This station model here, smart-looking car is the new Opel (Vauxhall or the United Kingdom) Sports Tourer and Astra revealed before its world premiere at the Paris Motor Show on 2 October. It is on sale across Europe in November.
The exterior design of the Astra Sports Tourer is reminiscent of the ST badge, and is a good thing. Unlike its predecessor Square, the Opel design team, led by Mark Adams opted for the design of a "lifestyle property" with a sloping roofline and a tail less perpendicular.
The Sports Tourer its brand with its five-door sibling, with the same wheelbase 2685 mm long and front and rear tracks of 1544 and 1558 mm respectively.
The European unit of GM has not released pictures of the inside, but the design will be more or less the same as the five-door hatchback version of the Astra. Opel said that cab has 75 liters of storage space or 50 percent more than the previous generation car.
The new Astra ST also has a new rear seat FlexFold allows each section of the bank of 60/40 split rear seats are both reduced the touch of a button on the side walls of the cellar.
With the rear seat backs down, the cargo load length is increased to 1835 mm, 28 mm more than the current Astra wagon. According to Opel, the cargo volume of the TS can be adjusted between 500 and 1550 liters. In comparison, the VW Golf Variant offers between 560 and 1550 liters of cargo space.
In Europe, the powertrain alignment Astra Sports Tourer will include eight petrol and diesel engines ranging in power from 95HP to 180hp, including a turbocharged 1.4-liter diesel with 140 horsepower and a diesel 2.0 liter turbo 160 - horsepower that returns a combined fuel consumption of 5.1 lt/100km (equal to 46.1mpg U.S. and 55.4mpg UK) with 134 g / km CO2 emissions.
GM has no official plans for States Astra Sports Tourer. However, since it is essentially a wagon version of China, recently unveiled the Buick Excelle which is scheduled for a year in the U.S. next time, could not resist asking whether GM should consider the Sports Tourer offer in the states. Give us your opinion in the comments.
Opel Astra Sports Tourer
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Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer
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