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O NOES A VAUXHALL! Pieces of crap. :p




Mind you mines has never missed a beat, and only needed servicing and consumables for the past 3 years. Cheap motoring, but as you would expect from a modernish car really.
 
will_expert said:
That was coming from a 12 year old who wants a Mondeo as his first car :confused:
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Do shut up :) . You are wrong about my age by quite a few years , get your facts right before posting..
edit: you have made pathetic digs about my age a couple of times now.. is that all you can use against me?
 
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TangoSixteen said:
Lol why is that Jane woman stalking me!

Most strange, Im taken hunni sorry!

My point was that for people that just want a new, clean, tidy, "reliable" car, who don't want a Supra, or an EVO with 650BHP on tap etc etc then an Astra makes a reasonably good car.

Lets be serious here... you would not spec a blade server or a Dual Socket Quad Xeon monster for your mum or sister to browse the web on, you would recommend a generic, rubbish, slow PC, that gets the job done and no more.

There is no problem with the choice of car, nor generally speaking, its reliability OR performance (and yes, its woeful, but not as literally life sappingly woeful as the 1.4)

I have driven a staggeringly large amount of modern cars, and while most are totally devoid of character, feel, dynamics etc... things have certainly moved on, and £5K (I hope) on an Astra is certainly not the end of the world as we know it, and could almost be classified as a sensible choice for a young person on a budget.

I'm not really sure this needs to be about the car, but should be more about whether he got good value for money, and i really hope for his sake he did NOT pay £10K for it. Having said that, why are people saying he could have got a flipping V8 Jag for the same money?!! One is a clapped out gas guzzler that will cost him limbs to fix, the other is a cheap, light, run around, that looks modern and tidy....

OP, was it £10k ? You could have bought speedboat for that!?! LULZZ LOL ETC
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I wanted a ctr real badly, I love my hondas but the insurance premiums even with 5 years no claims was staggering.. I have a son whos 9 months old, I needed something thats practical, safe, smooth to drive and looks alright. I shopped around, looking at all different types of cars.. I didnt want a civic if it wasnt a type r so I was hard on what to buy. I seen this and thought "I like that" and towards the end of the day it was the only car that apealed to me. It was advertised at 7k due to low milage and I got them down to 6.2k with a free years warrenty with rac and a full service. Dont really know where the 10k came from :confused:

Im happy with it, and the price I paid and thats all that counts really. Love all this slating though :P

I could have bought many a car, but with my budget it was either performance or practicality.. My insurance swayed my decision away from performance so I choose something I liked. Some might say its a horrible ride, but take it from a guy who has drove bangers all his life it feels a luxury. All I wanted was a car that felt new, looked nice(to me) and in my opinion feels nice to drive. I'm not into racing anymore, Not into going fast. I go to work and drive a few miles here and there, and I needed something practical for my son as hes my main priority.

If its any consolation I hate vauxhall myself, but I've always been a fan of the astra.. I've already had digs of "ashtray" but hey, comming from a car forum elsewhere I can take constructive criticism :D

A car is basically what you like and want, not what every other person feels. I like it, and there must be a lot of others who like them too as now I have one I see them way too often on the roads :p
 
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