Our Fleet Test Drive: Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer - 5th report
Date:
21 November 2011
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Author: Hugh Hunston
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The Astra Sports Tourer has built-in green credentials courtesy of being the market's only lower medium estate car produced in Britain - at the Ellesmere Port Merseyside factory. Consequently, it did not need to be hauled by road transporter across Europe from one of GM's continental assembly outposts and therefore has a smaller carbon footprint.
That eco factor is part of a production/sales/clientele virtuous circle as corporate customers, known for being more likely to select greener cars than retail customers, dominate Sports Tourer sales.
Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer 1.7 CDTi SRi | Mileage | 1820 | Claimed combined consumption | 62.8mpg | Our average consumption | 45.6mpg | Forecast CPM | 54.7p | Actual CPM | 56.5p | Why we’re running it | To see if the latest Astra wagon can shake off its predecessors’ stigma of being a utilitarian workhorse. | Positive | Loading bay access, seat folding | Negative | Door mirrors don’t fold |
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