2006 Opel Astra Reviews, Pricing & Specs

I owned a Coupe-Cabriolet Astra (Twintop) from 2006 to 2009. I fell in love with the styling at the first sight. I would park the car, pull up a chair, sit and smoke a cigarette for hours, watching and admiring it. And I still find myself looking at it's photos from time to time. All the world seems to think like myself because whenever I rode it, people were literally falling inside, drooling over the looks and making oblivious comments. The second I retracted the roof, all hell broke loose! It was impossible not to get embarrassed because of the attention I got. Rear seats were cramped, but who cares anyway. Also the trunk was actually quite large for a cabriolet but I managed to fill it with my sound system and made it practically unusable. So I had a storage problem. But the biggest frustration was it's performance. You get a decent 105hp engine and put it on a 1600kg car and what do you get? Bloody tears. But it had a lot of potential because after you've sped up to 4th gear and beaten the gravity, the car accelerated effortlessly to factory limited 200km/h. I've seen a lot lighter cars that can't do this. Albeit, after chip tuning the engine I was able to get 170nm of torque and it changed the car's performance drastically. It was a lot faster and responsive but still not like my focus.Oct 05, 2009