Our choice for the 1980s is the Vauxhall Astra GTE Mk1. The Astra GTE was the high-performance version of the Mk1 Vauxhall Astra, and arrived very close to the end of that generation’s ...

We get very hung-up on what VW and Peugeot were up to in those nascent years of the hot hatch – and understandably so – but, on the evidence of my time with it, the Mk1 Astra GTE is unfairly ...

Vauxhall hot hatches have had a chequered recent history. A reputation for lots of power, but in a chassis that can barely handle it, has dogged Luton's performance offerings, first with the Astra ...

Shame, then, that the Mk1 GTE was only around for two short years ... Despite featuring copious amounts of 1980s plastic, the design of the Astra’s interior and its level of fit and finish ...

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Long before I passed my driving test, I’d already homed in on a Mk1 Astra as my first car, but I couldn’t afford to buy or insure the GTE, so I settled on the next best thing: the 1.6 SR.

Some of the most exciting cars of the 80s are rotting in junkyards in shadows of their former selves - not this MK1 Turbo Astra. Riccardo Senior from LivingLifefast checked out this epic build.

The Vauxhall Astra Mk1 is now a fast-vanishing sight from British roads but earlier this year Michael Carpenter discovered and acquired this bottom-of-the-range E 1200S in a very Eighties shade of ...

Vauxhall hot hatches have had a chequered recent history. A reputation for lots of power, but in a chassis that can barely handle it, has dogged Luton's performance offerings, first with the Astra ...