VAUXHALL FRONTERA AWARDED ‘VALUE CAR OF THE YEAR’ AT NEWS UK MOTOR AWARDS 2025

• New Vauxhall Frontera wins ‘Value Car of the Year’ at the News UK Motor Awards 2025
• Judges praised Frontera for its affordability, practicality and electric offering
• Frontera Electric pricing now lower than petrol hybrid versions, eliminating typical EV premium pricing
• ‘Electric All In’: Simple customer offer includes £500 towards a home charger or £500 public charging credit, 8 years’ roadside assistance (including emergency charging assistance) and 10,000 miles of free home charging

The new Vauxhall Frontera has been awarded ‘Value Car of the Year’ at the News UK Motor Awards 2025.  

Now in its eighth year, the News UK Motor Awards celebrate the best new vehicles across a wide range of segments, from family SUVs and city cars to luxury and performance models. The judging panel includes leading automotive journalists from News UK titles, such as The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times Magazine, and LUXX Magazine.

The judges praised the new Frontera for delivering exceptional value for money, combining practicality, style and electrification in an affordable package. The Frontera is available with a choice of fully electric and hybrid powertrains, supporting Vauxhall’s commitment to make electric mobility accessible to all.

Rob Gill, Motors Editor at The Sun, said: “Vauxhall has flipped the switch with Frontera Electric. Normally, the price difference between petrol and electric is about 30 per cent. Batteries aren’t cheap. But Frontera Electric is actually £2k cheaper than a petrol Frontera at £22k. Finance from £144 a month. To us, value means offering more for your money than you’d expect, and Frontera delivers that in spades.”

Steve Catlin, Vauxhall Managing Director, said: “The new Frontera perfectly illustrates our commitment to electrifying Britain. Frontera led the way as the first car in the UK to be available in electric and petrol-hybrid guise with an identical list price for both, and now goes even further with the Frontera Electric starting at a lower price than its hybrid equivalent. With a generous specification, spacious interior and rugged design, it’s gratifying to see it recognised as the best value car of 2025.”

The Frontera already set a new benchmark for accessible electrification from launch with identical pricing for the electric and hybrid versions. Following the introduction of the Electric Car Grant, the new Frontera Electric now starts from just £22,495 OTR, which is less than the hybrid equivalent. Vauxhall has removed the traditional price premium associated with EVs and made the switch to electric easier than ever.

Vauxhall recently expanded the Frontera model line-up with the introduction of the range-topping Ultimate trim, sitting above the Design and GS. This adds a range of features, enhancing comfort and practicality, including heated front seats, a heated steering wheel, a heated windscreen, LED fog lamps and roof rails with a 240kg load capacity.

Full pricing and specification for the new Vauxhall Frontera range can be viewed here.

Electric All In

Like all Vauxhall electric cars, the new Frontera is available with the brand’s Electric All In offer. Customers benefit from eight years of comprehensive roadside assistance, including emergency charging assistance. Electric All In also includes a £500 credit, which can be used towards either an Ohme home wall box installation, Tesco charging credit, or Octopus Electroverse credit, as well as 10,000 miles worth of free home charging when switching to the Intelligent Octopus GO home energy tariff.*

ENDS

*Offer is provided by Octopus Energy. The Free Miles promotion is available to eligible new and existing Octopus Energy customers who purchase a brand new electric Vauxhall vehicle and an Ohme wallbox via a Vauxhall Retailer, at participating Retailers only. Offer excludes NI, IoM and Channel Islands. Customers will need to switch their energy tariff to the Intelligent Octopus GO tariff (available to domestic customers only). Existing Intelligent Octopus GO customers are not eligible. The 10,000 free miles of electric driving is paid in the form of a credit totalling £175, including VAT, to the customer’s home energy account within 60 days of switching and the first direct debit made. Only 1 claim per household permitted. The energy credit of £175 funds 2,500 kWhs at the current Intelligent Octopus GO EV rate of 7p per kWh.

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ABOUT VAUXHALL MOTORS

Vauxhall Motors started making cars in the UK in 1903. Today, as the oldest and most familiar of Britain’s automotive manufacturers, its philosophy is to build vehicles that are relevant to all and offer design, high levels of equipment and technology, and electrification at an attainable level. Vauxhall is one of few automotive brands to produce electric vehicles in Britain at its manufacturing plant in Ellesmere Port – the UK’s first electric-only manufacturing plant where the Combo Electric van is made.  Vauxhall’s Electric Streets of Britain campaign raises the profile of the need for more on-street electric vehicle charging so that everyone can benefit from the switch to electric.  Find out more at www.electricstreets.co.uk  

Vauxhall is part of Stellantis NV, a global leader created for the new era of sustainable mobility as a result of the merger between Groupe PSA and FCA Group in January 2021. Vauxhall is a leader in electrification – as of 2021, it was one of the first manufacturers to offer fully electric versions of all its vans. Since the end of 2024, Vauxhall has offered a fully electric version of every model in its car and van line-up. Info: www.vauxhall.co.uk