Our Fleet Test Drive: Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer - 9th report
Date:
07 February 2012
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Author: Hugh Hunston
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With its SRi specification, denoted by small tacky badges on our Astra estate's front flanks, you get a bundle of 'sporty' equipment, but incongruously the rear windows are of the manual variety.
As a result, an inattentive passenger did not apply enough effort to closing the left nearside pane, which explains steamy windows on several mornings courtesy of a damp interior.
Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer 1.7 CDTi SRi | Mileage | 3200 | Claimed combined consumption | 62.8mpg | Our average consumption | 46.6mpg | Forecast CPM | 54.7p | Actual CPM | 55.8p | Why we’re running it | To see if the latest Astra wagon can shake off its predecessors’ stigma of being a utilitarian workhorse. | Positive | Cabin offers civilised working conditions
| Negative | Economy remains stubbornly average |
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