Are these cars suitable as first cars?

From everything related to VAG and Automatic, I generally advise; the Golf V does not look so bad on the photo and seems to be worth the price, but it remains a not so tingling abdominal feeling ——-> VW is simply not a manufacturer of good automatic transmission. The 17-year-old polo with 161,000 kilometers is also far too expensive, the Audi A3 has the controversial TFSI engine.

The Opel Astra-H itself works well, but unfortunately has only the Easytronic on board – an automated manual transmission that is complicated to use, switches sluggishly and whose functioning in everyday life is completely unsatisfactory. Although Opel’s Easytronic is not necessarily known as vulnerable, it is a completely unsatisfactory concept that I know well and also experienced in other Opels (Meriva, Astra, Vectra-C). You have to be extremely careful, especially starting is rarely possible. It usually goes through the car, which is absolutely normal – it is annoying and feels like a defect, but unfortunately is a typical Easytronic story. The Easytronic is also often jogging when driving, especially when changing gears. Kaputt is there nix, but it is a problem of this gear that is very often groomed among Opel drivers. Ultimately, Easytronic is a typical representative of automated manual transmission and compared to other units is not even the worst concept, although unsatisfactory. Only for information ——> even for the designated automatic and comfort professional Mercedes-Benz has never really convinced their own development called Sequentronic (CLK, old E-Class W211 from 2002) and shows similar comfort problems during driving as Easytronic. Opel was very proud of this development —–> eventhe mirror reported in 2000Maybe you’re interested.

The best is the summa sumarum of the Opel Corsa, which also has the sturdy full automatic machine on board. A friend of mine bought this model at the end of 2010 and is still very satisfied with it. The machine should come from the Japanese company Aisin, with which Opel has often worked together under GM-eagides.