West drive Opel Astra sedan since 2007 sedan

The second echelon
Lesser medium (or C-class) cars account for almost half of the foreign cars sold in Russia. There are about 700,000, but the most successful of them Ford Focus, Chevrolet Lacetti and Toyota Corolla are not included in our review. We are interested in cars that are ranked for the conditional second echelon of golf class: not sales leaders, but ...
Intellectuals
Both Opel Astra and Renault Megane have been in demand in our market for a long time. But if Megane is no longer uncommon in the sedan version, then Astra acquired such a body recently. Compare these two cars.opel Astra Price: $ 20 300 on sale: 2007 Renault Megane Price: $ 19 380 for sale: 2005. On ...
City athlete
The question is why, in the lineup, so popular in Russia Opel Astra, there is still no sedan, many motorists are probably asked ... Sedans are not able to love sedans now. Apparently, this is a normal protest reaction to all new offers of automakers in this segment in particular, budget sedans based on hatchbacks, which, by definition and initial conditions ...
Turkish gambit
Opel for a long time did not let the Astra market with a sedan market with a chess board. To evaluate how this car will change the alignment of forces, Denis Harutyunyan went to Turkey. Photo by the author and Opel. Sedans respect not only in our country: the production of this asters began in Poland, in the town of Glivitsa. And in Turkey about 67%...
Child accident
Here is a mystery to why the Volkswagen marketers, releasing their representative sedan in 2002, chose the newborn name Phaeton. Phaeton is the hero of the ancient Greek epic, who disobeyed his father Helios, took a chariot from him and failed to hold the horses. The Chariot of Phaeton crashed, he himself died. It is difficult not to be superstitious about Phaeton.
Astra in the country of sedanov
Probably, it was necessary in the end, demand gives birth to a proposal. And the sedans love us especially like a sip of cold beer on a hot day. I have already decided that the beautiful Astra hatchback, which appeared in a new body four years ago, has forever changed the representation of Russians about the decent C-class car. Because…
Breaking stereotypes
Contrary to the steady opinion of the fatal commitment of Russian motorists to the sedans, the mass demand vector gradually turns towards the pan-European values \u200b\u200bin the golf class are a car about five doors, that is, hatchbacks. Typical representatives of this vast family Opel Astra, Peugeot 308 and Renault Megane became the heroes of our heading. The times when ...
We will judge strictly
Before we had time to drive the first Skoda-Octavia collected in Kaluga, General Motors, announced the beginning of the production of Opel-Astra sedan in Russia. In the same price group - a Hyundai -Elantra that has not yet become a shiny here. Competitors were compared by Sergey Kanunnikov. Photo: Alexander Kulnev.hyundai Elantraedan debuted in 2007. Metters: gasoline 1.6 and ...
Will Astra be blossomed if it is (l) to diesel fuel?
In the fairy tale about Uncle Fedor was a funny character of TR-TRI-MITH. Remember? Local cheerful Prostokvashinsky wheeled tractor. In those days, diesel fuel in state farm ath (auto-tractor) was at least a bit, but the TR-TR-MITH treated the human wipes with special warmth. Cheeses, sausages, pancakes. You can understand a clean diesel fuel without impurity of sulfur and mechanical ...
The joy of the gardener. Opel Astra
ML350, S80, MDX, 530i cool cars, but with empty, nothing meaningful. But it is much more pleasant when the name is the meaning, as often happens with less pathos and more compact cars. For example, many golf class representatives have meaningful, beautiful and easily memorable names. Take the same Astra here ...

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