{"id":2190813,"date":"2026-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2190813"},"modified":"2026-10-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:00:00","slug":"vauxhalls-new-stx-concept-is-a-124mph-vision-of-a-future-estate-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2190813","title":{"rendered":"Vauxhall\u2019s new STX Concept is a 124mph vision of a future estate car"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the new Vauxhall STX. Clearly, it is not a production vehicle, but it is<\/em> a preview of stuff that could eventually make its way onto production vehicles.<\/p>\n

So, welcome back to the exceedingly strange world of concept cars! As Top Gear\u2019s Sam Philip noted a while back<\/a>, it\u2019s a weird car industry affectation (\u2018here\u2019s a cool thing we\u2019ll never build but might pinch the rear lights from, enjoy!\u2019), but we\u2019ll run with it because a) it looks cool, and b) it\u2019s an estate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hence why it wears the \u2018ST\u2019 badge (Sports Tourer). As you know it also wears Vauxhall\u2019s new griffin logo<\/a>, an update to the company\u2019s \u2018Vizor\u2019 face \u2013 it\u2019s now \u201cbolder, taller, and more prominent\u201d \u2013 and boasts many angles and sharp creases.<\/p>\n

So many creases, you\u2019ll yearn for an iron. The roofline gently slopes back, features a small pair of indents on the rear quarters, there are short overhangs and a taut shape, flared arches, and \u201cthree section\u201d wheels that doff their alloys caps to the ones on the old Nova and Corsa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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There\u2019s some active aero dotted around the body, and while we\u2019ve not been shown any images (yet) of the inside, we\u2019re assured it will feature lightweight seats, \u201cimmersive lighting elements\u201d and an \u2018experience\u2019 first seen in the mad Corsa Vision GT<\/a> thing.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, the \u2018124mph\u2019 bit. It\u2019ll apparently do 124mph. Via\u2026 electricity. How much electricity we do not yet know, but allow us to refer you back to paragraph 1 (it\u2019s a concept).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe STX Concept previews the future development of the estate body style and introduces design elements that will appear on future Vauxhall models,\u201d it said. Once more, which ones and where, we do not yet know.<\/p>\n

We do<\/em> know that despite closing its historic Luton plant last year<\/a> \u2013 ending more than 120 years of carmaking in the town \u2013 Vauxhall recently reported an uptick in sales versus last year. To date, it\u2019s shifted 91,105 cars and vans, compared to 87,610 at this point in 2025 \u2013 a seven per cent increase.<\/p>\n

Naturally the STX won\u2019t ever be made \u2013 because concept cars! \u2013 but would you be tempted into a Vauxhall if it looked something<\/em> like this?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the new Vauxhall STX. Clearly, it is not a production vehicle, but it is a preview of stuff that could eventually make its way onto production vehicles. So, welcome back to the exceedingly strange world of concept cars! As Top Gear\u2019s Sam Philip noted a while back, it\u2019s a weird car industry affectation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2190813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}