The radically restyled and mechanically reinvented eighth-generation Vauxhall Astra will be available for the first time as a battery electric Astra-e. It’s the most exciting thing to happen to the Astra since, well, ever. That will come in 2023, but the conventional new Astra will arrive in early 2022.

Actually, that’s rather unfair, because contrary to the car’s lacklustre image, there’s no shortage of interesting models in the Astra’s back catalogue. This is by no means a comprehensive list, just a selection of 20 of our favourite Vauxhall Astras.