It has been announced that the next generation five-door Vauxhall Astra hatch will be unveiled at next year’s Frankfurt motor show.
Miserly fuel consumption is one of the makers’ promises that will come with the new car, but no expense has been spared with some of the technical innovations that are likely to make it [...]
Drawing inspiration from its record-breaking British Touring Car Championship team, Vauxhall has announced that it is to launch a VXR styling pack for the Astra TwinTop.
Combining cutting edge design with VXR high performance appeal, the pack contains a deep front spoiler skirt, side sills, rear spoiler and lower spoiler skirt.
This latest accessory pack [...]
A temporary production plant in St Petersburg has begun to output Opel Astras, using kits from the German Bochun plant. It plans to produce 25,000 cars this year.
The new permanent assembly plant will cost $300 million, or 203 million euros, and will open at the end of 2008.
GM’s European president, Carl-Peter Forster, said in [...]
The Vauxhall Astra was the most popular car bought at retail outlets in Britain during October.
Some 8,804 people picked up the vehicle, while the brand sold 24,398 new cars overall - close to 2,500 more than its closest rival.
Compared to figures from the same period last year, Vauxhall has gained 1.62 per cent in [...]
General Motors (GM) has claimed that it is "doing everything possible" to minimise the energy used to produce the Vauxhall Astra at its Ellesmere Port production plant in Cheshire.
The manufacturer claims that, while there is an emphasis on reducing the impact of driving on the environment, there is little attention paid to the way [...]