Advantages: Looks, Performace, Running Costs, Equipment
Disadvantages: Handling in wet, Vauxhall Dealer.

...I currently own a 53 plate Silver Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 SXi, im going to try provide a short and sweet review on the car for any potential buyers. Engine and Performance: Whilst a 1.2 engine may put potential buyers off due to a lack of power, it should be noted that this potential 16v engine is one of the best in its class, boasting one of the best 0-60mph times of 11.6 seconds. The engine is superb through the gears, although it is revved a little hard at motorway speeds but not enough to be a problem. 9\10 - Excellent pokey engine for the size. Equipment: The SXI comes standard with a CD player with steering wheel controls, electric windows and mirrors, 15" alloy wheels and sports seats. It also has little touches like being lowered with white dials inside and a general more aggressive, sporty look to the car. The CD player... Read review

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Advantages: Small, reliable, easy to drive and safe
Disadvantages: Fuel consumption slightly high

...will out-accelerate some older model 1.4 engines. Good acceleration in 3rd gear for coming onto short motorway slip roads. Brakes are good. Uprated sports discs and brake pads make emergency stops quick and easy. PRACTICALITY Practicality is good too, with a fairly large boot size for a small car, probably enough space to fit in a set of golf clubs, or a few suit cases. May be difficult for tall passengers to get in the back of the car with the 3 door Corsa, but once in theres plenty of space to go round. VERDICT With owning this car since the beginning of the year, my honest opinion is that overall, the Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 sxi is a fantastic car. It is very asy to drive, standard features are good and it feels like a bigger car than what it actually is. I would recommend this car to any driver who is looking for value for money... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, reliable little run around
Disadvantages: Waiting for delivery

...I recently bought the 2002 model Vauxhall Corsa 1.2Sxi, I was attracted to it by the great look, only then did I find out what advantages it actually has. It was priced at £8500, with the choice of 3 years intrest free credit. When I was looking round the showroom I was looking at all differnt types of models like the diesel and the petrol 1.2club etc (6999), but none were a patch on the Sxi. The difference being the interior and power to the engine: The interior on a Club is very standard, everything is platic and cheap looking, it has a radio casette, and even a coloured plastic gearnob, however the Sxi hs a CD player, Twin airbag, central locking, alloy wheels, twin spoiler and fog lamps it also has a great sporty effect on the dashboard ( a metallic grey). The car also has great security, the remote control... Read review

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Advantages: Good range of feature. Cheap running costs.
Disadvantages: Very common cars.

...a lapbelt across the rear middle seat. Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 SXI 3 Door choice of Colours New from Vauxhall For £7495. Only problem was Vauxhall made you buy on there finance and it cost over 10k over 4 years. If you wanted it for cash they added £500 finance discount back on and were now charging for metallic paint at £250. The price was not so much of a bargain now.... Our Star car ************ We got sick of looking and thought about just extending the warranty for another year or two and just stopped looking....Until I got a leaflet with my Lloyds TSB bank statement offering special offers from Car Select. On the front cover was a Shiney Black Sporty looking Corsa SXI. They offered Corsa for just over £6300 and therefore I expected that to be for the Basic 1.0 Club Model....Wrong.. The price was for the SXI model until 17th March... Read review

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Advantages: Reliabilty, Handling, Economy, Insurance Prices, Safety, Acceleration, Depreciation
Disadvantages: They don't make this model anymore! The new corsa's interior is just hideous!

...This small, sporty, cheap hatchback is, frankly, the work of automotive genius! I am only 18, and this was/is my first car. I always wanted a Corsa, ever since my uncle bought one. As i was browsing through the pages of a well known auto trade magazine i stumbled across a black Corsa 1.2 SXi. I thought 'wow, now that's a sexy hot-hatch' and thought no more of it, dismissing it with thoughts of tear-inducing insurance prices. But, it turns out that this was one of the easiest and cheapest cars to insure! Now, unlike the Peugeot 206 Gti or the Citroen C2 VTR, the Corsa has got all the looks, without the enormous, fuel guzzling engine (and also minus that scratchy black plastic wrinkly french interior!). After going and looking at a couple, my mind was set - i was going to have one of these cars. And what a choice it turned out to be... Read review

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Advantages: Style, Quality, Ride, Comfort and Cost
Disadvantages: None!

...INTRODUCTION Vauxhall Man strikes again! After 6 years and one month, we finally decided to part company with our rather good little Vauxhall Corsa ‘Sport’ (See my previous Op); and after the usual tramp around the showrooms we have replaced it with... another Vauxhall Corsa – an Sxi 1.2 16-valve! This time, however, we opted for the Corsa Sxi, and, now baby is less of a baby and more of a little girl, we decided that 5 doors (i.e. 4 doors and a boot) are better than 3 doors (that is – 2 doors and a boot)! Having now owned 3 Corsas, 1 Nova (‘No go’ in Spanish?!?) from new and one nearly new Cavalier it has been interesting to note the changes in design and quality from Vauxhall (Opel/General Motors) in the last few years – mostly these changes have been positive. So where to begin... Read review

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Advantages: Diesel engine so fuel economy is good. Much better styling inside and outside
Disadvantages: It's still a Corsa from Vauxhall, which means it's still by General Motors.

..., it was different somehow. The car had a different sort of styling to it, it had a different feel. The angled headlights made the car look angrier now, and the angled back made it look like a sports coupe. The alloys actually looked like they were the right size for the car and the backend didn’t look bad either, but it still has an unnecessary spoiler. I was thoroughly surprised, a Vauxhall Corsa that was actually pretty nice to look at. My mate then got out of his car, walked up to me with a slight swagger, and smiled at my surprised face. “It is a Corsa that is, and it is a SXi. But this is the new Corsa SXi CDTi 1.3l 16v 90ps.” For those that don’t know what that meant, he was boasting about his Corsa being the ‘sport’ model, which if you have read my previous review, I slated immensely. But this was a different sort of Corsa, it was a CDTi... Read review

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Advantages: Small but perfectly formed
Disadvantages: None

...If you’d asked me six months ago, what car I have, I would have replied: “A blue one.” Now if you ask the same question, you’d get something along the lines of: “A 3 door Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 Sxi with twin airbags….” Admittedly, I am not an expert on speed, revs per minute (or whatever they are) or abs (I thought that was some sort of muscle in your stomach), but since taking ownership of my beloved Corsa, I have become a lot more interested in cars in general. I started looking for a replacement for my annoying Ford Fiesta, after the gearbox seized up on the way to an important meeting. I did some research and asked around at work for any ideas for a small, nippy car. Two of my friends recommended the Corsa, while others recommended the Toyota Yaris and the Ford Ka. So off I went, spending all my weekends trawling... Read review

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Advantages: Parking. You can drive in one. That's it.
Disadvantages: Without one, you'll have to make do with another form of transport, such as walking

...keep talking about it's power being insufficient, and I will explain why here. This car with its 1.2 litre engine at most can output 64 brake horsepower, or 81 torque. The Golf GTi Edition 30 with it's 2 litre engine has 226 brake horsepower or 221 torque, and a top speed of 152mph. That is phenomenally more than the Corsa SXi and this is why the Golf is a Supermini. It sounds like one as well and makes the Corsa sound like a middle aged man gargling in the morning. I will talk to you now about what it comes with. The SXi comes with the alloys and spoiler as standard, as well as some nice little additions such as Air Conditioning, anti-lock brakes and power assisted steering. The radio will be the classic Vauxhall bland cassette tape player unless the previous owner opted for the CD player or fitted a new one himself. Metallic paint also... Read review

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Advantages: Great looks, great economy, cheap (ish) to insure
Disadvantages: Looks like a sports car, but doesn't have an engine to match

...I've owned my Corsa SXi for two and a half years now. It has provided me with everything the average buyer could home for in a car of this class. The SXi model was originally due to be a limited special edition. So, I bought one in it's first generation, before Vauxhall decided to alter a few small things (actually, they just altered the badge) and bring it back due to it's popularity. The SXi is essentiall a step down from the Sport model. The SXi has a much more friendly relationship with the insurance companies, thanks to its 1.2 litre, 16 valve engine. When I bought the car, Vauxhall were giving away 2 years free insurance. As I was just 19 when I bought it (or rather, when my Dad bought it for me), this was great, as insurance costs would have been far to high otherwise. Once this insurance ran out (which was in January this year... Read review

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