The secret of great comedy is timing, so it should come as no surprise that the arrival of Triple Eight Engineering’s Astra VXR at the evo ... its thing and fires Vauxhall’s hottest hatch ...

as though its flywheel is running in a vacuum compared with the inertia-filled VXR. The six-speed ’box snicks where the Astra’s slops, the brakes respond instantly but without the Vauxhall’s ...

The Vauxhall Astra GTC is at its very core a hybrid mix ... Although the most respectable of the range it came with the VXR body kit giving it added muscle in the wheel arches, a rear spoiler ...