The short-lived Vauxhall Astra GTE Mk1 was considered a hot hatch in the U.K., and it’s the rarest of all the high-performance Astras sold in the country.

Ever since the first Astra GTE appeared in the early 1980s, Vauxhall's offering has been the perennial bridesmaid, the also-ran in many a hot hatch battle. Opel and Vauxhall know this, though, and ...