New Company Car Choices
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Well you could get a lemon either way? It's going to be a brand new car with warranty maybe choose the best one that drives and what options it has you require. The Seat is night and day in terms of reliability in that choice so perhaps you should have suggested this brand?
They do?! Source?
Whilst this might have held up with mk5 astras and the equivalent corsa im not convinced it is the case any more. The previous astra is a car I prefer over the early mk3 focus, and I completely forgot there was a new one out if I'm honest.
Our fiesta is also the "most unreliable" small car we've ever had (even though what's gone wrong with it is actually small, silly things that I've fixed). That's in amongst all sorts of French tat
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The new Astra beat the Focus in a What Car group test. The 1.4 150PS engine is also a cracker, and given the car weighs a lot less than it's predecessor and the competition, is more than enough power for most people.
With the Astra SRi you'll get OnStar, which is pretty cool.
I should get my Astra by the end of March.
With the Astra SRi you'll get OnStar, which is pretty cool.
I should get my Astra by the end of March.
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[TW]Fox;29219457 said:
yeah but its a vauxhall.
I'm not going to make claims I can't substantiate, but after my experience of owning the vectra I wouldn't own another one. Plus, the focus has always had the better driving dynamics. Reading auto express
That hasn't changed.
In fairness, you've owned the one of the worst cars Vauxhall have made so your reluctance is understandable.
The astra always gets a bashing on this site, no idea why... I've never had any real issue with a 10 year old mk5 in the 4 years i've had it. I've also got a mk5 van i've had since new and I've done 81k so far and not one fault.
Cant see it being any different than the focus unless it has the same crappy 6 speed gearbox some vauxhalls have.
Cant see it being any different than the focus unless it has the same crappy 6 speed gearbox some vauxhalls have.
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Exactly - it's the best of both worlds.
Quite. Who wants sporty in an auto hatchback with a small engine?
What's this I see? An Opel being viable alternative to a VAG and Focus? And people prising its tech? Tell me about Opels. Have they entered dual clutch automatic gearbox tech yet or do they still plow into 21st century with rebobiddylloxed old school traditional torq converter boxes upped to 6 speeders? Do they still make Astra tow rear passengers over potholes on torsion beam at the back?
There's a little bit of new MK6 stock still around, but most stock and all factory orders will be MK7.
The spec listed by the OP is MK7.
Yes, like the step back taken by many VAG cars on Golfs platform in this generation, the biggest complaint among VAG buyers.
As OP stated " It has to be automatic gearbox for medical reasons". And yes - Ford's PowerShift is dual clutch system with slight edge on DSG.
I've read it and fair enough - step up vs old Astra, thumbs up, but what exactly am I being impressed by, it all seems to be half a decade later than the competition. Maybe with exception of bizarrely antiquated and yankee-like service of dialling a call centre for directions.