RE: Vauxhall Corsa GSi: Driven

[unsprung]

Stu08 said:

I reckon you could have more fun down twisty roads in this than some of the 300 BHP + hatches as you can use the power more.

as I saw the words "300 BHP + hatches" a slight smile came across my face

the world today is a massive leap beyond the recent past, let alone the era when one's dad or uncle might have had a funny hair cut

the engineering, the materials, the greater outputs with lower emissions... the reliability!

[Mercury00]

The new Peugeot-based Corsa is said to be coming next year, so I think this is just meant to temporarily fill a gap in their spec range.

[nunpuncher]

Haltamer said:

Edit: I've just checked, and they have in the Adam S. Still 18K Though :

I'm sure there was a review of that on here a while back. The conclusion was that it was crap.

[Robmarriott]

What’s the colour called? Looks very similar to Mustard yellow from the Nova SR

[treeroy]

Robmarriott said:

What’s the colour called? Looks very similar to Mustard yellow from the Nova SR

Its called Mandarina.

[treeroy]

Some of the options are strange. £175 to have folding rear seats. £75 to have height adjustable seats.
Just specced it up with options that most of these will probably be sold with (GSI+ pack, the ones mentioned above) and its 22k, add satnav and you're looking at 23k... for a 1.4 Corsa..

[ghost83]

Too expensive prefer the previous corsa d vxr! Would have thought they would be putting a 1.8t or 2.0t in it by now with a hybrid system! That’s what vxl needs to be doing

[Silverbullet767]

Hideous, slow, expensive. Why anyone would buy that I have no idea.

This sums it up well enough though.

[GTEYE]

Bearing in mind you can buy a 2018 1.4 SRi Corsa from a main dealer for just over £8k.....you'd have to think the depreciation on these is going to be absolutely catastrophic.

Trade price on day 1 after leaving the showroom surely can't be much over £10k.......

[Rawwr]

CrippsCorner said:

David87 said:

You'd have to be insane to buy this over a Fiesta ST. What were Vauxhall thinking?

Crazy lease pricing for the young guns. No one's going to 'buy' one of these!

But the ST will be even cheaper to lease because of stronger residuals.

[treeroy]

CrippsCorner said:

Crazy lease pricing for the young guns. No one's going to 'buy' one of these!

Have you seen the depreciation of Corsa's? The lease prices / PCP prices will be insanely high.

Brief look at a couple of leasing websites... £320+ for 1.4 SRi 100hp for 3 year lease...

[kieranblenk]

I hired a 1.4 non turbo Corsa SRI in Jersey back in April and while it was very competent if I'd paid £18k for one albeit with a turbo bolted on and bigger wheels I'd be disappointed. I liked the interior of the Corsa but it couldn't hold a candle to my Fabia in my opinion. In fact our 7 year old Swift on nearly 100k is nicer to drive than that Corsa was.

[Jon_S_Rally]

Vauxhall are in a very odd place I suspect. They're probably a bit stuck while the tentacles of PSA move over every inch of the business, pulling bits off and throwing them in the bin. I wouldn't expect anything special from Vauxhall/Opel until they start producing cars based on PSA platforms. Until then, I suspect it's just going to be a case of cutting costs as much as possible.

Let's hope the VXR brand is retained and benefits from the recent resurgence of the fast Peugeot, with some decent chassis' and engines. If it ends up as a shadow of its former self with half-arsed hybrids and the like, it will be very sad indeed.

I imagine the list price of this Corsa means very little in reality. It will be discounted massively I expect.

[WCZ]

over £20k with the recaro seats

or have an fiesta st2

no brainer

[Howard-]

I know the 0-60 metric is not the be-all and end-all of performance, but I can't help but think almost 9 seconds is pretty slow for a car like this? The Polo 1.0 TSI 115ps only wants 9.5 sec to get to 60, for example. And the previous generation Ibiza FR Edition (1.4 TSI with 140ps) is in the late 7s.

Sounds like a pretty stty engine, really.

Edited by Howard- on Thursday 6th September 16:12

[jay-kay-em]

Robmarriott said:

What’s the colour called? Looks very similar to Mustard yellow from the Nova SR

Nova SR was "Jamaica Yellow" (I think). Probably renamed it since then due to cultural appropriation reasons.

[F1GTRUeno]

Zetec-S said:

simonsaunders said:

They’ll shift some. Somehow, Vauxhall has managed to create some brand loyalty despite decades of producing very average cars.

This really. I think a lot of people buy Vauxhall because they assume it'll have been made in the UK.

It will have been a combination of this in the past for current people's parents passed down plus people just don't really give a st and they see Corsas/Astras/etc on the road all the time so they naturally think of them when they think about getting a car themselves.

[M3_Simon_Fr]

Horrible car. Uh.

[IanJ9375]

Jon_S_Rally said:

Vauxhall are in a very odd place I suspect. They're probably a bit stuck while the tentacles of PSA move over every inch of the business, pulling bits off and throwing them in the bin. I wouldn't expect anything special from Vauxhall/Opel until they start producing cars based on PSA platforms. Until then, I suspect it's just going to be a case of cutting costs as much as possible.

Let's hope the VXR brand is retained and benefits from the recent resurgence of the fast Peugeot, with some decent chassis' and engines. If it ends up as a shadow of its former self with half-arsed hybrids and the like, it will be very sad indeed.

I imagine the list price of this Corsa means very little in reality. It will be discounted massively I expect.

Pretty much bang on I'd say, list price already £4k lopped off - https://www.astonvauxhall.co.uk/used-cars/8932278-...

I'm sure the VXR brand will be back after a short hiatus - in the mean time VX/Opel seem to be doing something right due to actually posting a profit for the first time in god knows how long, that's a good thing for Ellesmere and Luton

[treeroy]

IanJ9375 said:

Pretty much bang on I'd say, list price already £4k lopped off - https://www.astonvauxhall.co.uk/used-cars/8932278-...

I'm sure the VXR brand will be back after a short hiatus - in the mean time VX/Opel seem to be doing something right due to actually posting a profit for the first time in god knows how long, that's a good thing for Ellesmere and Luton

£4,384 off the RRP and haven't even haggled. Thats not too bad.