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Opel Astra Sedan: Here and now

The four-door Astra-N appeared three years after the debut of the hatchback. However, lingering at the start, the car is in no hurry to finish: now the astral sedan has turned into one of the most profitable offers in the classroom and acts as a very interesting alternative to a promoted polo-sedan, the line for which was lined up for six months.


Opel-Astra-Sedan, from 604 650 rubles, Car 5.36 rubles/km
 
After a 220-horsepower all-wheel drive insignia, transplanted to the sedan, who plays for the national team of the past generation, it seems to be painfully slow, it seems to be painfully slow! The four-speed automatic machine is quite lazy assisting the 140-horsepower motor: a traffic light, which costs a hundred meters from the front bumper, is approaching, as if in slow-off shooting. I click on the button with the image of a snowflake located near the box of the box selector, and I notice how a unit appears in the tachometer window instead of a three (it is from it in winter mode) and now the wheels are already shod in the toothy Hakkapelitta-7, they cut the hotel passage shut .
It turns out that the engine is by no means toothless! And when the sport was pressed on the key, the sedan ended at all, as if bitten into the luggage part: I had to check my own reaction, tearing into ABS chatter and frightening the driver with a quick scan of the car.

It turns out that in vain I slandered the motor. And the box, it turns out, gives the impression of slow only because it protects your wallet: even with an accelerator, it switches up upon reaching 3000 rpm and the fourth gear is already selected by 50 km/h. But on a fierce February day, when the air temperature dropped to -22OS, the Astra had drove exactly a hundred miles in Moscow, demanding only 12.4 liters of gasoline for its services. The modest indicator, taking into account the fact that I overcame a good quarter of the route in sports mode with constant appeal to the first gear, repeatedly driving the tachometer arrow to 5000 rpm.
However, the fact that the car is taught to drive quickly and not swing in turns does not mean that it is intended for this.
The spectacular three -door hatch GTC is much more suitable for the active driver, while the unhurried promenade along the city streets and the calm long -range trips are more than enough for such a power reserve to be more than enough. I remember, and a weaker 115-horsepower engine is able to confidently accelerate from cruising 100 km/h, even taking into account the condenses on the full coil of the conde, was checked by the sunny hell of the last August. True, it was a car on the arm. Such an engine can be automated difficult for understanding and often a capricious robot of Iseronik, from which there are more irritations than amenities.
It is better to add to an absolutely complete combination of a 1.8-liter motor and even if not the latest, but an honest machine, especially since by current standards this option seems more attractive. Who else can offer a similar size sedan with automatic transmission for 600 thousand? And let Astra formally live in a golf class, her dimensions and capacity allow her to participate not only in the class struggle, but also to shoot at larger comrades. As a matter of fact, the vector, which had gone to the rest of the size, was almost the same!

Competitors have nothing to object. A little cheaper, but worse, equipped with kia-tserato, and in terms of quality of decoration to Opel does not, and Mazda-3, Honda Sivik and even the folk Ford focus are more expensive. Having confiring the acutely deficiency Polo-Secian, I found that in a comparable configuration it is less than one hundred thousand. A lot, of course, but the Astra is noticeably more powerful, spacious and prestigious. And most importantly, you can buy it even today!
Don't like the car from the warehouse? Even if you place an order, you will receive Opel anyway before Volkswagen. In addition, unlike many competitors, the astra can be configured as the soul wishes: the options are practically not attached to the equipment version. Say, the democratic Ango-1,6 can be equipped with prestigious xenon headlights, and for an affordable price.



 

Source: Behind the wheel