The Astra J VXR has already been foreshadowed by the all-new Astra, an Opel Astra K. The Insignia VXR will fade away as the Opel Insignia Grand Sport makes its way to Oz as the 2018 Holden NG ...

The hot version is the VXR, and we very much want one. But things aren't always that simple, and the Astra has a long and complicated history. The very first Astra was made by Vauxhall in 1979 (as ...

Cars like the Astra VXR won't be part of any fast Vauxhall future - so is now the time to try one? The storied history of fast Vauxhalls is an intriguing one. Once upon a time its quick saloons ...

Start with a Vauxhall/Opel/Chevrolet/Saturn Astra VXR, shed 100 kg by replacing metal with carbon fiber, then pump its 2.0-liter turbo engine to 297 hp (221.5 kW ...

Hot on the heels of the recently launched GTC, these are the first official pics of the new Astra VXR, which goes on sale next year and is set to become one of the most powerful cars in its class and ...

Opel and Vauxhall ditched the Astra OPC/VXR with the arrival of the Astra K generation, but the variant might return in a different formula with the new generation of the German compact hatchback.

In some aspects, it was the king of the segment. When GM’s design team made the VXR and the OPC versions of the Astra for England and Europe, respectively, these cars had to look far more ...

All that, and it’s still (Euro) street legal. Luton – With over 300PS generated from its 2.0-litre turbo engine, the Astra VXR EXTREME will be the most powerful front-wheel drive Vauxhall ever ...

What the Opel Astra OPC or, as it’s called in the UK, the Vauxhall Astra VXR, lacks in finesse and overall capabilities compared to its main rival, the VW Golf GTi, it more than compensates with ...

But the one I'd really want is its successor, the Vauxhall Astra VXR, a 279-horsepower hot hatch. Saturn may be long dead in the U.S., but the Astra soldiers on in Europe as the Vauxhall and Opel ...

Tuning company K-Tec have devised a tuning package that increases the peak power of the Renaultsport Twingo 133 to over 160bhp ...

Bloody fast, innit?’ That one phrase cropped up nearly every time someone borrowed the Astra VXR during its 15 months with us. Strangely, though, it was usually preceded by the speaker lowering ...