Vauxhall Astra SRi 2.2i 16v 3-door Hatchback

As a owner of an Astra 2.2 Sri for 4 years now all i would say is don't buy one. All I have had is problems with my car. I owned a Peugeot 206 GTi before this and wanted something the same performance but slightly bigger and cheaper insurance. When i forst bought the Astra I loved it had the perfomance and the styling I wanted. I bought the car in Feb 04 the car was 8 month old and had only been used by the Vauxhall dealer i bought it from. i had a noise in the September of 04 which i was told was something to do with oil hydrualics or something which was fixed. By July 2005 the car developed a knocking noise which when i took it to ...  Read the complete review

Pre-ramble Please humour me as what I am going to do here is actually a review of the Astra 2.0 SRi 16v, but hopefully you will still find it useful!! Anyway it is basically the same car as the 2.2, just with an ever so slightly smaller engine. I have owned this car for about two and a half years ago. This was from a Vauxhall dealer I found in Slough after doing a used car search on Vauxhall’s very helpful website. I had decided on the Astra as both the Golf GTi and Peugeot 206 GTi had very similar performance as the Astra but much higher insurance groups. (The Astra 2.0 SRi is Group 11). I originally paid £11,000 for the car. I thought ...  Read the complete review