Comments on: Holden Astra is officially finished

By: Dr edelstien

Dr edelstien — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:21:44 +0000

Tanya go get a diesel i30 cw Hyundai wagon Holden are heading down the Korean made vehicles purely on the profit margin path.
Shame……

By: Lazybones

Lazybones — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:47:15 +0000

Very true Astra Boy, i’ve had 3 Astra’s dating from ’97 to 2005 and never had a problem. But the devil is in the detail. CJ works in spare parts. He’s only going to see problems no-one is going to contact him and say “my Astra is doing great, sorry i don’t need anything”.

It won’t be long before the parts for the Cruze start rolling in, You can’t take the cheap and cheerful line and believe the car won’t have problems as the years roll on. Especially with GM DAT.

By: Astra Boy

Astra Boy — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:22:45 +0000

“All you ‘Astra Lovers’ have obviously never owned one”!? I’ve had mine since new with delivery in Feb 1999. Haven’t replaced a single item you mentioned apart from the timing belt as part of log book servicing. Compare that to any car on the market and the running costs are very low. My wife’s Mazda6 is half the age and had 10 times the problems!!

I’ll be sticking with the ‘H’ brand now that the Koreans are here…Honda!

By: billy

billy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:28:59 +0000

Cheers to all you Astra fans!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: billy

billy — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:27:22 +0000

I’m a current owner of a AH Astra which is a fantastic vehicle. The build quality is very good. I was quite dissappoint to hear that Holden were no longer going to import the next generation Astra and instead opt to import a cheap vehicle blaming curreny issues. Apart from the Global financial crisis in 2008 the euro currency to AUD in around .60 – .65 on average and has been so for some years.

They also stated that importing the Astra would not be viably in these tough economic conditions and the astra would be too expensive for australians to purchase. Don’t Australia dodge the recession bullet? The folks over in Europe & UK have felt the real force of the economic downturn but yet the new Astra volume will go to that market.

C’mon Holden the people of Australia are not poor and if the flood of other european producers can continue to send vehicles to our shores then I can see much potential for the new Astra. Starting prices in europe are arounf 15,000 euro?

Some people may want to pay a cheap vehicle but some people also look for quality.

I can’t see what the problem asking 30-35K for a high quality hatchback. VW, BMW, Alfa have similiar cars starting from this price range and even higher.

Is it more risky to import the new astra or to set up a manufacturing facility locally to produce vehicles (hatchback). To keeps costs down in manufacturing you need to produce volume or cut spending i.e labour costs. Is Holden going to keep the RRP for the local cruze consistant with the imported cruze and if so how????

This will be the last Holden I will be purchasing. Holden is known only for commodore. It is holdens top product and they would not survive without it.

They have now moved from a quality car producer and a somewhat low cost producer i.e cruze, epica, barina.

I will be visting the nearest VW dealer.

By: KD

KD — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:27:32 +0000

Interesting decision, given that earlier this year and late last we were seeing reports about Astra being the best selling import in Holden’s history, and the highest selling imported vehicle of any class. Seems they were selling so well…I wonder what the real reason is?

By: Janjuc

Janjuc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:54:28 +0000

A great little car is the Astra Hatch, have had one for ~ 5 years, the last of the European models. It is solidly built and with the 2.2L engine I have averaged ~ 7L/100klm, in all types of driving.
Farewell ….

By: ABMPSV

ABMPSV — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:28:43 +0000

The only Holden car I liked.

By: timmy

timmy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:25:48 +0000

I have a Astra h 2 door and a Astra G hatch CDX. I cannot beleive what Im’ hearing hear. Astra was the only car theat was imported from Euroupe and before japanese car lovers spear me with “euroupean does not mean quality” I say this. euroupean styling will crap all over any asian built car. I am a huge fan of the Astra and all began with its looks, one positive out of this is the Astra is gonna become a classic.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:07:39 +0000

This will be the downfall of Holden’s small car creditability which has already suffered, with the introduction of a little “woo”, namely the Kalos based Barina, Lacetti based Viva, Tosca based Epica and Captiva based Winstorm. The only thing Opel based is the Combo, hardly the flagship. $10 bets you that will go within the next 6 months.