Patrick
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Registered: 25th Apr 02
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Have seen a star silver Astra GSi Turbo come up for sale, has half leather, 18,000 miles and is on a 52 plate. Which would you prefer personally this, or my Astra Coupé Turbo. Europa blue, full cream leather interior, 19,000 miles?
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Nismo
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GSI
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Marc
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Astra GSi
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Patrick
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Registered: 25th Apr 02
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The Gsi is up for £12,795 and I'd probably get about £10,500 for my coupe. Am thinking about it but I'd really miss my cream leather and the overall shape of the coupe. But I do really love those Gsi's. 
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Don't choose a car based on what colour seats it has and don't change a car for one of the same age with the same miles 
[Edited on 20-02-2004 by Ian]
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Marc
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Leather isnt sporty in my opinion, more luxury. Cloth buckets feel more sporty to me.
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Patrick
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Don't choose a car based on what colour seats it has and don't change a car for one of the same age with the same miles
[Edited on 20-02-2004 by Ian]
Mines x-reg this is 52-reg.
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Ian S
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Registered: 31st Jul 00
Location: merseyside Builds: Nova & Drives Astra Gsi Turbo
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wait for an arden blue gsi to come up, much better
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Patrick
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Registered: 25th Apr 02
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Silver is my fave colour on the Astra Gsi. All of them seem to be arden blue.
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Ojc
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Yes, but silver is much easier to clean.
I would prefer an Astra GSi over a Coupe Turbo anyday.
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Hogge TD
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Location: Edinburgh | 02 Corsa SXi DTi | 04 Astra GSi Turbo
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Marc
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vibrio
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can you swap your mods over?
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Jambo
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Coupe is way nicer ifu ask me, and leather is tops!
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RichR
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the fast car guys turned up to do stubbsys shoot in the gsi turbo today - and tis very very nice in a darkmetallic sky blue colour; even had blue seatbelts seemed vvery quick too
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RichR
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RichR
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also check out corsasri16v astra - his has a 1/2 leather 1/2 blue alcantara trim as standard - think its the bertone special edition ??? if that sounds righht to ne1, pics in his garage
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Half blue alcantra is SE trim on Coupes. See my garage also although no interior pics.
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mav
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I think the gsi is lush.
prefer it to the coupe...........
just my opinion though.......
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Patrick
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Registered: 25th Apr 02
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I've made my mind up. I'm gonna stick with the coupé.
Had a blat last night with a standard Gsi Turbo, the bloke had a smile on his face like, I'm lighter than you watch this. Green lights, bye bye. I admit most of it is due to driver skill. These Astra Turbos are a bastard to get off the line but I did this well, his tyres were screeching and I left him at quite a pace. Furthur down the road he came up a couple of inches from my bumper so I dropped to 2nd to see what my extra 30 or so bhp could do and I was suprised to see my car pulling away at quite a pace, the look on his face at the next lights was a true kodak moment. He turned left with his head down.
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Robbo
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Much prefer a Coupe, looks a LOT nicer IMO
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Patrick
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I do like the Gsi but for all the hassle of changing it's not going to be worth it. Plus I like my car even more after eating up the car I was thinking of getting.
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M2RTY
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coupe any day of the week
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MatG
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let me get this right, you are keeping the coupe because you beat the Gsi? Yet you have got mods I take it because of the 30BHP differance??? Not exactly a fair comparisson is it? Also he may have had the TC off so had more wheel spin.....it could be he is a crap driver??
The coupe is the same engine with the same bhp as a hatch gsi...nothing in it at all....some would argue that the coupe handles better, yet it has the same chasis. The gsi however is better equipped than a coupe.
It comes down to one thing do you prefer the look of the coupe or the Gsi...nothing else and especially not some shit "race" when you "blew away" another astra driver.
Any mods you have dione to a coupe can be done to the hatch.
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Patrick
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My point on the 'race' was that you would expect the Gsi to beat a coupé, due to it looking more sporty and being lighter. The driver of the Gsi definately thought it would win. I liked the fact that I was the underdog and won.
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