Named best car-derived van at the Professional Van and Light Truck Awards, the Astravan added yet more silverware to the Vauxhall Commercial Vehicles' trophy cabinet. PV's judges singled the Astravan out as having 'better load capacity and payload than anything else in the category' as well as remarking on its driver appeal.

Astravan production accounts for well over 12,000 vehicles a year from the Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire. It is a significant contributor to GM's position as the UK's biggest producer of commercial vehicles, with more than 100,000 LCVs built in the UK in 2007 at both the Astravan plant and the GMM Luton facility, which makes Vivaro-type vans for all European markets. In 2007, Vauxhall achieved a record number of commercial vehicle sales in the UK, with over 53,000 vans sold to customers. Of those, more than 30,000 were built in the UK.

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