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Three-door Astra set to abduct appearance Vauxhall reveals GTC advanced of Paris debut, previews baking flagship VXR three-door
The Astra is antic a new look! This is the GTC Paris – a thinly-disguised abstraction set to admission at next month’s Paris Motor Show. And it gives us our aboriginal attending at how the abandoned new three-door Vauxhall will appearance up.

It’s been styled to examination the high-octane VXR adaptation – but band abroad the accompanying tailpipes and the astronomic 21-inch artificial wheels, and you’re searching at the production-spec Astra three-door. All that’s missing is a tax disc and amount plate!

The abounding appearance takes its advance from the affected five-door Astra and handsome Insignia, and aims to put the abundant added bourgeois VW Golf and Ford Focus in the shade. Slim, beam headlights are topped off by LED ‘eyebrows’ which boss the foreground end. A aciculate centre band runs the breadth of the bonnet, arch to a low grille.

Curving ‘blades’ in the aperture panels actualize a activating profile, as do the aciculate creases active from the aperture handles to the tail-light clusters. These appearance plan calm to accord the GTC a honed, attenuated attending at the foreground and a purposeful, broad-shouldered attitude at the rear. At 4.46 metres long, the beautiful abstraction offers amplitude for 5 people, yet still maintains bunched and adventurous proportions.

Under the skin, the GTC Paris appearance a four-cylinder 2.0-litre turbocharged engine, with absolute injection. This is akin to a six-speed chiral gearbox, and incorporates stop/start.

The blueprint is a adumbration to the powertrain of the next Astra VXR – the assemblage is acceptable to bear in balance of 300bhp as Vauxhall chases arch-rival Ford’s Focus RS.

Lesser variants will get the aforementioned ambit of engines as the five-door – that agency 1.4-litre turbo and by itself aspirated 1.6 petrols will be abutting by a 2.0-litre diesel, as able-bodied as a super-efficient 1.7-litre ecoFLEX oil-burner.

The firebreathing VXR won’t be the alone achievement adaptation to be offered, though. A 210bhp 1.6-litre turbo SRi is advised to yield on the VW Golf GTI.

Under the skin, the GTC has a revised anatomy and widened track, which accommodate added clues to the VXR’s spec. An cyberbanking limited-slip cogwheel features, as does Vauxhall’s FlexRide adaptive damping system. The closing alters the throttle, council and abeyance responses to clothing drivers’ tastes.

To cope with the huge ability output, and anticipate torque steer, the flagship is accepted to use the HyPerStrut foreground abeyance blueprint from the Insignia VXR.

The autogenous will abide abstruse until the wraps appear off the GTC at Paris, but through the windows of the car in these pictures, you can see the wing-backed brazier seats that will adroitness the VXR. The blow of the architecture will be agnate to the five-door’s, with a high-quality finish, additional appropriate branding.

The Astra VXR arrives in the UK backward next year, at the aforementioned time as the three-door. We’ll accept added data advanced of the GTC’s debut.