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aarrggh - car has just died - but got a new one! :-)
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The first ones in the UK (Nexia = Astra, Espero = Cavalier) were.
Indeed. And they are compatible with a awful lot of parts from the Vauxhall range, including the performance parts. One of the funniest things I've seen is the Vaxuhall 2 litre engine stuffed into a Daewoo Nexia along with a lot of parts (light clusters, badges and the like) from a Mk2 Astra. The owner was still paying super cheap insurance and from a distance it looked like a Mk2 Astra, only on an L reg, and it didn't rust so much
He got pulled over a lot though, probably for having an L reg on a Mk2 Astra0 -
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I am pleased with my buy so far! It is pretty much spotless inside and out, drives nicely and everything works!!
Considering my last car had damage on literally every panel, and had been used and abused by me for a decade, this feels like luxury!
You could eat your dinner off the engine it is so clean! I know a lot of people knock korean cars, but if you look past the branding and look at value for money and reliability they are decent enough cars IMHO.
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foreign_correspondent wrote: »I am pleased with my buy so far! It is pretty much spotless inside and out, drives nicely and everything works!!
Looks very nice, I have never seen a saloon model of that car before, they have always been hatchbacks.0 -
thankyou - yeah, they are mostly hatchbacks - although my brother tells me you see the saloon all the time in egypt - they are what all the egyptian taxi drivers use!! lol0
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foreign_correspondent wrote: »You could eat your dinner off the engine it is so clean! I know a lot of people knock korean cars, but if you look past the branding and look at value for money and reliability they are decent enough cars IMHO.
The really early Korean cars to come over were pretty terrible, but the modern ones are decent enough and reliable.
Given that people still take the mick out of Skodas, I wouldn't expect the stigma to go away any time soon (and Daewoo rebranding themselves as Chevvy was pretty laughable), but that's good because it means the Koreans have to keep the prices down and provide long warranties in order to keep people buying them.0 -
Well done, £800 for a 30K miles car, you cannot go wrong with that really. Had a Mk2 Astra 1.3 which wasn't exciting to drive, but it never went wrong and was cheap to run. Technology from the day it was still possible to fix cars without needing a computer to help.0
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