Test drive Opel Astra sedan since 2007 sedan
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We already wrote about her. But over the past three years, Astra has changed so much for the better, mind you! which requires another detailed story. After all, this is one of the few golf class cars that can be as unique as you want. A swift silhouette, a deliberately predatory incision of the eyes, a noble, stylish interior of the current Astra immediately attracted the attention of even those snobs who used to turn his nose from Opel. In Europe, the car produced a splash, but in Russia it was initially accepted coolly. No wonder: it turned out to be about 20% more expensive than its predecessor.
And then a miracle happened: the Astra did not take it, but its popularity grew before her eyes and today ten, fifteen times higher than two years ago. With the exception of the focus, not a single European golf-class car uses such a love of buyers.
However, the reasons for such fabulous changes are quite prosaic. First of all, the sellers faded the configuration so that already in the second -level version of Ango, almost all the equipment necessary for modern low -commandance appeared. Then, a spectacular three-door was added to the 5-door hatchbek and the station wagon, a slightly later a compartment and a sports 240-horsepower version of OPC appeared. In the spring of 2007 and restyling arrived. The machine began to look spectacular, and in the top versions even richer inside. Finally, in the fall, the sedan debuted no less than the largest in the people's class. Add to this profitable loans for Opel and we get monthly sales in two or three thousand cars.
What is the price?
Alas, as often happens, the growth of popularity allowed dealers to increase prices. For example, in February, the most popular 5-door hatchback of 1.6-cosmo with a package of 45 options cost about $ 22,000, and now about one and a half thousand more expensive. But the charm of asters is that even in the budget version you can find by no means a car in equipment.
So, the most affordable Essenshia costs 447,000 rubles. In most cases, buyers of such machines are usually limited to the white body and 1.4-liter engine, lay down with the absence of many pleasant little things in external and interior decoration. Not particularly burdensome in the content, the basic astra will delight any Zavgar. When five or six such machines work in the park, the savings come out significant.
Access to the cabin without a key and starting the engine with a button will cost 13,000 rubles.
Cosmo chairs (left) are elegant and convenient, and for 26,000 rubles. you can order the seats of the recaro from OPC
Only in the base of the mirror with illumination require an additional payment of 1700 rubles
The back of 40/20/40 is the back of the sofa is most profitable to order in packages for 6250 12,500 rubles.
In the same configuration of Essenshia, you can buy a station wagon and sedan. With a more powerful 1.6-liter engine (115 l.), They, respectively, are 50 and 65 thousand rubles more expensive. You get a fairly large, roomy car with air conditioning, an electric packet and a complete set of safety funds for $ 2021 thousand. A very interesting option for those who do not mind saving.
If the practicality and convenience of landing on the back row unnecessarily, the three -door service is at your service. The minimum possible version of the Angia Enja Essenchia is outwardly and prettier inside, is already equipped with climate control, MP3-magnet, electric drive of heated mirrors and heating front seats. But there is also a curious option for less than $ 1000 Astra acquires the level of decoration better than other middle -class machines. This is the Cosmo version.
Her highlight of sports seats. They are trimmed with artificial skin, but according to such a better natural Japanese, Korean or American cars. In addition to cast discs, leather on the steering wheel and foglights, get a lining on the front panel of black polished plastic. In a golf class, even expensive audi does not have the like. It is space that is easier and cheaper to make as convenient as possible for yourself. The most diverse grids into the trunk, divided in a ratio of 40/20/40, the back of the sofa, xenon headlights, the launch system without the key, the panoramic roof list of options occupies more than one page.
If you need a machine gun, take a closer look at the Aster with Iseronik. Two pedals, no delay at the start, and costs only 20,000 rubles. more expensive than mechanics. Do you want the car to be more powerful and dynamic? The 140-horsepower Astra-1.8 by 1.5 s faster 1.6-liter accelerates to hundreds and costs 30 thousand more. Astra-Turbo in 200 liters. With. Real aircraft: 230 km/h. Although the price is almost sky-high for golf class from 717 thousand. Finally, at the wheel of a 240-horsepower OPC with a sports body kit, a hard and low suspension, powerful brakes, aweled reaches of the recourse, you can go to the races.
List of standard equipment
Essenshia:
Air conditioner
ABS with an electronic distribution of effort and an emergency braking amplifier
Front and front side pillows of safety
Mounts for children's seats Isofix
Immobilizer
Front electric windows
Central Castle with Du
Tilt adjustable in length and corner of the steering column
Fabric salon
Steel wheels R15, tires 195/55 R15
Audio training (antenna and 2 speakers)
Folding (60/40) back of the sofa
Full -size spare wheel
Ango additionally:
Climate control
Pockets behind the backs of seats
Folding ignition key
Signaling
Electric drive and heating of mirrors
Heating the front seats
Mp3 magnet with DU on the steering wheel
Chrome rims of devices
Make -up mirrors
Mirrors, door handles and moldings in the color of the body
Steel wheels with caps and tires 205/55 R16
Cosmo additionally:
Sports seats
Rolling the steering of the steering wheel
Finishing of chairs and door panels with artificial skin and cloth
Brown of make -up mirrors
Additional salon backlight
Fog lights
Two -tonal signal
Holder for glasses
Chromeglated scope of glasses
Black central racks
Light alloy wheels with tires 205/55 R16
Sport (1.8 l; 2.0 l/200 l.
The dark upholstery of the ceiling
Roof Molding in the color of the body
Sportshassi
Adjustment of the driver's seat in 6 directions
Sports aluminum pedals
Air conditioning instead of climate control
Absent: alarm, heating of the seats, a radio tape recorder on the steering wheel,
Mp3 format, fog lights
OPC (2.0 l/240 l. P.) Additionally:
The system of dynamic stabilization
Front active head restraints
Heating the front seats
Du radio on the steering wheel
Fog lights
Rolling the steering of the steering wheel
Light alloy wheels with tires 225/40 R18
Remed for tires instead of a spare wheel
Outside
Three years have passed since the debut of Astra, but today it looks spectacular. Especially the three -door. The athlete take a look at the bumper with a large air intake, a neat spoiler above the rear window, a dashing roof line. And just a beauty, pretty lensifers, neatly inscribed in the stern of the rear lights, as if buried from the inside with hoarfrost ... Opel designers sought to create an expressive car and coped with the task of the five.
The five -door hatchback is not so extravagant, but you can’t call it faceless. The station wagon with an increased wheelbase will be appreciated by family, practical people. Finally, the sedan, which turned out to be even longer than the vector, turned out to be really status.
The most compact of the bodies, a 5-door hatchback, will be the best choice as a city family car. Five will go in it with comfort and there will still be 350 liters for baggage
The three-door astra-gtc looks most stylish and dynamic
Those who need such a body need to be considered in the first place. Thanks to the elongated base, in capacity, he is a competitor to the middle class universals
Again, any aster can be given unique dashes. For example, a common hard worker caravans. But starting with the version of Enja, from it you can create a real dandy. Order a set of beauty car (chrome in the decoration of windows, dark body racks), chrome rails, an elegant spoiler above the fifth door, play with a pattern of cast discs, color, and it is already the likelihood that you will find another car on the road, insignificant.
It is a pity that in the pursuit of expressiveness in some places the designers left the ideals of practicality. Of course, the thresholds painted in the color of the body give the appearance of the machine lightness. But after three to four tens of thousands of kilometers from constant sandblasting, the thresholds will inevitably fade. Be sure to install at least the front mudguards. Another example is unsuccessful rear doors 5-door. As if trying to extend the roof line, they were made too wide in the upper part. The profile of the machine from this really only won. But, opening this, and look at will hit a strongly protruding edge.
The sedan is collected in Turkey. He is the longest in the golf class and noticeably more conveniently cheatchback for those who travel four-five-baggage with a large baggage
On the sofa of the Cabiolet compartment will be convenient only low (up to 170 cm) to passengers. The steel roof automatically folds in 30 seconds
Otherwise, even the picky gaze will not find the flaws. It is useless to look for flaws in the coloring and fitting of body panels. On the back of the gas tank, it, by the way, along with the doors and lid of the trunk, you can block a removable nozzle from the keychain, allowing, without dirty hands, unscrewing the caps of the valves. The wheel arches are reliably covered with plastic and a thick layer of mastic. Thanks to the double seal of doorways, dust does not penetrate into the salon, and the thresholds remain clean in the weather.
And inside
Immediately after unlocking the central castle, in addition to the square of the lamps in the ceiling with soft light, devices, the central console backlight, the large screen of the flight comprehensive compartment flashes. Effective and convenient: you do not have to look for the desired button, even if the street is pitch darkness. Similar manifestations of politeness is the norm only for much more expensive cars by class and two higher.
Inside, Astra resembles a comfortable apartment decorated in the high-tech style. Devices with neat chrome halo drilled in round wells, an elegant three -spitting steering wheel, aluminum inserts in the doors and front panels inform the interior of a well -known fraction of sports. A wide and high central console and bright, large (13 cm diagonally) display give solidity. Perhaps only the dark gray upholstery looks too strictly. But this is a feature, not a flaw.
Glorily click on this lever, the turn signals are wrapped three times. Press stronger bulbs will flash longer
The pocket in the door is good for cards and magazines. Banks and bottles are difficult to place here
On the lid of the gas tank hatch plastic key for wheelbags
However, a feeling of solidity, class is still nothing more than a sensation. It is much more important that it is combined with a spacious salon. A person with a height of 185 cm is easily placed here by himself, 57 centimeters remains in front of his knees and above his head. In the sedan, even more than 1314 cm sitting on the couch on the couch.
The armrest is small in volume, but is adjustable in height
Twin-Audio system will come in handy if passengers want to listen to the radio while the driver enjoys his favorite CD
It is traditionally inconvenient to sit on the rear sofa 3-door, but the place there will have enough passengers tall up to 185 cm
However, miracles in technology do not happen, after all, this is not the middle class of a machine. On the gallery you can travel three adults. But it’s better not too far in the shoulders too far. In addition, there are no comfortable cup holders. On a can of water, you can still put in the door pockets, but there is nowhere to attach a cup of coffee at the back. And the landing on the sofa is somewhat complicated by the protruding upholstery. The feeling that interior designers simply did not have enough time: another week, and the salon would go to the top five with a plus.
The sedan has a central armrest in the back in the Cosmo version (left), the hatchback has no
Behind the wheel
The optimally selected section and steering diameter, perfectly readable devices from the first seconds are tuned to the dynamic rhythm of life. Even a full -time can of polyuritan foam is quite pleasant and stylish. In the Cosmo version, it is neatly sheathed with skin. And the most chic and convenient steering wheel is that from ORS for an additional 2600 rubles.
So, they sat down, turned on the music (with seven speakers in Engo, a very good sound), looked around ... But the owner of the hatchback or station wagon will not be spent on parking sensors. Although the rear head restraints somewhat eat a picture in the salon mirror, it is largely compensated by the large side. In addition, when maneuvering in reversing, you clearly realize: feed almost immediately behind the rear janitor. True, the coupe and sedan parking sensors will come in handy.
Another shortcoming ergonomics is unsuccessful at the very bottom of the central console, the location of the ventilation control unit. In addition, it partially blocks the lever of the CP. If the car with climate control, then rotating the handle, the desired temperature is easy to see on the monitor. Pressed on the button of the car, and the given climate is already the care of electronics. But the air conditioner has no such convenience and visualization.
In order to immediately become warm in the cabin in the cabin in the cabin, for 4250 rubles it is worth buying a quick heating system of Quick Hit. It works simply and effectively, like a regular hair dryer. A cold motor cannot yet give heat, and warm air is already blocked from the air ducts. Similar are only on large expensive sedans.
Governing bodies
1. Block of electric windows. 2. A remote control for mirrors. 3. The control unit of overall lights and near light. 4. The wheel adjustment fixer. 5. Information display. 6. Alarm switch. 7. Blocking button of the central lock. 8. Radio control and MP3 Magnetic. 9. Climate control unit.
Dashboard
1. Tachometer. 2. Signal lamps. 3. Fuel level indicator. 4. The odometer. 5. A speedometer.
We load the suitcases
Let's just say, there is nothing to surprise the hatchback in this discipline. The trunk is not a small 350 liter, but also not a record holder. Yes, a few bags with things, products with food and even children's sledges, he will swallow with ease. If you remove the shelf, a 29 -inch TV will fit here. And having folded the back entirely (it is possible in parts in a ratio of 60:40), get an impressive, albeit an uneven, cargo platform in size of 1507 x 949 mm.
The stall is also well equipped. On the left of the lighting ceiling, on the right, a recess with a fastener strap for a first -aid kit. There is a special place for the emergency stop and a 12-volt outlet. But almost all these advantages are already with many competitors today. You expect more from the modern German car.
Set of nets for the station wagon for 3000 rubles. will fasten both small and large luggage
It is bad that the form of the opening due to muscular arches (the distance between them is only 95 cm), large rear lights and a massive transverse beam, which, obviously, allowed the body’s hardness, is too narrowed below. And the Big Bumper did not allow to reduce the loading height. Another flaw covering the spare wheel is a soft, villing coating. Other competitors have long been using the lids folding in parts. Astra rug is quite difficult to fix. Yes, and the reserve itself lies down. To get a screwdriver or wrench stored in it, the wheel will have to be removed.
The holds of the sedan and the station wagon, of course, are more. With a 5-seater layout, any cargo carriage will take away, and almost the bed can be immersed in the ara-channel. The length of the trunk, if you fold the back of the sofa, is 1820 mm not every middle class universal can boast of such a convenient platform.
Car dimensions, mm
Salon dimensions, mm
Safety
If a lot of pre -equipment is intended for lovers of active lifestyle, then security care is already laid down in the basic Astra. There are four pillows, traumatic pedals, ABS with an emergency braking amplifier. If desired, this kit can be supplemented with active head restraints and inflatable curtains in front and back. True, the latter are very expensive 22,000 rubles. The well -coordinated work of such arsenal allowed Aster with 34 points to join the prestigious club of five -star Euroncap laureates.
Gorgeous, much more effective than the former astrah, brakes work on your safety. I was convinced of their abilities from my own experience when a tractor with a tee of Silos was cut down in front of me on a suburban highway. A little later, I believed my enthusiasm with strict mathematics at the Dmitrovsky training ground. It turned out that until a complete stop with 100 km/h on dry asphalt, the Astra requires only 39.5 m almost the best result in the class.
If you are a real fan of security, you can supplement the ESP car, rotary headlights, tire pressure sensor and even a help system at the start at the rise. Finally, the IDS+interactive control system is intended for the most gambling drivers. The rigidity of the suspension, the operation of the steering wheel amplifier, the speed of response to the gas pedal will change depending on the driving style.
However, spend on IDS+ 24,000 rubles. Not necessary at all. Because even without it, Astra turned out to be an outstanding fighter.
On straight lines and in corners It feels like a 115-horsepower car is much more dynamic than it promises its modest 11.7 from to hundreds. But most importantly, it infects excitement. Only a little twist the engine with idle, and at 22002500 rpm it will be lucky very confidently. And after 3500 you do not notice how the motor is twisted to the maximum.
You have to get used to only a rather long, as in many German cars, the adhesion pedal in traffic jams bothers. But you immediately forget about this on free prospectus and outside the city, starting to go much faster where this should not be done. The speedometer arrow is easy to lay on the mark of 180. The car is assembled, completely in the power of the driver and it seems that it is only pressed to the ground with an increase in speed. Unless on some machines there is an insufficiently clear operation of the manual transmission during a quick transition from the second to the first gear. Such a sin was, by the way, on the former asters. He was completely eradicated in a new 6-speed transmission, but it was installed only on 2-liter and so far that diesel versions have not reached Russia.
Those who want to abandon mechanics have a choice. With motors of 1.4 and 1.6 l, a robotic box of Isetronics is combined, which allows you to switch in manual mode. Of course, the 90-horsepower option cannot boast of dynamics. But the 115-horsepower Astra with Iseronik, not only 2.5 s, accelerates faster to hundreds, but also due to better burden allows you to almost exclude sharp jerks during daily urban driving. It is better if you immediately get used to a little cleaning the leg from the gas during switching, the next step in the box will enter the work inconspicuous.
Not ready to make such a compromise? Choose a time-tested combination of a 1.8-liter motor and a full-fledged 4-speed machine. With it, Astra easily allows you to leave the first in the city from a traffic light and does not lose vigor when driving with full load.
Even better, the brisk character of a 140-horsepower engine is suitable for manual transmission. Powerful, elastic, burdened, in the 110120 km/h mode, it turns out to be more economically less than a lesser in a passport of 1.6 and is especially suitable for a heavier sedan or a station wagon.
However, regardless of the motor and the type of transmission, it is quickly ranging and well -tuned suspension. On the arc, Astra is holding out perfectly. He knows how to quietly swallow irregularities and does not suffer from excessive vertical swing. Little by little, you begin to get true pleasure from how it passes. And I want the bends to be more and more.
Against this background, a tall, almost like middle -class machines, smoothness. And the sedan and station wagon built on the elongated base have a lulling character. Under the wheels of the paving stones, tiles along the tram tracks about all these road non -winged Opel reports only with light wheels. Unless the joints of the overpass, where even ML or RX350 shakes well, make the chassis loudly transfer the blows to the body.
Noble behavior successfully complements excellent sound insulation. The wind licking racks and mirrors becomes noticeable far beyond the speed limits permitted in Russia by 150160 km/h, not earlier. The motor is clearly heard only when it cannot be heard, after 3500 4000 rpm. The noise from the wheels traditionally depends on the type of tires. You can find continental, Michelen, Bridgostone as full -time on the Astra. The latter are the least talkative.
Engine
1. Engine oil probe. 2. The cork of the oil -polling neck of the engine. 3. Clot of the glass of the glass gunner. 4. The tank of the cooling system. 5. The tank of the main brake cylinder. 6. Battery battery. 7. Air filter case.
On the ground
Knowing about very short overhangs and a muffler pulled to the bottom, I was able to cross the pontoon, with steep excesses through the OKU, painlessly. And at the entrance to the dacha, the anti -corrosion coating of the bottom in the rut was not scrape off 15 centimeters deep. After all, hatchbacks and sedans come to us already with a road clearance increased up to the crankcase. It will not be superfluous to order the factory steel protection of the crankcase 4000 rubles. Although the dealer often offers to put it already in Russia.
Notice that the station wagon thanks to more powerful springs is one and a half centimeters higher. For a caravan costs for 7700 rubles. Order the rear shock absorbers nivomat, regardless of the loading of the feed, will be at a decent distance from the ground.
Operation, service
For a long time in the service of Astra remained one of the cheapest cars of a foreign brand. Now the growth of its popularity allows dealers to inflate prices. As a result, Norma now costs 1200,1400 rubles, for 200400 rubles. More former. But spare parts are still comparable in price with many Europeans and Japanese. And the basic tariff of CASCO for the car is not at 7%.
It is ordered to carry out every 15,000 km or once a year. For all cars, the plant gives a 2-year guarantee without limiting a run. Only since the summer, some dealers have a number of restrictions on obligations during the second year of operation. Claims may not be accepted, for example, to shock absorbers, glass, brake discs and clutch, interior decoration elements, the entire list takes the whole page. Something similar today is found in dealers of Korean brands and Ford. However, in the service books of those who bought Astra in the spring, there were no talk of such restrictions.
You can serve at any of the official dealers. Their network today includes 56 technical centers from Murmansk to Sochi and from Ufa to Pskov. Most centers in Moscow 17 and St. Petersburg 7. In the struggle for the client, the majority offers all kinds of funded discounts.
It is worth remembering that in the motor of your new astra, half -synthetic oil of Opel is flooded. After two to three thousand, the dealer, as a rule, recommends changing it. For the manufactured new components, this is justified. However, to maintain a guarantee, it is not at all necessary.
We liked
Spacious and convenient trunk universal
Strict, noble salon, very convenient steering wheel OPC
Big, thought -out glove box
And:
Front seats profile and shape
Decent sound insulation
The richest selection of options
Sensation of a higher class car
Great brakes
Acute handling of cars with a sports suspension
Energy -intensive suspension of serial versions
We didn't like it
Low-located climate control unit
Narrow trunk of the hatchback and the absence of the inner handle on the lid of the trunk of the sedan
The inconvenient arrangement of the tool
Strongly protruding edge of the back door of the hatchback
And:
High cost of many options and spare parts
Underwater stones in warranty obligations
Insufficient for Russian roads protection against dirt of the motor compartment
Opel Astra 1.6 MT (1.8 AT)
Total information
Body, number of places/doors
Hatchback, 5/5
Equipped mass, kg
1230 (1280)
Speed, km/h
185 (188)
Acceleration 0-100 km/h, with
11.7 (12.7)
Fuel consumption, l/100 km highway/city
5.2/8.7 (6.4/10.7)
Fuel supply, l
52
Engine
Location
Front transversely
Design
gasoline, 4-cylinder, in order, with two upper camshafts
Diam. cylinder x Piston stroke, mm
79x81.5 (80.5x88.2)
Working volume, SMZ
1598 (1796)
Compression ratio
10.5: 1
Power, L.S. at rpm
115/6000 (140/6300)
Twisting, kgsm at rpm
15.8/4000 (17.9/3800)
Chassis
Drive unit
On the front wheels
Transmission
5-st. mechanical (4-st. Automatic)
Transporting numbers
3.73; 2.14; 1.41; 1.12; 0.89; 3.31
(2,81; 1,48; 1; 0,74; -; 2,77)
main gear
3.94 (4,12)
Suspension:
spring
in front
Independent, on the racks of McExeson
behind
semi -dependent, elastic transverse beam
Steering
rack type with amplifier
Brakes
disk, in front ventilated
Tires
205/65 R16
Car
from 0.15 $/km
Prices for spare parts and then
TO1 (15,000 km) 5600-6000
TO2 (30,000 km) 9000-9600
TO3 (45,000 km) 5600-6000
TO2 (60,000 km) 18 000-18 800
Oil filter 140
Air filter 350
Spark plug (1 pc.) 170
Front brake pads/rear 2600/2900
Tip of steering thrust 1090
The steering thrust is 1100
Ball support 1170
Front shock absorber/rear 2800/2100
Front/rear wing 3300/7300
Hood 10,200
Front/back door 12 900/12 600
Front bumper assembly 10 400
Rear bumper assembly 10 640
Windshield 7600
Side glass 1700
Front headlight 5700
Rear lamp 3200
We decided:
By the sum of consumer qualities and a variety of modifications, Astra has become a unique offer. It will be a real find for those who want to build a European machine in accordance with personal desires and, when choosing a modification, is not yet insanely expensive. You can buy it in one of the standard equipment. You will receive a safe, maneuverable, economical car anyway.
Alexey Sergeev, photo of Maxim Goncharov, author and Opel
Source: Magazine buy a car [23/2007]
