New car pics

[ViolentJ]

Sorry they're not great and the car was fairly clean before I got there lol

It's a 58 Reg Vauxhall Astra Estate, 1.8 vvt automatic in Design spec.

 

[Bubbles]

it doesnt get me very excited.. hehe

 

[Goders172]

not my char im afraid

 

[ViolentJ]

I'm getting old and it's practical, what more can I say The Mrs wanted a Zafira but I refuse to go down the people carrier route.

 

[Bubbles]

You can get sexy practical cars hehe but.. its all about the budget i guess

 

[ViolentJ]

It's worth just under £20k but we've got it on the mobility scheme so over 3 years which is when we choose the next car it's actually only costing us about £6k.

 

[ViolentJ]

Sorry I posted in the wrong place, thought the media section was reserved for clios, I never bother to look in it.

 

[GinandGasoline]

It's worth just under £20k but we've got it on the mobility scheme so over 3 years which is when we choose the next car it's actually only costing us about £6k.

£20k for an Astra?! £6k is probably what it'll be worth in 3 years time too!

 

[Reyes]

f**king gorgeous!!! I want one!!






...nice practical car there, doesnt make me tingle though

 

[DrR]

Have to agree with the 20k thing? WTF?

 

[ViolentJ]

Yep just double checked - £19,075 without any extra options.

 

[Beef-Mc]

It's certainly a practical car for an older gentleman lol.

 

[ViolentJ]

Indeed it is, I had 15 breeze blocks and a load of chip board in the back the day after collecting it lol

 

[stewart]

It looks v v high!

 

[ViolentJ]

The road sloped quite steeply, I nearly fell out when I opened the door lol So that exaggerates the ride height in the picture.

 

[stewart]

ok, thought it didn't look right

 

[nth]

deffo grown ass man car...
respect will be given lol

 

[ViolentJ]

It's a very nice car to drive and use, I can't fault it at all. I've grown out of driving for thrills and would rather just have a comfortable ride in a practical, safe and reliable car. Personally I think it looks quite smart as well.

 

[Fletcher]

I'm getting old and it's practical, what more can I say The Mrs wanted a Zafira but I refuse to go down the people carrier route.

VXR Zafira thats what i'd have gone for.

 

[AlexS]

Nice car.

 

[DazG]

It's a very nice car to drive and use, I can't fault it at all. I've grown out of driving for thrills and would rather just have a comfortable ride in a practical, safe and reliable car. Personally I think it looks quite smart as well.

Fair play to you for being sensible :approve:

 

[Ian_182]

Did you get this free on motability or did you put down a deposit

 

[ViolentJ]

We had to give £399 up front and then the weekly mobility benefit my Mrs would normally get goes to the mobility scheme.

 

[Ian_182]

Not too bad then.My son gets the full scheme too.He's got a renault grand scenic tdi but we had to put 750 up front

 

[ViolentJ]

From what I could see the ones with nothing to pay up front were all tiny cars. I guess that's ok if you've got no kids at home and no need to get half of B&Q in the boot every weekend. If anything that's the only fault with the scheme, there isn't as much choice as I thought there would be. We're very happy with our choice though.

 

[Christopher]

£20k?!

At least the scheme covers the running costs i guess

 

[Ian_182]

From what I could see the ones with nothing to pay up front were all tiny cars. I guess that's ok if you've got no kids at home and no need to get half of B&Q in the boot every weekend. If anything that's the only fault with the scheme, there isn't as much choice as I thought there would be. We're very happy with our choice though.

You can have almost any car,its just that the deposits go up

I looked at mercs and volvo's but the deposit was a couple of grand

 

[ViolentJ]

The list we were given was far from any car, perhaps things have changed since you went through the process? We looked at Volvos as well but like you say they wanted £1000's up front.

 

[B5 BDJ]

Yep just double checked - £19,075 without any extra options.

thats a lot of dollar!

 

[MillerLight]

Will be relaxing to dive, being a auto etc.

if i had to have an estate id have astra (200 bhp 1.9ctdi of course!)

 

[Daniel]

I'm getting old and it's practical, what more can I say The Mrs wanted a Zafira but I refuse to go down the people carrier route.

VXR Zafira thats what i'd have gone for.

Of course you would.

If I hadn't bought my Audi, I'd have gone for a Lambo. But hey ho.

 

[Darren S]

I'm getting old and it's practical, what more can I say The Mrs wanted a Zafira but I refuse to go down the people carrier route.

I'd be happy with a Zaffy VXR though.

D.

 

[Timmay]

^ 0-60 in 7.1 iirc

 

[kyle_sxi]

nice car my mate andrew pawley had the 1.9cdti estate recaro tremlines, 330mm alcon brakes, vxr front bumper vxr back bumper, black pro race 1.2s and 220bhp and 350 ft lbs of tourqe so it went like s**t off a stick lol