Steve001

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£22K is a bit steep for a corsa, but have a read of this

R-rated: We drive the ultimate Corsa VXR-R - Auto Trader UK - Features - News and Reviews Hub



i know, i know, it wont be any good on the wet twisties

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LUCKO

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i can see the masses of spotty nerds knocking the doors down at the dealers to buy this

Steve001

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you know what there like i think it comes with a free 'Scooby Killer' sunstrip

LUCKO

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or a tub of oxy10

Steve001

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you got to admit its quite a spec for an egg carton on wheels? but £22K you can get an RB320 for that!

they will sell thou like the Clio V6 but that was a very nice car

LUCKO

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woeful price, gimme a v5 type r and save over £15k

myblackwrx

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0-60 in 5.4 seconds woo hoo

Does 160mph so is faster than a M3 and RS6 which are both limited to 155mph iirc

Timwinner

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Somewhere in China someone is knocking out a load of cheap body kits as we speak.

Glowplug

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Spot on myblackwrx the Germans are indeed limited, besides the fact that by the time it gets to 160 the BMW, audi and lotus would of been bouncing off the limiter for some time and be long gone

wiley

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If I had to buy a hot hatch(new), it would be a clio 197 which is imo a much better acr all round

Wiley

mike1210

I like the idea of what they have done, made a crazy hatch but being blunt. People who would buy a Corsa couldn't afford it let alone insure it. People who could afford it would I'm guessing buy something else. 22k buys a lot of second hand car. I do like it though to be honest, crazy fast for what it is

HankScorpio

I have a picture in my head of that car doing 160 and the panels peeling off

Steve001

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i guess we will get to know what its like if 'The Stig' gets his claws on it

some say he can change traffic lights with a nod of the head

and that his internal organs can withstand 20g

stilover

I guess it will be a very fast car. The only thing that would put me off is the suspension. It looks too low to be any good on a bumpy back road. More suited to smooth roads and tracks.

I quite like the Corsa VXR. But the Corsa is certainly not a `SMALL` car. I had one for a few weeks (1.2) and hated it. It felt a big car, and everything was too light and numb. The VXR will be a different car all together.

But at £22k, I think I swerve towards the BMW dealer and order a Mini cooper S Works. That's if I was buying new.

You can pick up a hell of a lot of second hand cars now a days for £22k.

wrx287

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22k Thats 22b money! I know where my money would go

Jamescsti

Agreed, we have a number of 5 door Corsa's at work and they are not that far off the size of the current Astra

scoobberdoo

Agreed, what a complete load of bollo**s

Matteeboy

Not sure what an M3 does delimited (about 170ish?) but an RS6 will do over 200...!

P20SPD

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I have had 175 indicated on my M3, and it was still accelerating.

Jacey Boy

I'd take the new Focus RS

nisr227

Nice to know another is pushing the power beyond the limits of fwd.

But another miscontrue article that suggests 0-60mph and top speed (unlimted) is the way how you compare cars' performance these days. Why won't the press stop using these old fashioned and dated comparisons, and use 0-100's (or even 60-100) instead which show the larger picture??

That mentioned, to hit 60 in 5.6secs in a front wheel drive car (the standard VXR weighs about 1170kg) it will certainly require semi-slick track tyres to get the power down on a normal road (even with the trick diff this example had) and I see no mention of this other than in the "options", so that figure is not explained very well again.

If it did this 0-60, then the 0-100 could well be under 14secs which is still pretty quick for a small(ish) car, more than enough to put a smile on your face and cover ground well, but not enough to keep up with the (mentioned) RS6 that would of left it for dead by then!

ffs £22k for a corsa..your having a laugh, against a new £25k 300bhp Focus RS it looks very expensive, against the second hand market obsene. You can get a second hand 996 turbo for £25k these days (or be it very expensive to run).

As a fast drivers hot hatch give me a year old half-the-price (£11k) Megane R26, or even Mini Cooper S Works, any day!

gallois

"acceleration out of bends is phenominal", "the steering wheels tugs slightly".........................of course it does.

scoobberdoo

The driver tugs a lot

audioscape

scoobydoo4u

ummmmmmmmmmmmm surely just spend 13k on a vxr and then take it to regal or courtney and spend £3000 on the exhaust , intercooler , remap and suspension

or am i being daft
fair enuff no warranty but that gives you 6.5k burning a hole in youre back pocket

dome

I second that, i had a new shape 1.2 for one night and thought it was absolutely f"cking dreadful. I'm not being a snob, my parents have a 1.4Tdci Fiesta which is a dream to drive in comparison and my ex has a Ka which I also liked.

Something about the Corsa just rubbed me up the wrong way. Far too heavy, no torque, horrible interior, crap steering and it felt like a big car but horrible in crosswinds. Never since I drove 200 miles in a Mk3 Golf GTi 8 valve have I hated a car so much. And I once owned a Fiat Strada

lozgti

Would something like that be group 20 insurance?

Just seems aimed at kids who couldn't actually afford to run it?

I'm not going to knock it though.I want car companies to keep building pocket rockets and fast cars and stop the green tosh 'eco' junk