Vauxhall’s estate car sized Astravan has always been popular with builders, self-employed tradesmen and others who need the practicality of a small panel van but don’t want to trade up to a Transit or Citroen Despatch-sized van.

The Vauxhall Astravan is consequently one of the most popular vehicles in the car-derived van class and has just won the award for best car-derived van at the Professional Van & Light Truck Awards.

The British-built Astravan is made at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant and also has another advantage over even small vans like the Transit Connect – its car-derived nature and maximum gross weight of under 2 tonnes means that it is subject to car speed limits, rather than the lower speed limits which apply to all vans with a plated weight of over 2 tonnes.

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