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Automotive News & Views Saturn gets Opel Astra
154 messages, Last post on Feb 21, 2008 at 2:23 PM
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Replying to: harrychezt (Apr 24, 2007 11:26 pm) would be interesting to see how good of fuel economy a Astra, would get ? Also would be interesting to see what a 2-mode version would give us ?  Rocky
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Get the diesel: http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/3997177a21495.html
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Replying to: bumpy (Apr 25, 2007 6:33 am) Rocky
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Replying to: rockylee (Apr 25, 2007 6:41 am) 
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Replying to: bumpy (Apr 25, 2007 6:48 am) Rocky
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Replying to: rockylee (Apr 25, 2007 6:50 am)
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Replying to: bumpy (Apr 25, 2007 7:10 am) Yeah, you are correct once again but I believe the 2-Mode will go into cars as well as capacity increases. Remember they are sharing this technology with Chrysler, and BMW. Rocky |
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Replying to: rockylee (Apr 24, 2007 11:41 pm) GM likes putting its 2.2/2.4 liter ECOTEC into every small car application that it can. And, since the current vehicle emphasis is on POWER, I'd be moderately surprised if the car breaks 24 mpg in mixed driving.
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Replying to: carthell (Jun 10, 2007 8:39 am) We have had these for ages. http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/ |
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http://www.caranddriver.com/carnews/12137/2008-saturn-astra.html Also, claims 08 MPG should be 23/31. I heard one guy said he looked up Opel from overseas, (he did not send the link or name of it. Sorry)....and 0-60 with automatic was around 10.5 seconds. Hope it's not that slow. If it takes more than 9.5 seconds to 60, and does not get 45-50 MPG... I might pass. I do too much hwy driving to get too slow of a car these days( and I drove a 90 Nissan Sentra of times around 11 seconds to 60, and a Chevy Spectrum around 12 seconds to 60, in 87). Back then, cars were smaller, saw a lot of 85-95 MPH speedometers on cars back then,simialr 0-60 times, etc.. Today? Too many Huge Vehicles out there to hope to dodge them with a slow car. Take care, not offense. Maybe if they bring out a larger engine....
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