite a zippy thing!!

Wash your mouth out lol. Not that I’m a fan of the Ecosport, but it’s based on the Fiesta which is a far better car than the Mokka.

@@jimmyjt16 the first generation was but only loosely. The drive was nowhere close and the interior was the same but in much worse plastics. I've travelled in a mocha and it seemed alright. Underpowered with the 1.6 non turbo and the ride wasn't great. Not driven one.

Wet timing belt goes snap, engine goes boom boom.

no way you think a 1.0 ecoboost engine is better than this @@jimmyjt16​

​@MiGujack3 that can occasionally happen but what usually happens is small bits of wet belt fall off and clog up the oil pump. No oil to the engine equals boom boom!

What a great response! I couldn't agree more. Vauxhall know how to sell millions of cars and have done so for over 100 years. So who knows best, a stupid journalist (or petrol head) or the public they want to sell loads to?

Vauxhalls are truly a does what it says on the tin car, I've ended up with loads over the years and never regretted. They're not special, but they're a fine place to be for not huge money. Also second that the Astra Elite is lovely

It's the same as films and food. Reviews are only personal opinion. If you like it you like it if you don't you don't. I've a qashqai. Want interested until I realized it tickled a lot of boxes for me. Got one and I love it. Don't care what anyone thinks.

I'm fortunate, I think, that my grandfather has always been a petrolhead. He's stocked himself up with enough Saabs to last out his remaining years (a 900 classic softtop, 9000 aero manual and 9-5 auto).

@@EnglishTMTB my grandad is/was very much a petrolhead. He always got the highest spec cars according to my dad. He had plenty of Rovers and Vauxhall’s that were the performance versions. He had an MG Maestro in top spec with all the toys including the digital dash (I think it talked as well if I remember correctly). This is from what I’ve been told by my dad though

Well, apart from the tyre thing...

"middle-aged women wearing yoga pants" - as if the interior wasn't already bad enough. 😆

Don’t forget a pair of pink Skechers

I would question "not really bad at anything" ... we had a Gen 1 as a hire car and it must have had the weakest of the available engines for the model ... I judged it to be so slow off the line as to be dangerous! Joining a main road at a T junction on a gradient and the thing just wouldn't pick up well enough. We were used to driving to driving a Fiesta so we're not comparing it with a sports car! We had reckoned we were getting a good deal by being offered the Mokka because we were intending to hire the smallest cheapest car available so our expectations were that it would be a welcome step up ... not so, we were also astonished to get into it and realise that it had zero additional inside space to the smaller Fiesta!

It exists because 99% of the people in the world just want a vehicle to move them from a to b and have absolutely no interest in what it looks like or how fast it is but they know that they want something that is lifted up and easy to get into. It always amazes me how short sighted some people are. Do you really think that they make it when it doesn’t sell? Just because you don’t want it doesn’t mean that nobody wants it.

I traded my fiesta for a Mokka when we got our second kid. The fiesta is just too small for a family. Not to mention the elevated driving position makes sense in a climate of loads of SUV's and pickups. We got T-boned by an X3 in my father in law's Mercedes and I'll tell you I feel much safer in a vehicle that is elevated higher, better visibility too.

If they had no interest in what it looked like@@ruk2023-- then why would they buy a Mokka, and not a Corsa or a Fiesta or a Leon? It's because of the jacked up looks that this thing sells.

Thank god you 'feel safer' @@SavedbyHim

@@markwood7045 The Mokka is a safer car than the fiesta. Once you've been in a serious accident and walked away you think about more than just having a "better drive". The Mokka has a dedicated chassis unlike the EcoSport which runs on a fiesta chassis.

I have a feeling that was a more refined replacement for the 1.7 DTI. My friend has a 1.6CDTi and it's 'ok' but his is a 65 plate so a fair but younger than this one.

true, you can have the same car as someone and it still be unique in its own ways

Said Stevie Wonder 😂