Five-door hatch due in 2004 is first of Astra derivatives.(News)(Opel AG)(Brief Article)

Automotive News Europe,  July, 2003  by Hamprecht, Harald

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Byline: Harald Hamprecht

An all-new Opel Astra will be in dealerships in Germany by March 2004, Opel Chairman Carl-Peter Forster told German sister publication Automobilwoche.

The five-door hatchback will be the first of many versions of the Astra.

A new Caravan station wagon version is scheduled to follow in October 2004. A three-door coupe-like derivative will be on sale at the end of 2004 at the earliest.

The new Astra will come with electronically controlled damping - a novelty for this class of lower-medium car. Engine and chassis management

will be controlled ...

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