Vauxhall Corsa 2020 long-term review

Опубликованно 19.08.2020 09:20

Why we’re running it: To get to know Vauxhall’s new supermini and to test the combination of 1.2-litre petrol turbo triple and eight-speed auto

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Life with a Corsa-E: Month 4

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It’s for this moment that we’ve been driving a 99bhp 1.2-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol Vauxhall Corsa for the past 5000 miles. You might have noticed that the car pictured above is its electric sibling, the new Corsa-e Elite Nav, priciest of the electric Vauxhall models. It has been with us precisely one day as this is written.

We figure the petrol versus electric Corsa comparison we’re about to make is one very many people are going to make when choosing the top-selling Vauxhall: should I boldly opt for the new battery model? If you drop one trim level and can be content with what is still a well-equipped car, you can buy our new electric Corsa for ?30,310, just ?3670 more than our former Ultimate petrol edition.

It’s a smaller jump to electric than in other car ranges and affordable when you start toting up the fuel savings, the lack of VED and especially the fact that the Corsa-e is zero-rated for benefit-in-kind tax purposes.

For two cars so similar in size, shape and origin, the differences are instantly stark. Compared with the petrol car, the Corsa-e has a clean, foolproof step-off and impressively strong initial acceleration, as befits a car with a 7.6sec 0-60mph time, most of whose urge is available towards the bottom end of the scale. Road noise seems a bit more prominent, mostly because there’s no engine to drown it out. And, of course, the electric motor is practically vibration-free.

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