Vauxhall Adam Rocks: Silly Name, Silly Car

It's irritating enough that Vauxhall sells a car called the 'Adam', but now it has turned the irritation up to 11 by unveiling this: the Vauxhall Adam Rocks. Really, Vauxhall, really? It doesn't even have a whole lot of substance to justify the silly name.

It's apparently an 'urban mini-crossover' that will rival cars like the recently unveiled Fiat Panda Cross. Unlike the Panda Cross, though, the Adam Rocks is front-wheel drive only. So essentially what you're getting is a jacked up city car with some nasty grey cladding, or a 'rugged outdoor look' as the press release excitedly tells us.

What it does have is a full-length folding canvas roof. Quite why this 'urban mini crossover' was given such a feature, I'm not sure. The whole thing reminds me of the Rover Streetwise, which was also a jacked-up hatchback festooned in hard-wearing grey plastic. As with the Adam Rocks, that car was accompanied by painful PR nonsense, including it being labelled an 'urban on-roader.'

The Adam Rocks will make its debut at next month's Geneva motor show. It'll be available with Vauxhall's new 1.0-litre turbocharged three-pot petrol in 89bhp and 113bhp flavours, or a four cylinder petrol in either 1.2-litre or 1.4-litre forms.