If you're as eager as we are to lay your eyes on the brand new Vauxhall Astra, then check out the chart below showing the display car's movements over the next few months to see when it'll be paraded through a town near you. Which venue will we be seeing you at?

Here are our three Frankfurt bloggers interviewing Stephen Mertes Group Product Manager of Vauxhall. I'm biased but I have to say they are all pretty insightful and you can learn a lot about the design process behind the sixth generation Astra. What would you have asked?

James from The Car Disco

I must admit, I didn’t really know what to expect when we arrived in Frankfurt to be greeted by the sixth generation of Astra. Many pre production cars can look oh-so-good in scoop photos but a touch stale in real life and vice versa. As we entered the affectionately entitled ‘fairground’ (a wonderful German name for an exhibition fair centre) straight to the Vauxhall stand it was immediately apparent that preview photos had done a good job but only in the flesh did the new design really look its best, the translation from what had been achieved with the Insignia into a smaller hatch was a striking shape that couldn’t help but entice passers by for a closer look.

It seems that karma has finally caught up with Flavio Briatore. With Monday’s emergence of ‘witness X’ in the Renault Formula 1 case (who was reportedly “personally present at a meeting shortly after qualifying when Mr Symonds mentioned the possibility of a crash plan to Mr Briotore”), the ex-crew boss has been indefinitely banned from F1 while his partner in crime - ex-engineering chief Pat Symonds – has been banned for five years.