While the 2016 Opel Astra K continues to clean up with awards in a variety of categories, not to mention its win of the European and UK car of the year award, its slightly longer sibling is seeing similar success.
Opel stated the 2016 Opel Astra Sports Tourer has tallied up more than 130,000 orders from customers eagerly awaiting the refinement and innovation brought in by the Astra K, with a little bit more space.
“Our new Astra Sports Tourer and our new Astra hatchback – they are two sides of the same coin. Both represent a quantum leap for Opel and for the compact class. Apart from offering ultramodern connectivity and evolutionary design, the station wagon version focuses even more on efficiency,” said Opel Group CEO Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann. “Our Sports Tourer is the perfect combination of practicality and dynamism: more space, less weight and in addition clever, trendsetting equipment details and features such as the power tailgate that opens and closes automatically with a little kick of the foot. This is how compact class station wagons should be nowadays.”
Since the introduction of the Opel Kadett A CarAvan in 1963, more 5.4 million units of Kadett and Astra have been sold as wagons. And that isn’t stopping here.
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Bring it here already!
Should be in North America as well. The hatches are losing practicality because of dropped rear rooflines in the name of ‘great styling’….
Slap a Buick grill on it and ship it over here . A tall multi-purpose vehicle would sell for those that might be getting tired of most all SUV’s starting to look alike . Volvo’s XC90 is a good example .
Put a Buick grill on the front of it, an we’ll take TWO ! This is what we need … not another SUV. Both men an women who are against the humble station wagon need to get over themselves. Why? Because a SUV is just a … slightly jacked up in the air (on crossovers), slightly longer, slightly wider, all wheel drive / four wheel drive … Station Wagon. Always has, always will be … an cheap gas won’t last much longer. You can bet that in some smoke filled back room in Washington DC that a gas tax to pay for their crazy spending decisions will come about. ALL the car manufacturers operating in the US need to put more attention into getting us some $15K vehicles in both the car an small truck segment. In the early 1980’s Chrysler brought out the Plymouth Reliant & Dodge Aries K-Kars and were successful, they sold for around $9K to $12K with top of the line models selling form around $14K. Yes, they’d be considered spartan by today’s standards … but I put over 300,000 miles on a 1981 Reliant K station wagon, sold it to a painter who put close to another 100,000 miles on it. It can be done, bringing out a $15K car/wagon/pickup … limit engines, colours, options … Lee Iacocca an Chrysler did this in the early 1980’s, there is no reason with the great people running GM it can’t be done today.
if only Americans could lose their sedan and SUV obsessions we might actually get some great cars to choose from over here. Hatchbacks, wagons and tourers offer style and utility that we are woefully short of. I would love to see this car as a Buick.