Keep it cool

Vivaro GS looks flash but not so bold in cold

- COLIN GOODWIN

Hot vans are a thing. Not so much tuned engines and big performance, but vans that are dressed up to look fast. Like the Ford Transits built by an outfit called MS-RT, which builds cool machines with snazzy alloys and bodykits that cost the fat end of forty grand.

When we’ve written about these machines I wonder if there’s enough people around who want to spend serious money on such a thing, but then months later I’ll start to see them regularly on the road.

If people like to drive cool vans, then it seems likely that in the future there will be similarly customised electric vans.

Vauxhall is clearly of the same opinion and is getting off the blocks first with this Vivaro GS.

Already the best-selling electric van in the UK, the Vivaro Electric ( formerly known as Vivaro E, its name changed recently to emphasise its electricness) features a 75kWh battery feeding energy to a 136PS electric motor driving the front wheels.