Vauxhall Astra Estate
New from £26,935 / £345 p/m
Is the Vauxhall Astra Estate a good car?
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"Vauxhall’s enduringly popular Astra has been freshened up with a subtle but worthwhile set of updates for the entire family. That includes both the regular Hatch version and this handsome Sports Tourer, which offers traditional estate car practicality with a good spread of drivetrain choice. Also, to our eyes it looks a bit nicer and rides more sweetly than the hatch, so it’s our preferred option in the line-up. And also available in fully electric form."
Green Rating
Vauxhall is part of the wider Stellantis group, and the Astra is built within its European manufacturing and supply chain network, which helps reduce its ‘embedded’ carbon compared with rivals built further afield. As it stands nearly 60 per cent of energy powering these European plants is from renewables, with a stated aim of getting this to 100 per cent by 2030. It also intends to halve water consumption in its plants by the same deadline, compared with 2021 levels. Fully recycled ReNewKnit upholstery helps this updated Astra’s sustainability credentials and we like Vauxhall’s commitment to consumer choice for powertrains. For this score we’re rating the petrol and hybrid Astra as distinct from the pure electric version, though.
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Running costs for a Vauxhall Astra
As with the equivalent Hatch, there are four main powertrain choices for the updated Vauxhall Astra Sports Tourer, comprising petrol, hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV) and full electric (EV). Click here for more on the different types of hybrid if you’re not already sure! While none of them re-write the rule book on running costs neither should any version of the Astra Sports Tourer break the bank to live with in normal day-to-day operation, though choosing the most cost-effective powertrain will depend on your circumstances, if you have facility to home charge an electric or PHEV and whether you’re buying privately or as a company car.
Reliability of a Vauxhall Astra
Vauxhall has made great strides in improving the reliability of its vehicles. So, the quality of the latest Astra is noticeably stronger and has been on test with owners since it arrived in 2022. However, there are still sporadic reports of electrical gremlins, so we’ll set our expectations to realistic.
Safety for a Vauxhall Astra
Earning a four-star Euro NCAP rating when it arrived in 2022, the Vauxhall Astra is not an unsafe vehicle but there are alternatives with the full five stars if that matters to you. There’s certainly plenty of standard-fit safety gear on even an entry-level model these days, with the grander specifications bundling in more advanced driver assistance systems such as the genuinely useful stuff like blind spot monitoring and rear cross-traffic alert, among more.
How comfortable is the Vauxhall Astra
Great news here, as the Sports Tourer seems to ride better than the Hatch. It’s still not perfect, mind you, as the heavier Electric variant has the propensity to occasionally thump onto bumpier road surfaces on its 18-inch alloys. This is likely the rear suspension being tuned to cope with greater loads in the wagon than it would in the regular five-door hatchback but, all-in-all, the Sports Tourer feels the more comfortable and graceful car of the two. With its ergonomic seats and sensible driving position, the Astra Sports Tourer may not be the flashiest choice but it wins on comfort and practicality.
Features of the Vauxhall Astra
With a much bigger boot and a little more headroom in the back, the Sports Tourer already has the advantage over the Astra Hatch in our eyes. Better yet is a decision by Vauxhall to offer ‘flat’ pricing across the electrified range. This means whether you want the Hatch or the Sports Tourer, and you then accompany whichever body style you’ve gone for with a hybrid, plug-in hybrid or electric drivetrain, you’ll pay exactly the same price for any combination of the above, at each of the three trim levels. And, surely, that makes the nicer-looking, more practical and smoother-riding Sports Tourer a no-brainer decision, right? Especially if you go for the estate-specific colour option of Clover Green, which in our opinion looks even nicer than the already eye-catching Electric Yellow reserved for the Hatch.
Power for a Vauxhall Astra
The Sports Tourer is no more powerful model-for-model than the Vauxhall Astra Hatch but carries a little more weight, so is slightly more leisurely in its performance. However, the way the Astra Sports Tourer goes down the road is more than adequate for most people’s real-world needs. Our preferred drivetrain is the Hybrid and its electrically-assisted 1.2-litre petrol engine, which offers a reasonable nine-second 0-62mph sprint and around 56mpg fuel economy. This proves more easily attainable in everyday usage than the more optimistic official figures of the PHEV, which are only really possible if you can plug in and run on electric power alone as much as possible.
Lease deals
These deals are based on terms of 8,000 miles, for a 36 month lease with a 6 months initial payment.
£440.52
Monthly payment
£2,643.12
Initial payment
- 5 seats
- 5 doors
- Estate
- Petrol
- Automatic
- 1.2 litres
£502.08
Monthly payment
£3,012.51
Initial payment
- 5 seats
- 5 doors
- Estate
- Petrol
- Automatic
- 1.2 litres
£493.90
Monthly payment
£2,963.42
Initial payment
- 5 seats
- 5 doors
- Estate
- Hybrid
- Automatic
- 1.2 litres
£499.50
Monthly payment
£2,997.02
Initial payment
- 5 seats
- 5 doors
- Estate
- Petrol
- Automatic
- 1.2 litres
Standard equipment
Expect the following equipment on your Vauxhall Astra Estate. This may vary between trim levels.
- 17in Alloy Wheels - Kadet - Diamond Cut - Noir Onyx
- 3D Vizor - Illuminated
- Black Lower Window Mouldings
- Black Painted Door Mirrors
- Body-Colour Bumpers with Body Colour Lower Front Grille and Grained Rear Valance Panel
- Body-Colour Door Handles
- Carbon Black Roof and Rear Spoiler
- Dark Tinted Rear Windows
- Electrically Operated Front and Rear Windows with Safety Autoreverse and One-Touch Up-Down Facility
- Emergency Tyre Inflation Kit
- Locking Wheel Bolts for Alloy Wheels
- Manually Folding Door Mirrors
- Roof Rails - High Gloss Black
- Soundproofed Insulated Windscreen
- Twin Electrically Adjustable - Heated Door Mirrors
- 40-20-40 Split Folding Rear Seat Backs
- Black Facia with Modene Trim Inserts
- Black Headliner
- Digital Instrumentation
- Driver's Seat
- Easy Accessible Storage Boxes in the Boot Floor Accommodate Tyre Inflation Kit and First-Aid Kit
- Electronic Climate Control
- Flex Load Floor - 2 Storage Nets
- Frameless Anti-Dazzle Rear View Mirror - Automatic
- Front Centre Armrest with Cup Holder
- Front Passengers Seat - Four-Way Adjustable
- Heated Steering Wheel and Front Seats
- Illuminated Vanity Mirrors and Rear Reading Lights
- Instrument Panel Bar - Slow Soft
- Light Grey Modene Fabric Side Bolsters and Surrounds
- Luggage Compartment - Retractable Cover
- Malawa Grey Trim Inserts on Front Doors
- Paddle Shift
- Rain Sensitive Windscreen Wipers
- Reach and Rake Adjustable Steering Wheel
- Rear Seat Backs with Remote Easy-Fold Facility
- Side Storage with Nets
- Steering Wheel - Audio - Phone - Cruise Control
- Steering Wheel - Flat Bottom - Heated - Perforated Leather Effect Cover
- Adaptive Brake Lights
- Airbags - Front Seat Side-Impact and Full-Size Curtain Airbags
- Anti-Lock Braking System and Electronic Stability Programme - ESP
- Automatic Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection
- Deactivation Switch For Front Passengers Front and Side Impact Airbags
- Drag Torque Control
- Drivers and Front Passengers Airbags
- EBA - Emergency Brake Assist with Fading Brake Support
- EBD - Electronic Brakeforce Distribution
- Eight Airbags
- Electronic Parking Brake
- HSA - Hill Start Assist
- ISOFIX Child Seat Fixings on Outer Rear Seats Incorporating Top Tether Mounting Points
- In-Crash Braking
- Keyless Entry
- Remote Control Security Alarm System
- Rollover Mitigation
- Adaptive Cruise Control with Intelligent Speed Adaptation
- Digital Central Facia Display Shows Audio Information - Digital Clock with Automatic RDS Time Adjustment - Outside Air Temperature With Ice Warning Function
- Drive Mode Selector - Sport-Normal-Eco
- Drive Smart
- Driver Drowsiness Alert
- Driver Information Display
- Extended Traffic Sign Recognition
- Forward Collision Alert - Low Speed
- Front and Rear Parking Distance Sensors
- Infotainment Onboard
- Lane Departure Warning with Lane Keep Assist
- Multi-Function Trip Computer
- Speed Sign Recognition
- Aerial - Shark Fin
- Media Connections
- Mobile Phone Portal
- Multimedia Pure Panel Pro Navigation System
- Vauxhall Connect
- Automatic Lighting Control
- Headlights - High Beam Assist
- Intelli-LED Headlights
- LED Daytime Running Lights
- LED Tail Lights
- PAS - Power Assisted Steering
- Suspension - Front Independent Decoupled MacPherson Struts with Gas-Pressure Dampers and Coil Springs - Anti-Roll Bar
- Suspension - Rear - Compound Crank with Coil Springs and Gas-Pressure Dampers
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