Looks about twice the size of the original Corsa but I must admit it did look quite good, anyone driven one?
Does it have the normal piss poor VX traction qualities, i.e. OK on a dry road but absolutely shit in the wet?
Saw one on the motorway a couple of months ago and looked totally fugly. The driver looked embarresed to be stuck in traffic with it.
driven one around site at work, there ok really. pretty pokey steering wheel is nice and steering feel is nice too. the front pillars i hate though and you seem like your in the back seat rather than the front. oh and your right on the size next to an astra there's not much in it maybe an inch and a bit making it not such a small car
Eww. It looks top heavy and like Vauxhall are trying too hard with it.
Oh and the Corsa advert featured a monkey having a w*nk.
It's based on the Punto, which depending on who you ask is either class leading or decent. Being decent will be quite a leap for the Corsa! :)
I keep mistaking them for the Astra they have got so big, shame that since the death of the lupo there aren't any really good proper small cars about now (maybe the 500 will sort that out but I don't know how big they are).
your kidding? the lupo was s**te and had the turning circle of a bus! the polo now there's not a bad lil car. only small car i'd have though is the new shape mini but there to damn exspensive!
the ST fiesta's aint bad really if i had to go for a small cheap-ish car.
The polo is based on the same floor pan as my Ibiza and they aren't exactly small (park one next to something like a Mk2 Golf), and the same is true of the new mini, though it is tiny inside, outside it's anything but mini.
My mum is looking at a 1.4 Lupo as a 2nd car (hopefully a Sport as I'll drive it sometimes too). Any gotchas?
Pedal box is a known weak spot (as per Polo), and the 1.4 Sport clutch is a bit heavy, so doesn't help. Some gearbox problems apparently, but that seems to be cars driven very hard. Bonnet release cable prone to breaking.
Check for very small rust blisters on edge of roof chanels. Very hard to spot- run your finger along the very edge.
Ours has been very good. It has the tiny rust blisters, but the pedal box is holding up.
Handling is a bit wallowy, though the crap tyres don't help. 100BHP 16V is a nice engine but needs a bootfull of revs- gearing is quite low to take account of this. You can surprise some bigger cars on the motorway as you keep up and pass them at [cough] mph. Throttle action is a bit awkward, but you get used to it, and an adaption with VAG-COM helps.
Most things are straight off a similar age Polo.
I once let a Golf GTi get away, I was 1000rpm short of flat out and more to the redline. Going on claimed top speed I think he must have been flat out. I let up on approach to a junction, he must have been c*ck a hoop for about 1.5 miles. I saw it again about 1 mile after the junction on the hard shoulder, had a white car, with yellow and blue stickers all over it and blue flashing lights on top of it parked behind it. Bet he had at least 1000rpm in hand as well.
Every time I use the M1 there is always a Ford Ka being thrashed at
95mph, seemingly all the way from London to Leeds. Even had one go floating past at night in torrential rain. Maybe he had got on at a junction after the accident 20 miles before that had a Ka rocking on it's roof in lane 1. The cop hiding up the works slip road was having nothing to do with it. He wasn't about to start a 95mph chase in those conditions, just sit tight and wait for the call out to the scene of the next accident.MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.