Vauxhall Corsa D (2006 - ) - Corsa D 1.0 Life

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Tue 23 Sep 2008 19:44
Corsa D 1.0 Life - hxj
Well I took my car in to be repaired and was handed the keys to a bright new yellow 3 door Corsa 1.0 Life. Oh dear how am I going to get around in that was the second thought that crossed my mind - the first was 'I hate the colour'!

My youngest daughter thought that it was the coolest car in the world, and the eldest grudgingly called it 'distinctive', although it has now been nicknamed the banana car. It was certainly very easy to spot in the car park yesterday, I have actually grown to like the combination, cheeky and chirpy.

I've driven the car about 700 miles in a week, mainly motorway at 75 mph ish, it naturally cruises at that sort of speed, and used £76 ish of petrol, aroound 50 mpg, not bad. Comfort was good for a fat old git

Given the dire performance statistics it performs well, work it reasonably hard and it will keep up with the traffic. Far less like a go-kart than the Aygo, but much more comfortable, and less strained, on the motorway, albeit a bit noisy at high speeds.

I will miss it tomorrow when it goes back. Altogether a pretty good car for in town driving and copes well with windy A-roads and motorways. I am biased as SWMBO has a 1.4 Design, but that is a much more sophisticated, whereas the Life is much cheekier.

At brokers brand new for just under £8,000, in my view a pretty and impressive package.


Edited by hxj on 23/09/2008 at 19:45

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Tue 23 Sep 2008 22:27
Corsa D 1.0 Life - carl_a
Sounds like it's an ok car, quite impressive MPG as that is something the corsa isn't known for. A bit expensive though discounted at 8k, at 6k it may be worth considering. Insurance group 1 is appealing but otherwise it's below average spec and a rather dull choice.
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Tue 23 Sep 2008 22:42
Corsa D 1.0 Life - Mick Snutz
Just goes to show how the basic things in life can often make you happy. It proves you can get by without leather, satnav and other fancy gizmos if you really had to.
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Tue 23 Sep 2008 23:49
Corsa D 1.0 Life - P3t3r
That fuel consumption sounds terrible IMHO. The 1.0 gets 50mpg on the combined cycle so I would expect near 60mpg at last on a mostly motorway journey. My car gets only 46mpg on the combined cycle, but usually gets about 57-59mpg on a motorway run.

The Aygo looks great and gets reasonable fuel consumption, but is awful in every other way IMHO.

£8000 seems like a lot for a basic one, especially when you can get a 1.4 16V GP Grande Punto for that money.
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Wed 24 Sep 2008 05:52
Corsa D 1.0 Life - jase1
£8000 seems like a lot for a basic one especially when you can get a
1.4 16V GP Grande Punto for that money.


Or a brand-new, 2-litre Dodge Avenger ;)

Hmmm, Avenger or Aygo on the motorway. I wonder. The Dodge would have to be pretty abysmal to be beaten by the tin-box on the open road!
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