News Summary

• As Vauxhall gears up to launch a performance sub-brand, we chronicle the rather more modest achievements of its mid-priced, middle market Grandland SUV.
• The Grandland shares a platform - and hence its basic proportions, underpinnings and a fair degree of hardware and software - with the Peugeot 5008 (amongst others from the Stellantis stable).
• Which basically gives you a choice: do you want studied Gallic eccentricity or Anglo-German simplicity?