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New Opel Astra: The debut was a success

Back in December last year, at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Opel introduced one of its most interesting developments to the world's court of Opel Astra.

The whole atmosphere created around the novelty, and the events surrounding it emphasized how serious the company and the General Motors concern, standing behind her, was doing, for this car. Opel Astra was demonstrated from the best side literally from all sides: all those wishing were handed out booklets, round tables were held, interviews were given. Moreover, the practical side of the new model was demonstrated at the best possible way at one of the German training grounds.

Since July 2010, Astra’s new generation began to be produced at the factory in Shushara near St. Petersburg owned by General Motors. Before the Astra, at this plant, other well -known models Opel and Chevrolet were produced with varying success and continue to produce, on which, by the way, GM at different times also made a very serious bet, considering a strategic breakthrough.

The new Opel Astra, which began to leave the assembly line, began to collect orders quite quickly. To date, it is known that more than three thousand applications have already been collected for the car. And this is only the beginning! And we must think that this is far from the limit. In order to ensure the release of asters, several hundred new people who passed special trainings organized by General Motors (GM) were accepted at the plant. These trainings helped employees of the enterprise master the unified international GM production system. Meanwhile, future production volumes of this model are still unknown and depend only on demand. At least while the situation around Astra develops well, the leadership expects that only the plant in Shushara will produce about 60 thousand cars a year.
To date, the new Opel Astra has already been on sale, but due to the great interest in this offspring of Opel Astra, far before the start of serial production has been studied with varying success from all sides.

Astra managed to offer his customers an increased level of comfort and security for reasonable money. Earlier, both of them could be obtained only in cars that were at least for the class above. Among the successful innovations that note almost all observers, ergonomic front seats, steering wheel heating, Flexride mechatron chassis, Advanced Forward Lighting headlights (bixenon), which are capable of changing the shape of the light beam and the intensity of lighting and the intensity of lighting, etc.

As always, manufacturers left the buyers a fundamental choice. You can choose immediately between four gasoline engines operating in the range from 100 to 180 liters. With. At the same time, two 1.4 -liter engines are among the atmospheric ones, and two more by 1.6 liters are turbocharged.

The new Astra, having a length traditional for this brand of the car (4.42 meters), nevertheless has an increased wheelbase increased by 71 mm. Due to this, the necessary scope has appeared in the car interior, which is necessary for the driver and passengers to feel as convenient as possible.
You can verify this only by opening the door. Having done this, you can immediately make sure how elegantly it is and richly decorated. Obviously, the designers of this model, and then its manufacturers spent a lot of effort to achieve maximum spaciousness and convenience. It is curious that the seats located inside the Astra received a whole certificate of the Society for the Struggle for the Health of the back. A well -thought -out driver’s workplace, adjustable steering wheel and chairs of the first and second row only strengthen the quite favorable picture that causes the car interior.
Meanwhile, not only the salon and its interior are good. You can confidently talk about that, and the exterior Opel Astra did not disappoint and is quite attractive. Everything is observed as accurately as possible: elegant proportions, smooth outlines of the aerodynamic body, a strong silhouette of the cab. The back line of the roof falls, adding new attractive faces to the image of a hechback that is so familiar to us today.

We will summarize small results. In the automotive industry, in contrast, for example, from the fashion industry, one, even the brightest characteristic of the car will never bring success. The growth in sales of a particular car model directly depends on the complex of characteristics. The prospects of the Astra in the market are due to the fact that the main characteristics are well balanced, the design of the car pleases the eye.
 

A source: Wheel magazine [August 2010]