US gets Astra

Geoff · Postby **Geoff** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:43 am

This should be interesting
http://www.saturn.com/saturn/vehicles/astra/presale/index.jsp?&seo=goo_astra_general

The rest of the world has has the Astra for a long time. There seem to be a lot of privateer rally teams running Astras. So it will be interesting to see how the car does, what it is actually like, and if it will have dumbed-down suspension for the US market.

fiasco · Postby **fiasco** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:57 am

According to the mainstream car mags, the new Astra has the same suspension as the Yurrupean version, but only one fairly anemic engine available.

--Andrew, who rocked a Saturn for a couple years

Postby **max** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:08 am

Maybe the Astra will become a fleet car, like it is in the UK... I know they used it heavily as a cop car.

airsweden · Postby **airsweden** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 11:20 am

Don't worry, GM never misses and opportunity to take an almost nice car and give it the Chevy treatment.

Hasn't everybody already been impressed enough with north america's Astra....... NG 900, 9-3 and 9-3 ss.

What about that Malibu........ pretty sweet huh?

I'd rather see that tiny ford deal with the 1400cc turbo motor, the latest fiesta whatever its called in rally trim. Not the ka!

Wish SAAB and VOLVO coulda got in each others stuff instead of giving it up to GM and FORD.

The thought of a new awd turbo rally car designed and built in Sweden makes me feel naughty.

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Postby **max** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:33 pm

airsweden wrote:Don't worry, GM never misses and opportunity to take an almost nice car and give it the Chevy treatment. Hasn't everybody already been impressed enough with north america's Astra....... NG 900, 9-3 and 9-3 ss. What about that Malibu........ pretty sweet huh?

I'd rather see that tiny ford deal with the 1400cc turbo motor, the latest fiesta whatever its called in rally trim. Not the ka!

Wish SAAB and VOLVO coulda got in each others stuff instead of giving it up to GM and FORD. The thought of a new awd turbo rally car designed and built in Sweden makes me feel naughty.

Don't even get me started on Ford's inability to ship a decent small car over here...

Geoff · Postby **Geoff** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:38 pm

max wrote:Don't even get me started on Ford's inability to ship a decent small car over here...

One of my favorite new cars I saw at the SAAB Festival was this Fiesta:

Postby **Jordan** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:00 pm

What Geoff really meant to say is....

I'll give you a fiesta... IN MY PANTS :mrgreen:

Postby **max** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:54 am

See, even the fiesta is cool in Europe. They even have an SVT version.

Geoff · Postby **Geoff** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:02 am

Jordan wrote:What Geoff really meant to say is....

I'll give you a fiesta... IN MY PANTS

I got your fiesta right here!

airsweden · Postby **airsweden** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:14 am

That is a neat car..........

I just wish Geoff had some bigger pictures of it

DeLorean · Postby **DeLorean** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 1:30 am

when ever Geoff posts anything, my computer crashes

I mean damn, if they were 1/5 the resolution they would still be 3X larger than my screen!

Geoff · Postby **Geoff** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:30 pm

They fit fine on my screen at work! My 17" monitor at home is something totally different... Of course I'm on dial-up there so I don't look at photos I've posted! :-P

A guy at work wrote me a program that re-sizes all images in a folder. I've been wanting to resize all those photos but I haven't gotten around to it (I need to have a bunch of time to kill at someone's house who has high speed internets).

Crazyswede · Postby **Crazyswede** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:17 pm

you could just get a smugmug account for $40 a year....I can even get you a $5 discount. I upload my fullsize images and then when you view them you can choose what size to look at them in.

Geoff · Postby **Geoff** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:24 pm

Or I can just upload them to the SR server and bog things down :-P

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