There’s something about a convertible car that sparks off all sorts of glamorous images: of blatting along the Cote d’Azur with a sophisticated brunette clad in Chanel headscarf and shades. The realit...
When the Mark 4 Astra range was launched in February 1998, it was heralded as a sure sign that Vauxhall was turning things around, developing cars that would appeal to real people with real money in t...
The Vauxhall Astra has been the company’s staple family car for longer than most can remember. It’s the post-1991 shape Astra onwards that we concentrate on here. There’s plenty of choice on the secon...
All too often buying a convertible on a budget means having to put up with ropey handling, pram-like dumpy looks and a hood with more perforations than a tea bag. The Vauxhall Astra Convertible repres...
Peugeot will claim that it brought the folding hard-top roof to the mass market with its 206 CC but it was Vauxhall that made the technology affordable on a car without a grossly distended bottom. For...
Peugeot will claim that it brought the folding hard-top roof to the mass market with its 206 CC but it was Vauxhall that made the technology affordable on a car without a grossly distended bottom. For...
Peugeot will claim that it brought the folding hard-top roof to the mass market with its 206 CC but it was Vauxhall that made the technology affordable on a car without a grossly distended bottom. For...
Peugeot will claim that it brought the folding hard-top roof to the mass market with its 206 CC but it was Vauxhall that made the technology affordable on a car without a grossly distended bottom. For...
Although it’s hardly the most exciting car on the market, Vauxhall’s Astra Estate is a model that deserves recognition. In squaring away the fundamentals well, it offers a wagon that drives small but ...
With the Mark 4 Astra range, Vauxhall waved goodbye to dodgy build quality, mediocre dynamics and pudgy styling. Make no mistake, this Astra was as much of an advance over its predecessor as Ford’s Fo...
Vauxhall’s Astra has long been a car that suffers a slight inferiority complex compared to its Ford equivalents, the Escort and, latterly, the Focus. No longer. The fifth generation Astra is the car t...
With compact estate cars now coming back into vogue a little more, it’s easy to forget quite what a tough time Vauxhall’s Astra estate faced. Launched just in time to coincide with the boom in popular...