TG's 'Reasonably Priced Car' up for auction

Top Gear's Reasonably Priced Car is up for auction.

Top Gear's Reasonably Priced Car is up for auction.

Published Dec 22, 2015

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Top Gear's most recent 'Reasonably Priced Car', a 1.6-litre Vauxhall (Opel) Astra, has been put up for auction on eBay and so far it is quite, err, reasonably priced.

General Motors' UK division, which owns the car, will donate the proceeds to motor industry charity BEN, although at the time of writing the bidding price sat at a hardly-exorbitant £10 100.01 (R227 000) after 26 bids and with just under five days to go.

See the eBay listing HERE

One catch though - it's not road legal.

In a bid to protect the celebs that drove it for the Top Gear insert, the vehicle is fitted with a roll cage and all the airbags were disabled to make way for it.

The car also has Front Corbeau Sprint Racing seats with 5 point safety belt harness.

So it's a mean racing machine then? Well, not really, given that it's fitted with GM's stock-standard normally aspirated 1.6-litre petrol engine.

But the Astra still did a reasonable job of entertaining celebs like James Blunt, Jimmy Carr and Ron Howard on the Top Gear test track in Surrey. Oh, and postage stamps to get it to South Africa are not included.

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