Well, I’ve just got back from Millbrook Proving Ground where I attended the launch of the 2009 Vauxhall Astra, courtesy of an invite from the guys and girls over at Torque Astra .
What a blast! Millbrook is like a giant playground for drivers, featuring some great sections of road and the awesome high speed bowl. While it’s great fun for drivers it’s not so much fun for the cars themselves. With areas such as ‘Kerb Strike Simulation’, ‘Pot Hole’, ‘Belgian Paving’ and the ominous... Read Full Story
Vauxhall is well known for its sports saloons. The Lotus Carlton has gone into the history books as a supercar beater and various turbocharged Cavaliers and Vectras have turned a generation of petrolheads onto the brand. Read Full Story
2008 VAUXHALL VXR8 SPORT CAR Based on the Australian Holden VE HSV Clubsport R8, the 2008 VXR8 is the aboriginal VXR archetypal offered with an automated gearbox. The car comes able with a new 6.2L (6162cc) V8 powerplant, which develops up to 431 application at 6000 rpm. This agent can be additionally commutual with a chiral transmission. The starting amount for the 2008 VXR8 is about £35,500. Read Full Story
The VXR8 Bathurst is another one of those heavily Australian cars. It is a bit of a duplication of the Bathurst cars used in the Bathurst 1000, one of the most famous races in Australia. Held in the mid-country town of Bathurst. Wow, a lot of Bathurs .. Read Full Story
The new sixth-generation Vauxhall/Opel Astra five-door hatchback hit dealer showrooms in Europe on Saturday, with 45,000 units having already been ordered by customers since September, the company said.
The Astra is GM Europe’s most important model and success is critical for the long-term future of the brand. The fifth-generation of the compact contributed sales of some [...]
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The Vauxhall Astra is the UK’s favourite used car according to Motorpoint. The perennially-popular small family car, which arrived on our roads in 1980 with the current version (the mark 5) being the clear winner in terms of used car sales between July and September 2009 at the car supermarket giant, which sells 44,000 new [...]
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With 45,000 pre-orders since September, it doesn’t seem like General Motor Co.’s new sixth-generation Opel/Vauxhall Astra five-door hatchback would have a problem with sales. The model arrived at dealer showrooms in Europe last Saturday, upping the excitement further.
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Buick gets a European sports sedan. Seriously, this thing will be built in Germany.
Hey, remember the 1992–1995 Skylark? Remember the nose it had? That lackluster automobile serves as a prime example of the old Buick, which pumped out cars with quality and styling so substandard we wanted to cry. Fortunately for Buick’s customers, crap cars don’t appear to be on the menu anymore, and the handsome design and high quality seen on the latest LaCrosse likely will carry over to the brand... Read Full Story
Working in Car insurance it's really quite sad when a famous marque goes to the wall. It's even sadder when it's a British one! So it's great news that Vauxhall Motors will not just be appearing on the classic car insurance list in the future! As a kid I remember my first ride in a vauxhall viva and later buzzing around in my mate's Astra sri and later still in an excellent Vauxhall Cavalier 2.0 company car provided by General Accident. I've never actually owned owned one... hey! but I love... Read Full Story
Filed under: Hatchbacks, Opinion/Editorial, Chevrolet, Vauxhall The UK is a brand-conscious nation. We care about the labels on our clothes, the make of TV we have on the wall of our living room, even the newspaper we read. We particularly care about the badge on the front of our cars - reliability and fRead More... Read Full Story
