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New partnership with Team GB is first step in emphasising brand's identity to improve sales

Vauxhall has sponsored Team GB ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics, kicking off a new campaign to emphasise its Britishness and boost the emotional appeal of the brand.

It is Vauxhall’s first sponsorship of a major national sports team since 2018’s football World Cup, which marked the end of a seven-year deal in which it backed England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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124spider 8 January 2026

Do they think we are stupid?.  What is really British.  Some Nissans Some Minis and most JLR products.   Vauxhall pretending to be British is a total sham.   

rickerby 8 January 2026

Should be Vauxhall goes big on cynicism! The last Vauxhall designed car was the Victor FE of 1972! And they havnt assembled a car in the UK for around 10 years. Ansolutely breathtaking and rather depressing that they even think about pulling a marketing stunt like this

welshwizard645 8 January 2026

No Vauxhall cars are made in the UK, and since the demise of the previous Astra they have all been thinly disguised Peugeots.  Sadly, I think that on that basis the brand should be retired  - at least under GM we did get offered somethings Opel customers did not (VXR8).