 
I'm Mike Hanley with cars.com and I'm
here with the 2008 Saturn Astra
the Astor comes from GM's Opel division
in Europe and it's available here
in both two-door and four-door hatchback
farms the Astor bring Saturn
a lot of style and utility but also has
a share
up quirky features the two-door Astro
like this model here strikes a much
more sporty look you've been a sport or
sibling was discovered in a separate
video
by my colleague Joe weisenthal are you
can see here at has a lower growth than
the four-door model
and also has these really sleek tapered
side windows the downside to this small
greenhouse on the side
and the back is every visibility isn't
that great in this car
overall it's a very sleek look that
gives the Volvo c30 another intriguingly
design hatchback a run for its money
where the ester can't match the c30 is
under the hood is powered by a much less
powerful
138 horsepower force on their that
compares to the c30 is
227 horsepower turbocharged
five-cylinder
yester can have a manual or automatic
transmission
and it gets better gas mileage than the
c30 its 2432
with the manual or 2430 with the
automatic
the looks more from the outside the
Astor actually has a decent size cargo
area
measures 12 cubic feet if you want
expand that you can even for the back
seats down for more room as well
it's also not that hard to get a decent
sized bag in the cargo space
as mentioned the back seat can be folded
down if you have more stuff you wanna
carry
its but and when folded down the
back reso the rear seats are nearly flat
but is looking fine till
so it's not quite a flat cargo floor the
front sport seats in the Astor are
pretty firm
and they can be finished optionally and
leather as well as a steering wheel like
this model here
because the firmness of the seats along
with very firm spore suspension this
model has you might want to take a
longer test drive
in this car if you look at the see how
agreeable might be
for daily drives many thats by ending
control layout
is completely different than any other
car GM sells in the US
it has a different center console out
with the different radio design
and there's buttons like the ones on the
steering wheel that have
pretty cryptic icons that don't really
give you much
clue as to what it does it the process
the Astor brings a lot of style to the
small hatchback market
and with the two doors starting price
about nineteen thousand dollars
it undercuts premium had fax like the
c30
candid Volkswagen GTI by significant
margins
now you don't get that Turbo Power those
models have and the Astros cabin has a
higher learning curve
but overall the saturns a pretty good
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