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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.ค. 2024
- Later in 2023, Vauxhall will facelift the Corsa. But should you bother waiting? Is the car you can currently buy the better option? After all, it is just some new styling, a slightly bigger battery and more powerful motor. Are you better off sticking with the current car? After nearly 3 years since he originally subjected it to the AutoEV road test, Bryan decides to revisit the little Vauxhall to find out if it is still competitive in a market sector that is dwindling - the B-sctor superminis.
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0:00 - Introduction
01:10 - Titles
01:17 - Meet the car
05:24 - Styling
09:44 - Practicality
12:59 - Interior
22:42 - Usability
23:57 - Performance & Handling
35:35 - Pricing
38:33 - Competition
41:36 - Pros & Cons
42:18 - Summary
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You can pick up some good 20/21 plates of this car for just £13k!
Now down to £11k
Under £9K now and falling
Yes I did, today! GS Registered 31st Jan £14745. 3380 miles
Bargin.
Thanks for your input.
I'll have a video up next week!
This Corsa is nearly twice the price of a petrol version. The electric Astra at £40k is also laughably expensive.
You didn't mention that the rear doors are stupidly narrow and there's a massively wide sill to get your legs across making this definitely a young person's car because older people would struggle in both the front and back.
Second hand Corsa EVs are currently really cheap because they're just not special enough, so expect your new car to depreciate by about £500 every month over 3 years, especially as Vauxhall only have enough faith in their engineering to give that long as a guarantee.
The Asian brands have presented a challenge which Vauxhall have decided to ignore. They will surely suffer for their greed.
I am an American who visits England often. This March I am renting a Corsa E from Hertz. # 1 reason for my renting an E veh is the Auto transmission and with Hertz (almost) renting the vehicle to me for free. U Brits love your manual transmissions, while the rest of us are driving automatics. Automatics makes it easier to negotiate the dreadful driving on the (left) wrong side of the road and negotiating traffic circles every other block.
My wife leased one of the old models because at the time it was available at only £220 pcm! However she is quite disappointed with it due to poor software, some quality issues and particularly the clueless dealers! The current prices make it totally unrealistic vs BYD, MG and Ora.
You can get an "old" 2023 Peugeot e-208 GT Premium with 8 miles on the clock for £26,028 from the Day's Motorpark group in South Wales. That is £10,000 off !!
Yeah, there is no way this can compete with the BYD dolphin on cheap and practical EV. Now the Peugots at least have really nice interiors but this doesn't have anything to compete on that level. There is also the Volvo EX30 sister car of the Smart #1 that is an established brand in Europe that this cannot compete with.
Byd=fire 🔥 just Google it
Does diesel one comes with sunroof as well ?
Really enjoyed the review as my Corsa (21 plate Elite Nav Premium) sits between the 2 reviews you've done. Fair comments about the indicators and brakes although you quickly get used to them both but suspect jumping from many different cars as you do the difference is more noticeable. Centre armrest (top) does slide forward and the drivers instrument view can be changed by twisting the end of the indicator stalk. The centre display for temperature is for overriding the auto function so most of the time it's not needed. As another comment mentioned, winter range isn't great (120) but in summer 170 - 180 on trips from W Yorkshire to either cost, Norfolk and Scotland and I've had just over 200 too. I chose the Corsa because it met my needs and, at the time, B sector car choices were, and still are to a certain extend, limited. Would I have another, probably yes, but not at that price point, even if it meant having to go up a car size. (Astra prices are rumoured to be upwards of £40k so not sure they're reading the room)
With so many different evs coming onto the Market you'd wonder is this going to sell at all. Then saying that the Toyota BZ4X is selling well near where I live despite all the negative press.
I hope that there's a manual release in the new Corsa-e for stuck cables
I have an e208 (same car) and never had any issue with stuck cables either at home or public charging.
I have one of the first production cars and could only take delivery after the first lockdown. I don’t agree with the comments about the brakes or the comment that “it’s just a Corsa”
I also like the styling it’s plain and functional. As for the price, it struggles against cars from China but it is not fair to compare the top priced Corsa against a bottom of the range e Niro or a new Kona. A top spec car from either of those will set you back well over 40k.
I absolutely love the way I can drive up to traffic lights and leave everything behind. I have embarrassed many a BMW and the odd Aston Martin driver because they thought “it’s just a Corsa”. Zero to 30 in under 3 seconds is shifting.
My only gripe is the battery size and an extra 10% isn’t good enough for me. Battery performance in really cold weather isn’t good either. Range drops like a brick and charging speed when cold is terrible. Vauxhall have undated my software so efficiency is much improved in Milder weather. On a recent trip to Scotland I was getting 3.8 miles / kW at 65 to 70 and cruising on B roads and country lanes I was getting up to 5 m/kWh. Not bad at all. I live in Lancashire so London, Bristol, Glasgow and Edinburgh are about 200 miles away. These are out of range. My next car will have a bigger battery so I am seriously looking at the MG4. If there was a 65kWh Corsa I would buy it.
Vauxhall will have to slash their prices at point of sale to compete on any level.
They will, I assume, but this won't be enough to save the brand when the Chinese come in numbers.
I just purchased a brand new Anniversary edition last week for £21,500
I'm assuming it was worth it for that price considering the new face-lift model will be a lot more
Great review and generally a good competent car but a crazy price. Everybody wants to be premium and there isn’t room for everyone so there will be a bloodbath.
Is your enthusiasm for this car reflected in the quality of the video playback?...
ooh that Price Bryan! and for a bland. car stick with my Honda e I think. By the way don't worry about being out of date, my son tells me that everyday.
Good luck with your Honda E which has a range of 7 miles LOL
You're reviewing this years after it was released and is imminently being face-lifted 🤷🏼♂️
Yes.....did you watch the video where I explained why?
❤I drive an e208GT (company car) in the nice red shown here, which would have been £35k to buy myself. IMHO it beats the Corsa e in every aspect - most definitely better looking and I think better driving (I did try a Corsa). Both quite small cars though in the back and both overpriced.
I can’t see myself getting another small Stellantis car over something like an MG4 when they are £5K to £7k more for a smaller car and less range. Then there’s as you say other Chinese competitors and the Kia’s, ID3’s, Megane e-Tech etc etc. Sorry but this is way down the list now and needs either a complete new design or a big price drop.
Only caveat to this is the Jeep Avenger as that looks gorgeous and my wife might trump my more sensible choices as she absolutely loves it!
Unless you are totally against anything Chinese, i cant see why you would go corsa E over an mg4
Nope not for me at that price, worth waiting for the Chinese stuff to hit the market in Q4 2023 / Q1 2024 or add a few quid and buy an entry level Tesla model 3 with nationwide charging infrastructure
Yeahhh but Tesla's are awful
There is no electric Renault Clio. How is that the competition???
It was an error (which I put up on subtitles) I meant Zoe.
Hey. I’m buy coursa Used car
But he give me fake green slip .dvla say green slip invalid
Dealer no confirm me acindint car and C /B paint car without any information He 5k
Typical Opel. They bore you with car and screw you for the price
I have a Corsa 20 plate Elite Nav Primium Auto, and I have to say it has been the most unreliable car I've ever owned! The list of failures has been enormous, but software bugs have been the worst, and the dealers are pretty much clueless. Now I've just watched this review, and the price, is this a joke? Have Vauxhall not heard of Tesla? The Tesla Model 3 is priced at £39,990 and that's a 2024 refreashed model! Vauxhall and its parent company Stellantis, are not long for this world. I shell be getting rid of my Corsa soon and will never set foot in a Vauxhall showroom again... Bye bye Vauxhall, it's been nice knowing you, rest in peace .........................
Fair enough but it's laughable if you think Tesla is better 😂😂😂😂 Tesla literally has the highest amount of any failures, software bugs and mechanical failures than any brand. Dog shit cheap plastic
it looks like an Astra from 20 years ago. Terrible, for the price.
no comparison with MG4...
Stellantis need to up their game. Most of their models are compliance cars, they need to develope an EV platform. Once the Chinese cars appear in numbers then Stellantis could end up being history. The Corsa is a boring, overpriced compliance car and even the new facelift model does nothing to change this. Bryan is really working hard with this review.
Wow what a disappointing car , against the opposition of the same value 😕 😞
The phrase "hot hatch" should be banned from car reviews.
Why?
@@AutoEV it's overused..
@@decimal1815 like “sports car” or “SUV”? It defines a genre of car.
@@AutoEV hatchback? "Hot hatch" is some kind of Clarkson throwback. Not getting at you btw. Just a whole bunch of reviews seem to assume viewers have a mental age of 15, and are male petrolheads.