Pretty ballsy move by Vauxhall...

[Gide76]

I thought Vauxhall already had quite drastic weight saving with their paper thin dash plastics and deck chair quality seats.

No thanks.


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[Degudodger]

Design wise, its a bit too balls out for me 

[simonp]

I thought Vauxhall already had quite drastic weight saving with their paper thin dash plastics and deck chair quality seats.

No thanks.

You do know they stopped making the Nova some years back?

As the article states, the Astra was already too heavy, so it needed to go on a diet anyway. Shame they've not done it to the standard model, it might do something about the high CO2 figure...

[Gide76]

Yeah sadly I do. I've been subjected to a series of Vauxhall hire cars over the years. Zafiras, vectras and Astras and without fail the interiors have been awful. Thin metal bar to adjust the seats from the 80s, crap plastics and horrid silver painted plastic centre consoles. Truly awful cars. My old mk2 put them to shame, I fact even a mk1 focus is better


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[Dubs]

Chav-tastic. I've known tic-tac boxes put together better than most Vauxhalls.

[dan930]

I don't like it...very max power

[xjay1337]

Chav-tastic. I've known tic-tac boxes put together better than most Vauxhalls.

Have to agree.

I'm not going to mug off cars, a mate has had two Vauxhall Corsas and both times there's been lots of annoying little things.. like his brand new VXR within 6 months the lights behind the heater controls packed up so one of the dials wasn't lit up..
Everything you touch feels "cheap". I had a DS3 for a week and that had some cheap touches sure, but everything at sort of hand/eye level was soft touch where as the vauxhall it's all crackly scratchy plastic.

[MAT ED30]

had a new astra hire car a few weeks ago the 1.4 turbo well it was ok as a daily but inside was very cheap and plastic and when you put the handbrake down your hand hit the gearstick surround  did drive ok though and plenty of room but not special at all but if your just after a car as a daily its not bad.

[chris-182]

Yeah sadly I do. I've been subjected to a series of Vauxhall hire cars over the years. Zafiras, vectras and Astras and without fail the interiors have been awful. Thin metal bar to adjust the seats from the 80s, crap plastics and horrid silver painted plastic centre consoles. Truly awful cars. My old mk2 put them to shame, I fact even a mk1 focus is better


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mk1 focus are brilliant cars! they just keep going no matter what!

[Gide76]

Yeah have to agree my gf had a 2.0 zetec 3 door from new. It has never missed a beat and has worn well. Handles brilliantly.

Just referenced it as a similarly priced car to the vauxhalls yet better in so many ways. 


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[chris-182]

ahh yeah, a much better car than the Astra in all variants! just like the fiesta is to the corsa and so on

[simonp]

The 1.8 TDCi wasn't a good car. Borderline dangerous, I'd say, they pulled away so slowly!

[tony_danza]

LOL..

As I said, it's not really about the 'quality' of the car (although the VXR is winning a lot of praise, as is the ST)... It's the stones to put out a track spec model with some serious spec/consideration.

In real terms it costs a manufacturer very little to do something like this, and it's what people have been craving for years and try to emulate with modding their own cars. Sure, actual buyers may be low, but then that helps with residuals. R26.R still circling £15-16k. R26s are £6-7k.

[simonp]

What also helps with the R26.R is that they only managed to sell half of them!

[tony_danza]

True, but that was more the fault of the world's economy falling apart. I believe Renault drip fed a load back into the UK a few years later.