2011 Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer Pricing Revealed

GM has announced Prices for the new Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer will start at £16,575 when it arrives in UK showrooms towards the end of the year.

The Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer is available on the British market with a choice between a 1.4-liter 100PS engine and a 1.7 CDTi diesel with 110PS. The equipment list of the new Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer includes air conditioning, curtain airbags, Electronic Stability Control (ESP), Electronic Parking Brake (EPB) and Active Safety Front Head Restraints.

Other trim levels include Exclusiv, SE and SRi, each come with a variety of standard and optional equipment, including FlexFold, which allows each section of the 60:40 split-fold rear seatbacks to be lowered at the press of a button housed in the walls of the cargo compartment.

Inside, the Flexfold seat system allows the rear seats to be folded in a 60:40 combination to reveal 500 litres of load space – 30 litres more than the Astra hatchback version.




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The new Astra Sports Tourer will enter the UK market later this year priced at just £16,575, over £500 less than the current entry-level Astra Estate, yet incorporating a long list of additional standard kit.

Built in Britain at Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant, the Astra Sports Tourer range starts with the 1.4 (100PS) ES model, which gains an extra 10PS of power over the equivalent 1.4 Astra Estate. It also adds: air conditioning, curtain airbags, Electronic Stability Control (ESP), Electronic Parking Brake (EPB), an aux-in socket and Active Safety Front Head Restraints, all as standard.

Better still, the Sports Tourer’s premium over the 5-door hatch model starts from just £995, for which customers benefit from a larger cargo area (500* versus 470 litres, with rear seats up), despite retaining the same wheelbase as the new hatch.

Diesel pricing is equally aggressive, with the entry-level 110PS 1.7 CDTi ES Sports Tourer costing less than the outgoing 90PS 1.3 CDTi Astra Estate Life, yet packing more power and benefiting from sub-120g/km CO2emissions.

The Sports Tourer range comprises four trim levels: ES, Exclusiv, SE and SRi, but adds a variety of standard and optional equipment, including FlexFold, which allows each section of the 60:40 split-fold rear seatbacks to be lowered at the press of a button housed in the walls of the cargo compartment.

Joining the new Astra range, which has now sold over 30,000 units in the UK since it was launched at the end of last year, the Sports Tourer is likely to account for approximately 10 per cent of all sales. Illustrating the depth of Vauxhall’s engineering and manufacturing excellence, the Sports Tourer will be assembled solely at its Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire, while its upper-body structure has been 100 per cent engineered at Vauxhall Engineering Centre in Bedfordshire.

Citroen DS3 “StreetSeekers” Online Competition

The British division of Citroen announced today it has launched a new online competition on Facebook in which it invites entrants to find four pieces of the new DS3, as well as a complete car on the Google’s Street View virtual platform. Winners can get their hands on a new DS3 White 1.6 VTi 120 hp, as well as other Xbox 360 and iPod Touch prizes.

The competition’s organizers will release each day, for five days, a cryptic clue which is meant to guide you to one of the four pieces of Citroen DS3. These parts are hidden somewhere on the virtual map of Europe. After getting all four pieces, you'll receive the clue for finding the car offers as the first prize on the new Citroen DS3 StreetSeekers competition.

There will be three rounds of the DS3 StreetSeekers competition. The first one runs from July 27 until July 31, the second runs from August 17-21 and the third round from September 7-11. The winner will be contacted within 72 hours of the DS3 being found.




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Citroën has launched ‘DS3 StreetSeekers’, an innovative on-line competition that invites entrants to search for four pieces of the new DS3 - plus a complete car - across the virtual landscape of Google’s Street View platform. The top prize is a brand new DS3 White 1.6 VTi 120hp. Xbox 360 and iPod Touch prizes are also up for grabs.

A cryptic clue will be released each day during the five-day competition period, hinting at where a piece of DS3 is hidden, somewhere across the interactive map of Europe. When participants discover all four pieces they’ll be given a clue as to the complete DS3’s location. The first to find the DS3 could win one in real life.

In true ‘hide and seek’ style, visitors to the DS3 StreetSeekers microsite can ‘walk’ around the application’s virtual streets until they uncover a piece of DS3. Helping users to locate the pieces, a graphic will hint whether they are getting ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ as they move about. When they walk over the secret coordinates, the pieces spring into view. DS3 StreetSeekers also uses Facebook Connect to allow an entrant to notify all of their friends when they discover a DS3 part, inviting them to get involved and also giving them a chance of winning.

If users don’t find all the hidden pieces and the car the first time round, there will be two more opportunities to take part and to win a DS3 in the StreetSeekers competition, with new hidden locations and prizes.

The first round of the DS3 StreetSeekers competition runs from 27th July, with the clue to the location of the car itself being released on Saturday 31st July. The winner will be contacted within 72 hours of the DS3 being found. The second round of the competition runs from 17th - 21st August and the third round from 7th - 11th September.

For full details, terms and conditions and to enter the competition, head to: www.facebook.com/CitroenUK