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Opel Astra Sport Tourer

The station wagon is very popular in Europe, so many compact and medium-sized models have it on offer, including the Škoda Fabia Combi in the B segment. The Opel Astra has been available as a station wagon since 1992, and now comes the L generation, the Astra Sport Tourer.

The Astra was introduced in the form of a compact hatchback this summer, and a new render published in Kolesa magazine hints at the look of the caravan. The Astra also looks elegant in the station wagon version, and the design is a bit “cleaner” than the mechanically related Peugeot 308 SW.

Sales of the Astra hatchback in Europe begin in October. It will be produced in Germany, and we probably won’t have to wait long for a caravan. Since there will be no more powerful versions of the Peugeot 308, it is likely that we will not see either the Astra GSi or the OPC model.

When it comes to caravans, luggage space is very important. The Peugeot 308 hatchback has a trunk volume of 412 liters, and the station wagon 608 liters. The Astra hatchback is slightly more generous with 422 liters of luggage space, so the Sport Tourer is expected to offer more than 308 SW. Still, the segment leader is the Dacia Jogger with a boot volume of 708 liters without folding down the rear seats.

Source: Kolesa

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Car owner parking problems

Car owners in urban areas are struggling with a lack of parking spaces, but those in the suburbs have the same problems.

Since households have two or more cars on average, there is a lack of space, even for people living in a house with a yard and garage. Car collectors have a special problem, how to store all the cars in the lack of space.

One example of resourcefulness comes from Texas. Since Chris Hullinger has a garage for three cars and owns seven, the parking problem has become a headache.

He installed an elevator in the garage, all in order to accommodate additional cars upstairs. Namely, he owns as many as five Dodge Vipers, but also a Tesla Model X and a new Toyota RAV4. The two Vipers are upstairs, and below them are Tesla and Toyota. He used the remaining space in the middle for three more Vipers mounted on vehicle dollies. Best of all, it has enough space to fully lift all the doors.

Chris also has a Chevrolet Bolt that he uses every day and parks it outside the garage.

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The future look of the Yugo

Macedonian designer Dejan Hristov, on his Behance profile, publishes his predictions of what some cars might look like nowadays. One of the predictions relates to the future look of one of the popular cars in the former Yugoslavia, the Yugo.

Many will say the Yugo is the worst car ever. They may be right, but this car isn’t made for front pages. The Yugo is a working class car, and as such it had one task, to transport you from one place to another.

It all started in 1980 when the first copy of this car, the Yugo 45, came off the factory lines. Although below average quality and without additional equipment, the Yugo was sold in 800,000 copies. During its 28 years of existence, it was also sold on the North American market from 1985 to 1991. The price was less than $ 4,000, making it the cheapest car in America.

Dejan Hristov’s vision is an electric Yugo and he wants to turn his idea into reality. In one of his statements, Dejan Hristov said:

“Considering that the components for the first Yugo were produced throughout the former Yugoslavia, it is possible that Rimac Automobili from Croatia will take part in the project.”

Whether his vision will become a reality remains to be seen.

Source: Dejan Hristov via Behance

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