The Astra Sports Tourer has built-in green credentials courtesy of being the market’s only lower medium estate car produced in Britain – at the Ellesmere Port Merseyside factory. Consequently, it did not need to be hauled by road transporter across Europe from one of GM’s continental assembly outposts and therefore has a smaller carbon footprint.

That eco factor is part of a production/sales/clientele virtuous circle as corporate customers, known for being more likely to select greener cars than retail customers, dominate Sports Tourer sales.

Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer 1.7 CDTi SRi
Mileage 1820
Claimed combined
consumption
62.8mpg
Our average
consumption
45.6mpg
Forecast CPM 54.7p
Actual CPM 56.5p
Why we’re running it To see if the latest
Astra wagon can shake off
its predecessors’ stigma of
being a utilitarian workhorse.
Positive Loading bay
access, seat folding
Negative Door mirrors don’t fold