Test drive Opel Astra Sedan 1998 - 2008 Sedan

How to become a star

Opel is now one of the most aggressive players on the golf field. Astra was a success to the Germans for glory: thousands of neat sedans, hatchbacks and station wagons found their owners in the European latitudes. Inexpensive and not serious, what else does a prosperous bourgeois need? However, sometimes I really want to saddle a machine that looks like your, but not like anything more! Opel fans have every chance of maintaining individuality without going beyond the class frames, just transfer to the Bertone Astra compartment.
In my opinion, this is a compartment in a profile and in three quarters an example of a wonderful transformation of a simple Astra pumpkin into a real carriage! Especially the car is the well -being of a golden metallic metallic. Departure to people guarantees the attention of outsiders who will surely appreciate your choice and work of the Italian master perfectly. It is only a pity that if you look at the car in front and back, nothing gives out in the familiar features of a practical hatchback of compartment luxury. Astra as Astra. But on the side is really good! ..
The salon meets the virgin whiteness of luxurious seats. And if most consumers scolds light tones of upholstery for stingility and impracticality, then I will allow myself to notice that, regardless of the color of the mud seats, exactly the same amount sticks to them! The only difference is that on a white background it is visible, but on the dark there is practically no. Therefore, I consider the light skin in the design of the interior the most practical option in which case can always be found in advance and removed with a velvet before they sank your elegant cream costume ...
Ergonomics are thought out to the smallest detail, but among these trifles there are also annoying ones. A sports steering wheel for without twenty -four has decorative castings, which somewhat complicate comfortable work with a steering wheel in this sector. The driver’s seat is slightly lacking in the depth of the pillow adjustment in height planting is notishable, which personally delivered some inconvenience during the ride until I wound the first thousand km and was not used to it. And the left wiper is literally lacking a couple of centimeters of length to clean almost the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe windshield from rain and dirt. Otherwise, to the Astra, neither from the side of the driver, nor from the passengers there can be no reasonable claims.
   
Under the hood, an atmospheric motor with a volume of 2198 cm3. Power 147 hp, moment 203 Newton. 8 kg per horse is enough to disperse the car in an incomplete 10 seconds to a hundred and take it to a maximum speed of 212 km/h. The engine is ambiguous with a magnificent 4-speed automatic gearbox. At first, it even seems that Astra has two KP: one works as usual, and the second begins to work when the button on the controller is activated by Sport. In this case, the atmosphere easily drives the tachometer arrow for 6000, and according to the sensations, the machine reacts so sensitively to any movement of the fuel feed pedal that even the hyperactive driver has the thought of mechanics once and for all.
Ryusselhaim answered the question that worries many to become a star? With an ease, worthy of a drive car manufacturer. First you just need to make a good golf car. Then find one of the best car couturiers and offer him complete freedom in choosing the style and composition of the work. The result will not be long in coming: it is enough to provide a sketch ready for production with a worthy mechanical component and a new bright point will flare up on the road. Having admired it, you will stop missing the caliber and the tiger Opel did not forgot how to light new stars on the automobile sky!
Text Alexey Mochanov,
Photo Alexander Nozdrin
 

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