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Vauxhall Astra

Index Vauxhall Astra

The Vauxhall Astra is a small family car that has been built by Vauxhall since 1979. [1]

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Aerodynamics

Aerodynamics, from Greek ἀήρ aer (air) + δυναμική (dynamics), is the study of the motion of air, particularly its interaction with a solid object, such as an airplane wing.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen, Anvers) is a city in Belgium, and is the capital of Antwerp province in Flanders.

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Austin Allegro

The Austin Allegro is a small family car that was manufactured by the Austin-Morris division of British Leyland from 1973 until 1982.

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Austin Maestro

The Austin Maestro is a five-door hatchback small family car (and two-door van derivative) that was produced from 1982 to 1987 by British Leyland, and from 1988 until 1994 by Rover Group.

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Austin Rover Group

The Austin Rover Group (abbreviated ARG) was a British motor manufacturer.

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Bedford Vehicles

Bedford Vehicles, usually shortened to just Bedford, was a brand of vehicle produced by Vauxhall Motors, which was ultimately owned by General Motors (GM).

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bochum

Bochum (Westphalian: Baukem) is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and part of the Arnsberg region.

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British Rally Championship

The MSA British Rally Championship is a rallying series based in the United Kingdom.

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British Touring Car Championship

The British Touring Car Championship is a touring car racing series held each year in the United Kingdom, currently organised and administered by TOCA.

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BTC-T Vauxhall Astra Coupe

The Vauxhall Astra Coupe is a BTC-Touring class racing car that was built for the 2001 British Touring Car Championship season by Triple 8 Race Engineering, who ran Vauxhall's official works program.

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C-segment

C-segment (or medium cars) is a Euro Car Segment; a car classification loosely defined by the European Commission as the third-smallest segment (above the A-segment and B-segment) in the European market—in a system that comprises nine overall classes.

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Camshaft

A camshaft is a shaft to which a cam is fastened or of which a cam forms an integral part.

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Captive import

Captive import is a marketing term and a strategy for a vehicle that is foreign-built and sold under the name of an importer or by a domestic automaker through its own dealer distribution system.

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Car of the Year

Car of the Year (COTY) is a common abbreviation for numerous awards.

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Colin Turkington

Colin Henry Turkington (born 21 March 1982) is a Northern Irish auto racing driver, who is currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship for Team BMW WSR in a BMW 125i M Sport.

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Common rail

Common rail direct fuel injection is a direct fuel injection system for diesel engines.

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Compact car

A compact car (North America), or small family car in British acceptation, is a classification of cars that are larger than a subcompact car but smaller than a mid-size car, roughly equivalent to the C-segment in Europe.

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Connolly Leather

Connolly Leather Limited was a British company that supplied highly finished leather primarily to car manufacturers, founded in 1878.

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Ellesmere Port

Ellesmere Port is a town and port in Cheshire, England, part of the Cheshire West and Chester local authority.

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Euro NCAP

The European New Car Assessment Programme (Euro NCAP) is a European car safety performance assessment programme (i.e. a New Car Assessment Program) based in Brussels (Belgium) and founded in 1997 by the Transport Research Laboratory for the UK Department for Transport and backed by several European governments, as well as by the European Union.

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European Car of the Year

The European Car of the Year award is an international award established in 1964, by a collective of automobile magazines from different countries in Europe.

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Fabrizio Giovanardi

Fabrizio Giovanardi (born 14 December 1966 in Sassuolo) is an Italian racing driver.

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Fiat Ritmo

The Fiat Ritmo is an automobile by Italian manufacturer Fiat, launched in April 1978 at the Turin Motor show.

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Ford Escort (Europe)

The Ford Escort is a small family car which was manufactured by Ford Europe from 1968 to 2004.

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Ford Fiesta

The Ford Fiesta is a supermini marketed by Ford since 1976 over seven generations and manufactured globally, including in Europe, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, China, India, Thailand, and South Africa.

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Ford Focus

The Ford Focus is a compact car (C-segment in Europe) manufactured by the Ford Motor Company since 1998.

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Ford Mondeo

The Ford Mondeo is a mid-sized or large family car manufactured by Ford since 1993.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

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Ford Orion

The Ford Orion was a small family car (C-segment in Europe) that was produced by Ford Europe from 1983 to 1993.

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Front-wheel drive

Front-wheel drive (FWD) is a form of engine and transmission layout used in motor vehicles, where the engine drives the front wheels only.

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Gavin Smith (racing driver)

Gavin Smith (born 15 September 1977) is an Irish racing driver.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Gliwice

Gliwice (Gleiwitz) is a city in Upper Silesia, southern Poland, near Katowice.

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GM Family II engine

The Family II is a straight-4 piston engine that was originally developed by Opel in the 1970s, debuting in 1979.

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Gruppo Bertone

Gruppo Bertone, commonly known simply as Bertone, was an Italian automobile company, which specialized in car styling, coachbuilding and manufacturing.

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Hatchback

A hatchback is a car with a hatch-type rear door that opens upwards and often a shared volume for the passenger and cargo areas.

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Holden

Holden, formally known as General Motors Holden, is an Australian automobile importer and a former automobile manufacturer with its headquarters in Port Melbourne, Victoria.

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Holden Astra

The Holden Astra is a compact car marketed by Holden in Australia.

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Hydraulics

Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.

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International Motor Show Germany

The International Motor Show Germany or simply International Motor Show, in German known as the Internationale Automobil-Ausstellung (IAA - International Automobile Exhibition), is the world's largest motor show.

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James Thompson (racing driver)

James Thompson (born 26 April 1974 in York, England) is a British auto racing driver.

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Jason Plato

Timothy Jason Plato (born 14 October 1967 in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is a British racing driver currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) for Team BMR.

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Lancia Delta

The Lancia Delta is a small family car produced by Italian automobile manufacturer Lancia in three generations.

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Nissan Pulsar

The Nissan Pulsar is a subcompact and compact car produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan from 1978 until 2000, when it was replaced by the Nissan Bluebird Sylphy in the Japanese market.

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Opel

Opel (Opel) is a German automobile manufacturer, subsidiary of French automaker Groupe PSA since August 2017.

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Opel Astra

The Opel Astra (Lat: Stars) is a compact car/small family car (C-segment in Europe) engineered and manufactured by the German automaker Opel since 1991.

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Opel Insignia

The Opel Insignia is an mid size/large family car engineered and produced by the German car manufacturer Opel.

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Opel Kadett

The Opel Kadett is a small family car produced by the German automobile manufacturer Opel from 1962 until 1991 (the Cabrio continued until 1993), when it was succeeded by Opel Astra.

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Opel OHV engine

The Opel OHV family (also known as the Kadett engine after its most famous application) is a pushrod straight-4 engine.

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Opel Omega

The Opel Omega is an executive car engineered and manufactured by the German automaker Opel between 1986 and 2003.

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Overhead camshaft

Overhead camshaft, commonly abbreviated to OHC, is a valvetrain configuration which places the camshaft of an internal combustion engine of the reciprocating type within the cylinder heads ("above" the pistons and combustion chambers) and drives the valves or lifters in a more direct manner compared with overhead valves (OHV) and pushrods.

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Panda car

Panda car, or just panda, refers to a small or medium-sized marked British police car.

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Rover 200 / 25

The Rover 200 Series, and later the Rover 25, are a series of small family cars that were produced by British manufacturer Rover from 1984 to 2005.

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Saturn Corporation

The Saturn Corporation, also known as Saturn LLC, was an American automobile manufacturer, a registered trademark established on January 7, 1985, as a subsidiary of General Motors.

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Sedan (automobile)

A sedan (American, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English) or saloon (British, Irish and Indian English) is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with A, B & C-pillars and principal volumes articulated in separate compartments for engine, passenger and cargo.

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Station wagon

A station wagon, also called an estate car, estate wagon, or simply wagon or estate, is an automotive body-style variant of a sedan/saloon with its roof extended rearward over a shared passenger/cargo volume with access at the back via a third or fifth door (the liftgate or tailgate), instead of a trunk/boot lid.

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Tom Chilton

Thomas James Chilton (born 15 March 1985 in Reigate) is a British racing driver.

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Top Gear (2002 TV series)

Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two.

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Top Gear test track

The Top Gear test track is used by the BBC automotive television programme Top Gear.

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Touring car racing

Touring car racing is an auto racing competition with heavily modified road-going cars.

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Triple Eight Racing

Triple Eight Racing is an auto racing team formed in 1996 as Triple Eight Race Engineering, currently competing in the British Touring Car Championship and the British GT Championship.

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Vauxhall Belmont

The Vauxhall Belmont was a saloon car sold in the United Kingdom by Vauxhall between January 1986 and July 1991.

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Vauxhall Chevette

The Vauxhall Chevette supermini or compact car was manufactured by Vauxhall in the United Kingdom from 1975 to 1984.

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Vauxhall Motors

Vauxhall Motors LimitedCompany No.

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Vauxhall Viva

The Vauxhall Viva is a small family car produced by Vauxhall in a succession of three versions between 1963 and 1979.

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Volkswagen Golf

The Volkswagen Golf is a compact car produced by the German manufacturer Volkswagen since 1974, marketed worldwide across seven generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates – such as the Volkswagen Rabbit in the United States and Canada (Mk1 and Mk5), and as the Volkswagen Caribe in Mexico (Mk1).

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Volkswagen Golf Mk3

The Volkswagen Golf Mk3 is a small family car, the third generation of the Volkswagen Golf and the successor to the Volkswagen Golf Mk2.

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Volkswagen Jetta

The Volkswagen Jetta is a compact car/small family car manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen since 1979.

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VXR

VXR is the branding for the high-performance trim specification, used since 2004 for models in many of Vauxhall's car range in the United Kingdom.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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What Car?

What Car? is a long running United Kingdom monthly automobile magazine and website, currently edited by Steve Huntingford and published by Haymarket Consumer Media.

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World Touring Car Championship

The FIA World Touring Car Championship was an international touring car championship promoted by Eurosport Events and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA).

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Yvan Muller

Yvan Muller (born 16 August 1969 in Altkirch, Haut-Rhin) is a French auto racing driver most noted for success in touring car racing.

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2001 British Touring Car Championship

The 2001 theAA.com MSA British Touring Car Championship season was the 44th British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) season and marked the beginning of a new era of lower-cost rules and regulations for the series.

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2010 Paris Motor Show

The 2010 Paris Motor Show took place from 2 October to 17 October 2010, in Paris expo Porte de Versailles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauxhall_Astra

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