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When I was looking for a car a few years ago, I noticed the Saturns. GM took Opels with good fuel economy, brought them to the US, slammed bigger engines in them, and made fuel economy suck.
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Those Saturn Astra/Opels were built in Belgium. The 1.8 was one of engine options offered to Europeans :
Opel Astra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Engine(s) 1.4L Family 0 I4
1.6L Family I I4
1.8L Family I I4
2.0L Turbo Family II I4
2.2L Family II I4 (Australia)
1.3L CDTi Diesel I4
1.7L CDTi Diesel I4
1.9L CDTi Diesel I4
2.0L Flexpower I4 (Brazil)
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But I agree that we didn't get the 1.4 gasser or 1.3 CDTi that we would have wanted.
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