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: 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: 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, 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: 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: Good engine, looks, interior.
Disadvantages: Barmy low-ratio gears, irritating design faults, tiny boot.

...I drove one of these for over a week while my car was being repaired. I have to agree with the other more negative reviews, for 14 years on from my first car (a Mk 1 Corsa) I don't think anything has improved! It looks cool, the interior is fine, it was pretty refined, and most of the car was what you should expect from a brand new model. However... It is no longer small, about the size of an older Astra! The forward visibility was poor - I am 6 feet tall and couldn't guess where the front was! The thick pillars make pulling out from junctions a bit tricky. In the SXi model the suspension is far too hard making the car feel as if it was jumping round bumpy corners, rather than being fast (as was intended?) No feel from the steering wheel either. The gearing ratios are daft - far too low. The engine pulled really well from low revs... 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: Easy to drive, economical
Disadvantages: Boring as you can imagine

...LONG TERM TEST: Vauxhall Corsa 1.2i Merit PLODDING ALONG Long term tests can be a Godsend. As motoring journalists we usually have a car for just one or two days which only normally equates to around 4 hours driving time. In this time we have to make judgements which could, we hope, have an effect on whether or not readers buy the car. Having a car for 6 months allows us to make some real judgements of the merits and pitfalls of a car in day to day use. However, in this case, when I was landed with the task of driving Vauxhall’s Corsa 1.2i Merit for 6 months, the 4-hour test seemed much more appealing. It’s not that the Corsa has a bad reputation, it just doesn’t have a good reputation. My assignment was to determine once and for all, is the Corsa any good? The Corsa is an awful piece of automotive engineering. First... 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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