The Vauxhall Astra Electric and Sports Tourer Electric both come with a 50.8kWh usable capacity battery with a 153bhp electric motor driving the front wheels. There's no long range or four-wheel ...

Apart from the Opel Astra and its French cousin ... of having a major dealer backup. To create the Tourer, VW has brought its modular electric toolkit to bear on one of the brand evergreens.

In the Astra Sports Tourer it means a jump in power for the PHEV powertrain to 225PS, of which 180PS comes from the 1.6-litre petrol engine and 110PS (81.2kW) from the electric motor. Torque is ...