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- GTP_Leonidae_MFT
Mmmmm.. Nope, still seriously uncool.
GTP Cool Wall: Vauxhall Astra Coupe 888
- Thread starter TheBook
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- 9,589
- GTP_DelphicR
- Esoterik1
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- evored
This car would like a word with you all:Beat me to it.
The big "V" on the front says it all...
- 9,589
- GTP_DelphicR
- Esoterik1
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- GTBR_Joker
Cool, i like this Astra generation
- 2,590
- GTP_SohnVonStig
Seriously uncool. FWD plus rear wing of that size? Besides that, as others have said, it's an Astra.
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- 9,810
- Canton, MI
- RJs_RX-7
Actually makes more sense than you'd expect...
Ever driven a FWD car in anger at high speed? Yeah I thought not.
- 10,620
- gtp_jimprower
Doesn't mean it doesn't look daft...and that wing isn't even trimmed for much downforce. it's trimmed flat.
- 6,584
- Kent, UK
- GTP_Jondot
I thought the normal generation of this Astra was the dullest car ever. But this looks cool and it's a limited edition model made by the Vauxhall BTCC team of the time. It packs some punch. I voted cool.
Edit:
It looks much better from the back.
Just FYI, that's not the spoiler that the 888 comes with (as far as I can work out). Here's the press photo:
Looks just a little bit silly.
Incidentally, here's what happens when said spoilers end up sold on ebay.
(That photo's hotlinked from Bebo, just to give a hint as to the calibre of that car's owner...)
- 10,620
- gtp_jimprower
That's STILL a flat-trimmed rear wing. I can't see it producing much downforce at all. Thus, STILL FACTORY RICE.
- 6,584
- Kent, UK
- GTP_Jondot
Course it is. In fact I'd say it looks even less like it's been designed to do anything than the one in the other picture. At least that one appeared to fit the car properly...
- 9,295
- Duisburg
Well, it's a Vauxhall...
Either way, I actually do like the look of that generation of Astras to a certain degree... If it is an Opel, that is
The Astra G OPC was kinda cool looking:
However... It's still front wheel driven and, in my opinion, a wannabe 3-Series Compact. With front wheel drive.
Meh.
Either way, I actually do like the look of that generation of Astras to a certain degree... If it is an Opel, that is
The Astra G OPC was kinda cool looking:
However... It's still front wheel driven and, in my opinion, a wannabe 3-Series Compact. With front wheel drive.
Meh.
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- gtp_jimprower
are you seriously that thick? DTM? This thing isn't even close!
- 5,196
- Kuala Lumpur
- CHVRCHES_GTP
Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about the race car!
This:
It just came across my mind for some reason...
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- GTP_SohnVonStig
Yeah I have, the front end gets real floaty. I've actually dragged fwd cars. But I recant my large spoiler statement if jondot is right about the spoiler. The one he has pictured looks small.....kinda silly...
Owell, my tc has it's functionless spoiler on the back soooo I can't really judge
Still seriously uncool though....
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- gtp_jimprower
Well, the TC's "spoiler" Is relatively unobtrusive and only serves to add an accent to the styling of the coupe. This is made to look serious, yet isn't.
- 17,307
- United Kingdom
All this critiscm of the Astra yet the Honda Integra made it to 'cool' on the wall.. I'm hard-pushed to see the difference.
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- GTP_TheCracker
The Integra (Type R) is hailed as one of, if not the, best front wheel drive cars ever. The Astra 888 isn't. And it's an Astra with a stupid wing.
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- GTP_GTPrologue5
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^ Or the Civic. Maybe with the Type R models from the EK and EP generations. The SiR-II from the EG? Maybe. Still, Civic and Integra, probably the 2 best FWD cars.
And then we have a silly Vauxhall with a stupid bodykit, non-functional spoiler, and tries to be tough with a 4-banger and a turbo.
And then we have a silly Vauxhall with a stupid bodykit, non-functional spoiler, and tries to be tough with a 4-banger and a turbo.
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- GTP_SohnVonStig
Very true, I wouldn't have bought my tc without it, just ruins the look.
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- United Kingdom
Hmm, remember, this is not the 'good car wall', it's the cool wall... Integra has stupid wing, it's also quite ugly, and I REALLY fail to see how an Astra is uncool, but a Civic/Integra would be cool, no matter how many letters and numbers you put after it...
.. both to me have a similar appeal, I can easily imagine them on one or two wheels having clipped the apex curbing at turn 1 of Knockhill, revving the jubblies off the engine, with the back wheels simply keeping its ass-end off the ground. I don't much like either, and I'd never buy one.. but they have a certain character.
As far as the whole ASTRA thing goes...
I did just under 5000 miles in two weeks in an Astra hire car (newer than the 888 generation), pretty much against the clock, in all types of conditions, on all types of road, hauling supplies and shelter to cover the two weeks.. got the back-end out a few times and even got clear air under all four wheels once or twice, it never missed a beat or p***** me off even when we lost or hung over (50% of the time). I have a respect for them that I don't have for many other cars, and a fondness that is only built from completing epic road trip in one, I even have a 1:43 scale model of an Astra hatchback alongside my relatively expensive collection of 1:18 BMW racecars! If Chavtastic Fords and rainbow powered hair-dresser Fiats can get to the cool end of the wall, I don't get why a BTCC inspired Astra can't?
