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TOP 10 MOTORWAY BRUISERS

“Nice guys finish last. If you want to dominate the motorways, these are the cars you need on your wishlist”

Master of the A road, that’s you. Every night in a different Travelodge, smoothing out your M&S polyester-cotton blend in the Corby trouser press, rinsing the minibar for fun-size Pringles tubes and coagulating Haribo. The alarm’s set for the crack of dawn, because you have places to go and people to wow. Time is money, my friend, and the execs signing cheques in Swindon or Maidstone won’t be impressed by someone who arrives in the office car park in a dishevelled old Vectra, wearing crumpled nylon and stinking of last night’s all-you-can-eat seafood buffet. That’s why you drive a full-fat motorway bruiser. The bottom-of-the-range turbo-diesel runabout just wouldn’t cut the mustard with your go-go lifestyle. You need your executive saloon to be the big-power variant, with the brawny motor and all the toys. Because nice guys finish last. If you want to dominate the motorways, these are the cars you need to have on your wishlist…

Vauxhall Insignia VXR

The old Vectras taken a lot of flack over the years for being boring, because, let’s face it, it usually is. We have seen people turn Vectra VXRs into pretty cool projects, but for

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