Vauxhall’s
two UK manufacturing plants have both reached production milestones. The 250,000th Astra Sports Tourer rolled off the
production line at Ellesmere Port and the Luton facility built its 900,000th Vivaro-type van.
Yesterday,
workers at Ellesmere Port, Britain’s number one manufacturer of estate cars,
held a celebration at the end of the production line as the quarter of a
millionth Astra Sports Tourer, the UK’s best-selling estate car, was driven off
the production line. Over 2.8 million Astra vehicles have been sold since it
went on sale in 1980 with 30,000 sold alone this year.
The Sports Tourer is
assembled solely at Ellesmere Port for export across Europe; this reflects the
depth of Vauxhall’s engineering and manufacturing excellence in the UK.
