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Private Derek Derenalagi from Help for Heros with Vauxhall`s Ampera at RAC Future Car Challenge Finish Line
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Ampera was just about to stretch its muscles, looking forward to a further 300-mile drive, as the RAC Future Car Challenge Finish Line came into sight.
Vauxhall had three Ampera extended range EVs cruising along the 60-mile Brighton to London route this year, one of them in the hands of Private Derek Derenalagi from Help for Heroes, for whom driving the Ampera turned out to equally be a piece of cake.
Derek, who lost both his legs to a road side bomb in Afghanistan and was using his driver’s adaptor kit during the run, said: “The Ampera is comfortable and easy to drive and it’s also extremely responsive and silent, making the journey an amazing experience.”
The Ampera will be in UK showrooms in the spring of 2012. It qualifies for the Plug-in Car Grant, zero congestion charge and road tax exemption. Generating its electricity onboard once the battery is depleted to a certain state of charge, it also beats all range anxiety – in all respects a winner.
For more information on the Ampera, please visit www.vauxhall-ampera.co.uk
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The RAC Future Car Challenge
This is the second year that the Brighton to London RAC Future Car Challenge was celebrating the most advanced technologies in motoring. For more information on the RAC Future Car Challenge, please visit www.futurecarchallenge.com/
Vauxhall and Help for Heroes
Vauxhall is an Official Partner of Help for Heroes.
So far, Vauxhall raised over £160,000 with support from its staff and retailers and the company is also providing cars for their business activity and mini buses for some of their new Recovery Centres.
Since its very beginnings in 1903, Vauxhall has a history of close partnership with the British armed forces. It provided vehicles for both the First and Second World Wars, and today it makes significant discounts and tax free offers available to serving or retired members of HM forces and their immediate family members, through its long standing military sales programme.
