It isn't often, if at all, that PH would draw your attention to a 2013 Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Tech Line in the classifieds, even if it does have a remarkably low mileage of just 6,126. But this isn't just any old Vauxhall Astra - it's the Top Gear Star In A Reasonably Priced Car Vauxhall Astra, for sale on PistonHeads.
The Astra was the final Reasonably Priced Car used on Top Gear (because the new era has a GT86 as a Reasonably Fast Car), featuring on the show between 2013 and the end of old-new Top Gear in 2015. It followed the Kia Cee'd, used from 2010-13.
Despite its relatively short tenure as the SIARPC vehicle, the Astra still hosted many a famous pilot: Olly Murs was its fastest (clocking 1:44.6), with Kiefer Sutherland, Tom Hiddleston, Gillian Anderson, Benedict Cumberbatch, David Haye and Jimmy Car also among the star drivers. It won't escape your attention, either, that the selling dealer has used Margot Robbie's turn behind the wheel - and not, say, Ron Howard's - to help get eyes on the Astra...
It's priced at £9,995, the ad reading like no other Astra before it: "Air conditioning, sat-nav, roll cage, bucket seats, harnesses...". No surprise that this is the lowest mileage Astra of this age out there, with just two other cars showing fewer than 15,000 miles recorded on PH. Although granted, those miles will likely have been more sedate than the ones endured by the Top Gear Astra.
Furthermore, while the modified TG cars aren't typically road legal, this Vauxhall has an MOT until next March. So if it needed to be used just as a runaround for the shops, that would be perfectly possible. Quite what the next owner will do with it is anyone's guess; those after an Astra for doing Astra-type driving probably wouldn't want to spend £10k on one, so maybe it'll be a collector of some kind. Or a very, very committed fan of one of the stars - we'll leave you to guess who might be most popular!
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