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PERFORMANCE: This is the manufacturer’s claimed acceleration time for a car, and is measured from 0-60mph or 0-62mph (0-100km/h), in seconds. ECONOMY/EMISSIONS/RANGE: Combined WLTP economy in miles pe
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It has become an all too familiar tale in this era of new technology: a new company emerges from nowhere, boasts of an amazing car and promises that production will begin very soon – and then goes sus
IT has now been 45 years since the Vauxhall Astra appeared on Britain’s roads – the original arrived in 1980, picking up where the Viva left off. We’ve since had eight generations, and most have been
John-Joe Vollans assesses the evolution of the hot hatch through two very different examples