It’s an odd proposition, the Astra VXR Nürburgring Edition. On the one hand its name suggests a car methodically, relentlessly honed by unsmiling German engineers on those 13 miles of tortuous ...

A production run hasn’t been confirmed, but with a Nurburgring endurance racing car as its base, everything about the Extreme is plausible, suggesting a limited-run model to boost the Astra VXR ...