Vauxhall Vectra VXR Estate Vauxhall's latest Vectra delivers a lot of pace and practicality for the price. By: Auto Express team. 9 Jan 2007. 9. Overall Auto Express rating. 3.0.

WHEN I first clapped eyes on our long-term Vectra VXR estate I laughed out loud. I’m a bit of a show-off, you see. At the weekend I wear Hawaiian shirts. So when I saw the vivid blue VXR, with ...

Vauxhall Vectra VXR Estate The latest super-estates cost almost £80,000 - but can you have fun in a load lugger for a fraction of the price? PH borrows a VXR estate to find out ...

There’s certainly no shortage of load-carrying space in a Vectra estate. ... The Vectra VXR could almost be seen as a Q-car, not too unlike the new RS6 and M5 estates are ...

It accelerates deceptively quickly for its size, too: 0-60mph comes in just 5.9 seconds. The old Vectra VXR estate was similarly quick, but handling suffered due to its front-wheel-drive layout.

My much-loved Vauxhall Vectra VXR estate (2007, 55,000 miles and valued about £6,500) suffered total engine failure two weeks ago. Just been told by dealer that cost of replacement engine and fitting ...

Vectra and Monaro VXR models are already some of the most powerful cars on the road, but that hasn’t stopped Vauxhall giving them even more grunt. New 2007 model year versions of the Vectra VXR have ...

When our new Vectra VXR arrived I had just finished a year in the Focus ST and needed a car, ... Getting in for the first time, I was immediately struck by just how long the VXR estate is.

A stylish estate version is also available. The Vauxhall name might suggest mass-market sales, but the truth is that fewer than 1,000 will be sold in Britain each year In its way, therefore, this ...

The Vectra VXR was a much better car than the MPVs, but it also struggled - only 1,000 were sold here between 2005 and 2008, the number Vauxhall had originally projected it would shift each year.

TYPICAL. I’d been waiting with anticipation to be handed the keys to our long-term Vectra and the glorious Monday morning had finally arrived. Visions of driving down country roads with the ...