Nice wagon, it could be interesting to bring it in North America

 

I hope that Buick gets the entire range of Astras. I love the Astra that I have and would love a Buick Wagon Version of the new Astra, even give it a turbo diesel.

 

I taught of the same thing, the only and main cloud ahead will be who'll be the next main shareholder of Opel. If it's Fiat, chances we might see it as a Chrysler/Dodge model as well. However if it's Magna/GAZ, it might still be possible to get a Buick version.

 

It Rocks!

It's what the old Mazda3 was and the new Mazda3 lost....

Too bad Opel will not likely be part of GM going forward.

 

It looks really good, they shoul dbring it here.

 

Ming, your car has arrived...

 

Great, except the side repeater. Put them in the freaking side mirror housings GM.

It breaks up the sheetmetal and I would imagine would have a slight negative effect on the CD of the car.

 

Not as good as the hatch, but still pretty good.

 

More damned advertising than anything else.............
Saturn was not sucessful in selling these Opels, why should Buick be.. ??
They may look good, but are they truly good ??...after the new wears off...

 

Saturn was not sucessful in selling these Opels, why should Buick be.. ??.

Because the Astra is too expensive to be a Saturn. I'm fairly confident that a loaded $24,000-26,000 Astra can do better as a Buick than a decontented $19,000 version did as a Saturn.

They may look good, but are they truly good ??...after the new wears off...

Yes, they are truly good. The Astra is one of the best-selling cars of all-time worldwide.

 

Looks good.....ALMOST has enough of a sweep spear to look "Buicky".

 

Hopefully this will lead to a Cruze wagon as well.

 

Dont hold your breath.

 

I hope that we begin to see more station wagons being sold in North America. I would love to have a dozen or so mid-sized wagons to pick from for my next vehicle. I would love it even more if they came with turbo diesel engine options.

 

Seems as if GM is sold on both badge engineering and bankruptcy.
Buicks are or were American and should be designed here in America..

 

man i hope Magna gets opel and somepart of saturn.

 

Buick Invicta Estate, perhaps?

 

The Astra is a good $2-3K dearer than a Cobalt, with an absolutely lacklustre engine/transmission combo. That said, the scantily marketed model distributed by a handful (by old GM standard) dealers has consistently outsold the Pontiac G5, even being an ostensibly discontinued model.

I don't think the hatch is a problem. Price, marketing and content are. With the right price and content levels, this could have been the vehicle the warmed Americans up to hatches. The original Focus, if memory serves me well, sold surprisingly good as hatchback.

 

The G5 was an afterthought and only sold a coupe in the U.S. Also on the issue of hatches, don't assume that everyone has the same preferences as Europeans and will eventually come to the same conclusion. I've shown many people the cars that you think would usher in the golden age of the North American hatch and the response was almost exclusively something along the line "why would anybody buy that ugly little thing?". Like Euro football (soccer) or F1, they're jsut not our thing.