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Vauxhall is aiming to supplant Ford as the UK’s top-selling carmaker with the help of the new Corsa, along with Mokka and new Insignia. The company is currently second in the sales charts with 159,047. Speaking to Auto Express, Vauxhall chairman and managing director, Duncan Aldred said: “Yes, I want to be number one. I want to be number one in retail [private sales] and I want to be number on...

28Posted: 28th Oct 2013

Insigina Country Tourer prices revealed

Vauxhall has announced pricing for its Country Tourer, its new 4x4 variant of the Insignia estate. The 163bhp 2.0-litre diesel will cost from £25,349 when it arrives in the UK in January. An additional £1,150 gets you the Nav version, which includes an 8-inch touchscreen system. Vauxhall is also offering the aut...

28Posted: 28th Oct 2013

Insignia: good just got better

The Daily Telegraph’s Andrew English says the “good” Insignia “just got better” in his review of the revised Vauxhall saloon. “Scope those new headlamps, grille and more coherent brightwork,” he writes. “The Insignia was one of the first Vauxhalls to benefit from Design Chief Mark Adams’ new-form philosoph...

24Posted: 24th Oct 2013

Ben Nash Season Update

THE BERKSHIRE BLUE COURSE On the 9th of September I made my way up to the heart of surrey golfing estate. The Berkshire is home to two golf courses and I played the blue. The blue course starts with a long par three over heather. The weather was bright with a slight breeze but forecasters said that the weather was going ...

22Posted: 22nd Oct 2013

Insignia ‘strikes gold’

The Vauxhall Insignia is “even better than before”, according to the Daily Record’s Maggie Barry. “Not only is it an even smoother looking car, you can now get a 2.0-litre diesel engine emitting only 99g/km of CO2,” she writes. The car is “very good-looking”, but Vauxhall’s “pulled an exceptional rabbit ou...

22Posted: 22nd Oct 2013

Frankfurt: New engine for ADAM

The newest model in the ADAM range was revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show, reports Autocar. The city car is taking on the all-new three-cylinder turbocharged petrol engine, the first in Vauxhall’s new SGE (Small Gasoline Engine) family, which “will spawn other lightweight aluminium three and four cylinder petrol engin...

22Posted: 22nd Oct 2013

Big company car, small tax bill

The new low-tax Insignia puts the large company car “back on the map”, according to BusinessCarManager. Testing the Elite Nav 2.0 CDTi 140bhp ecoFLEX, Ralph Morton says the revised hatchback is “subtly sharper” with class-leading aerodynamics. “But the real story is under the bonnet where Vauxhall’s engineers ha...

8Posted: 8th Oct 2013

ADAM on a roll

The Adam looks set to become a “profitable little product” for Vauxhall says the Telegraph’s Chris Knapman, thanks to its focus on personalisation. “It looks great, all wide and squat. And the interior managed to be both trendy and functional,” says Knapman, who finds the front seats “supportive” and notes the...

8Posted: 8th Oct 2013

Plenty to go round in Zafira Tourer

Vauxhall’s “smooth new diesel” Zafira Tourer “looks good, feels good and is a very cheap way to shift the family about”, says the Daily Record in its review. “The 1.6-litre engine is both lean and mean and makes the sportier version of the Zafira exceptionally economical to run,” with a claimed 68.9mpg fuel r...

8Posted: 8th Oct 2013

The Convertible That Won't Break the Bank

The Cascada sees Vauxhall “trying something new” says Business Car Manager’s Peter Nunn, who gets behind the wheel of the “big and glamorous” four-seat convertible. “This is a sleek, full-size, front-drive convertible with a body that stretches longer than an Audi A5 Convertible. Starting at just £23,995,...