Category: Superminis 
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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.
It'd be difficult to undercut the Corsa on this score, at least comparing like-for-like cars: it's great value to buy new and there's a healthy demand for secondhand Corsas.
The 1.0 is suitably miserly, giving 50.4mpg and emitting a low-tax 134g/km of carbon dioxide; the 1.2 and 1.4, thanks to Vauxhall/Opel's new Twinport fuel intake technology, deliver 48.7mpg/139 g/km and 47.9mpg/142g/km respectively.
And the diesels? 61.4mpg/124 g/km from both the 75bhp and 90bhp 1.3 CDTis, and 58.8mpg/130 g/km from the 1.7 CDTi.
Good news on the insurance front, too: the 1.0 is classed in Group 1E (T2), with most 1.2 versions in 2E and lower-spec 1.4s and 1.3 diesels in 3E; the quickest SXi models are only 6E.
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