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Vauxhall Astra GTE: Ben Barry on his first hot hatch

Vauxhall Astra GTE: Ben Barry on his first hot hatch

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Ben Barry, 18 June 2012 11:12

Last year, my parents’ home caught fire. No-one died or anything, and the fire brigade caught the blaze before the whole place burned down, but there was some pretty significant damage, so my folks took the decision to gut the house and start again. This was a significant event for me, because I’d lived in that house since 1976 and, ...

Why Vauxhall should be more about RAKe than Adam

Why Vauxhall should be more about RAKe than Adam

Rated 4 out of 54

Greg Fountain, 10 May 2012 11:55

Vauxhall has called its new city car Adam. Pause for cynicism. On the face of it, this is plain silly, a clumsy lurch towards cutesy personalisation in the face of wave after wave of the meaninglessly generic names/numbers favoured by pretty much everybody else. Is Meriva, for example, more or less silly than Adam? Is Focus? Is Golf? How about ...

Driving the Route Napoleon in historic Vauxhalls

Driving the Route Napoleon in historic Vauxhalls

Rated 4 out of 54

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 19 March 2012 09:00

Recipe for epic road trip: take four decades worth of Vauxhalls, from the legendary Droopsnoot Firenza to the latest Insignia, add Europe’s most awesome driving road (the Route Napoleon) and set yourself for the 200-mile trip from Cannes to Grenoble. That was our task. What a weekend! Napoleon gave his name to the route – courtesy of his flight from ...

Phil McNamara: my 2012 Car of the Year verdict

Phil McNamara: my 2012 Car of the Year verdict

Rated 3 out of 53

Phil McNamara, 05 March 2012 14:30

Toyota Yaris0 points The Yaris has regressed from peppy millennium Car of the Year to an efficiently-packaged Honda Jazz-clone; it’s not remotely class-leading. Citroën DS51 point There’s much to love about the DS5: the sensational exterior design and high-quality cabin, a family car emitting 99g/km of CO2. But until the engineers develop cars with steering and ride as proficient as ...

The winners and losers from GM and Peugeot-Citroën’s alliance

The winners and losers from GM and Peugeot-Citroën’s alliance

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Phil McNamara, 02 March 2012 10:59

The alliance between General Motors and Peugeot Citroën (PSA) was met with a resounding shoulder shrug by the financial markets, and some skepticism from analysts. PSA’s stock closed almost 4% down on 1 March, the first day of trading after the announcement, while GM’s share price was flat on the day the deal went public. The Financial Times’ Lex column ...

Vauxhall's Astra good, whopping blindspot bad

Vauxhall's Astra good, whopping blindspot bad

Rated 3 out of 53

Tim Pollard, 20 November 2009 09:29

Just driven the new Vauxhall Astra for the first time – really liked it. Ours was the 1.4 turbo, which I found to be very well built, stylish and a satisfying drive: nice steering, a well damped ride and a well conceived package. The downsized 1.4 feels a little breathless, if I'm being honest, but on balance the new Astra ...

Why Gavin Green supports GM’s U-turn of keeping Opel/Vauxhall

Why Gavin Green supports GM’s U-turn of keeping Opel/Vauxhall

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 09 November 2009 09:35

I am very pleased that General Motors has changed its mind and kept Vauxhall and Opel, and not just because it annoys the German government. The proposed sale to a Russian-Canadian consortium would, in due course, have created a Russian General Motorski. Long term, I suspect there would have been no jobs left in Ellesmere Port, Luton, Russelsheim or anywhere ...

Is Vauxhall’s future any safer under GM?

Is Vauxhall’s future any safer under GM?

Rated 2 out of 52

Greg Fountain, 05 November 2009 17:32

GM’s opportunistic decision to hang on to its European assets sticks in the craw. You can understand that the American bosses would wish to stop Magna getting its hands on Vauxhall and Opel and then immediately benefiting from a €3bn handout from the German government. And once the EU had intervened to establish the principle that such a sweetener should ...

Saving Vauxhall Opel has echoes of MG Rover

Saving Vauxhall Opel has echoes of MG Rover

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 23 September 2009 23:33

What a striking coincidence! The publication of the lengthy, expensive and utterly predictable government report on MG Rover’s failure coincided with the (German) government’s bail-out of GM Europe. The MG Rover inquiry took four years and cost £16 million and concluded what everyone already knew. Namely, four Brummie businessmen, way out of their depth, had little chance of reviving a ...

GM and why Britain must stop the brain drain

GM and why Britain must stop the brain drain

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 03 June 2009 10:23

All jobs are important but some jobs are more important to a nation than others. The German government isn’t investing billions in Opel simply to keep thousands of blue-collar workers in jobs screwing cars together. (Although that is part of the reason.) Any nation, with a moderately well educated (and preferably inexpensive) workforce can assemble cars. And when the pressure ...

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