So far we only had a couple of heavily P’shopped photos of the stunning Opel/Vauxhall Astra OPC/VXR. Now check it out in some live pictures. Read More… This hot hatchback is a thing of beauty from every angle. The Astra used to be such a bland car that you could lose it in a supermarket [...]

Opel Vauxhall revealed today the hotted-up VXR (OPC) version of the gorgeous new Astra. It’s got 280 horsepower. Read More… At first glance it appears to be just like the previous Astra OPC, very beautiful, very powerful, but kinda edgy and hard to live with. The car has a tower of power in form of [...]

Eco driving is no longer dull and boring. This is the latest Vauxhall Astra ecoFLEX, and it does 76.3mpg with C02 emissions of just 99g/km. Read More… That means a total exemption from TfL’s Congestion Charge, as well as zero VED (Vehicle Excise Duty), inclusion in the lowest 13 per cent BIK (Benefit in Kind) [...]

Vauxhall announced a new version of the lovely new Astra equipped with smart Start/Stop system which returns an astonishing 62 mpg with CO2 emissions of 119g/km. Read More… The new Astra 2.0 CDTi owes a large part of its efficiency to the start/stop system as it improves fuel economy by over 5mpg or 13 percent [...]

Vauxhall decided iPads are not enough as an in-car computing needs. So they went one step  further and installed a rugged PC in the dashboard of the Astra! Mind you it’s not for everyone, just fleet customers. Read More… The computer they’ve put in the Astra is a Panasonic Toughbook CF-19, market-leading, rotating screen, convertible [...]

To match the value offered by VW and Ford, Vauxhall launched a new feature-rich ES Tech trim level for the Astra hatchback. What they’ve done basically is offering what you would normally find on the option list as standard. Read More… So the ES Tech comes as standard with a CD500 Satnav system (including CD [...]

Vauxhall, the British arm of Opel, released official pricing of the new Astra Sports Tourer which will go on sale later this year, and it undercuts the current model by over £500. Despite this, the new model comes with more kit as standard. Pricing for this models start form £16,575, which means the Sports Tourer [...]