Category: Opel

The Vauxhall VX220 is one of the most unusual performance cars to wear a Vauxhall badge: a light, mid-engined two-seater developed with Lotus and sold in Europe as the Opel Speedster. It is not a softened family-car derivative. Its aluminium structure, composite body and exposed driving position make condition, repair quality and intended use much…

The first Vauxhall Corsa GSi arrived in Britain in 1993. It was a small, light three-door hot hatch with a 1.6-litre 16-valve engine, a sharper chassis than the ordinary Corsa and enough performance to make it a direct successor in spirit to the Nova GTE/GSi. Good ones are now scarce, especially cars that retain their…

The Vauxhall Vectra became an everyday sight on British roads, which makes its faster and rarer versions easy to overlook today. The Vectra GSi and Irmscher-developed i500 were serious attempts to give the B-generation Vectra genuine performance character: handsome in the right specification, practical enough to use and now increasingly hard to find in unmodified…

Vauxhall performance guide The Vauxhall Astra GSi badge covers two genuinely interesting but very different hot hatches: the light, analogue Mk3 GSi 16v of the 1990s and the later Mk4 GSi Turbo. This UK buying guide separates them properly, explains what makes each one worth preserving and focuses on the checks that matter before money…