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 ...

Some once-popular cars gradually vanish from our roads as if by stealth, and Adrian Day’s 1982 Vauxhall Astra is one of the few remaining Mk1 models. It is also the exclusive EXP limited edition ...