Category: Superminis 
Price Range: No data available
Value for money, smart looks, better quality than before, good diesel engines, wide choice of versions, trims and options.
Underpowered petrol engines, not as roomy as you'd think.
Cheap and cheerful, not cheap and nasty; it'll be a best-seller, and deservedly so.
The Corsa has always been pretty reliable for such a mass-market model, and over the years, its quality has been much-improved. This latest version has a distinctly Germanic feel to it (well, it is really an Opel), and like the current Astra, is finished with much more attention to detail and better-quality materials than its predecessor.
Most of the mechanicals have already been tried and tested, either in the Astra and Meriva or in the Grande Punto, and the excellent, award-winning 1.3 CDTi diesel engine is certainly well-proven.
An interesting fact: the three-door 1.3 CDTi Corsas are assembled in a factory in Eisenach, near Dresden, originally the HQ of German firm Wartburg/Dixi, and then, until the aftermath of World War II, BMW. That factory made Trabants until the collapse of the Iron Curtain, but don't let that put you off... the other Corsa versions, by the way, are made in Zaragoza, Spain. Either way, they all look well up to scratch on the basis of what we've seen so far.
Latest Readers' Drives About the Vauxhall Corsa
wrote on 15 12 2008
wrote on 15 06 2008
wrote on 13 03 2008
wrote on 17 10 2007
wrote on 18 09 2007
wrote on 19 12 2006