Today is "Smoke the New Astra Day"

[Zak33]

Off to Millbrook today for New Astra Launch.

If its half as good as the press says and if it gains as much over the last one as the Vectra gained over the last shower of cack....then its gonna be a top top car.

Hope it doesn't die on me

[Russ]

supposed to have "better build quality than Audi's" according to my Vuax garage

[Jiff Lemon]

Wow, cars and bikes is gonna be quiet today then

Have fun old chap - Free buffet too?

[Trash Man]

supposed to have "better build quality than Audi's" according to my Vuax garage

Now this I have gotta see

have a good`en Zak

[Howard]

It doesn't look half as nice as the new Audi A3

Audis are lovely cars

Enjoy though Zak!

[Zak33]

Be on the bowl by 2pm.......

on the handling track by 3pm....

and my mate Pat Flynn who runs the 205 Challenge is in charge of theRide and Drive

Zak's day sorted

[Zak33]

ooooooooooooohhhhhh....

a peach

The only thing to say is.....Golf seats STILL go lowest........they get you on thew GROUND.....Meganes DO corner......307's DO suck (Im sad about that....I love Peugeot...but its not happening).....and Astras really might be world beaters.

SO far....well impressed

[Tumble]

the seats in my Mini go an awful long way towards the floor.... further in fact than the V-dub I drove for a while at Datacentre (Polo). Got in mine when I first got the key (the Mini that is) and realised I could only just see over the wheel

[DR]

.... and my reviewsample?

[Zak33]

it got damaged by Citylink

[Rave]

307's DO suck (Im sad about that....I love Peugeot...but its not happening)

I'm glad to hear that. I had one as a hire car on Holiday, and I was worried that it was just that all modern cars are crud. The TD engine was nice, but the handling was nasty. The Spanish seem to think that the best way of building a motorway bridge over a massive ravine is to have a corner just before the bridge, with a big bump just as the bridge starts to unsettle the car. Attempt it at any sort of decent speed in a 307 and you'll have a sphincter tightening moment as you wobble towards a 200m drop. Hopefully I'll get a Focus or Leon this year....or a new Astra of course.

Rich :¬)

[Zak33]

It feels, Rave, like a high top car...like an MPV that never made it to the right height....but that is not a hatch either.

Its VERY comfy...but oh...where has the fun gone

Reminds me of a 306 Sedan.....(the saloon booted version of a 306)..god knows WHY that was so poor when its sister was such a sex kitten

[Rave]

Yeah, it's too tall, that's the problem. A lot of cars seem to be growing upwards now, the latest Corolla and Civic look stupidly tall to me too, and I was a bit concerned that the Astra might have succumbed when I saw the first piccies of it. Still, if it's only the 307 that can't keep itself going where it's pointed then I guess that tallness isn't the problem per se, just bad design.

Rich :¬)