vauxhall astra VXR

The VXR Official Race Briefing From Vauxhall

August 11, 2008

Well, as I’ve documented all progress and information received so far, here’s the official race briefing.  I was glad to receive it and find out I had a later race (I’m quite a way from Scotland so an early race would have been terrible) but now that I have the actual briefing I’m a little [...]

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The New Vauxhall Astra VXR

June 28, 2008

If you’re desperate for a lovely hot hatch in the form of a Vauxhall Astra VXR, it might be worth waiting just a little bit longer (either for a new or used one). The reason for that is there’s a new model coming our way, due in 2010. Naturally, it’ll offer improvements over the last, [...]

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A Scary Volvo

June 19, 2008

No, you’re right, there’s no such thing.  Volvo is, well, Volvo.  The name brings up thoughts of lights that come on far too early by themselves, big estates and cars that are safe and frankly extremely dull.  This makes the new R-Design vehicles and the C30 T5 quite an interesting proposition.  Unfortunately however they don’t [...]

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Do You Want To Be A Racing Driver?

May 25, 2008

Racing drivers have some very particular attributes, one of which is obviously the ability to drive at considerable speed without crashing – as well as avoiding being overtaken by people with similar levels of skill.  Here in the UK, there are a lot of people who think that they can drive – an even greater [...]

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