Test drive Opel Corsa 5 doors 2000 - 2003 hatchback

Valentine

Women love flowers, rich men with taste and small feminine machines. Opel loves women, and therefore, alive flowers replaces Astra, the taste for rich men appears in the form of Omega, and the worthy means of transportation is called Opel Corsa.

 

The fact that the new Corsa could give us unforgettable sensations, we knew even before the test. The operational western press also wrote about the new player from Rysselheim in the classroom, and the German press releases were full of intriguing headlines. But real acute sensations were not hidden in the features of the car suspension and not even in the revolutionary transmission of Easytronic. Do not take this for a stupid joke, but tell me, have you never had to change into women's clothes? If not, nothing crawls into my head except the blue-pink subculture, remember Kalyagin from Aunt Charlie or Dastin Hoffman from Tutsi, it will become easier. If so, then try to remember that feeling of awkwardness-it seems, you can wear something, but everything is not like a man. Did you say? Now open the door of the Corsa to experience what the French call Deja Wu.

 

From what, from what our girls are made

Here it is, painted exclusively in bright colors, the world of bird chirping by phone, Kenzo with Cheti and the endless stories of Oksana Pushkina. Both inside and outside, everything is feminine elegant, lightweight and sensually, starting with a rich ocher color, iridescent crystal of a block-far and stylish rear lights and ending ... Wait why to end, because the appearance of this beauty can be talked endlessly!
 

The three-door silhouette is simple and elegant, which is only worth the smooth line of the roof and the curve of the window opening, the ledkens of the door and the shape of the wings, playing the general landscape, reluctantly parting with it. Did the wrinkle fly in the middle of the hood? No, such a fashionista is not characteristic, it is just a fold - a whim, a false flush, painting the original character of a windy beauty. We look inside, not afraid to be disappointed. And then he soars upside down male pride: the steering wheel is real! Not thin, narrow, small! The man is designed! But the cold -blooded consciousness with a stream extinguishes the flame of emotions: a catch! How do women want to feel in a car? Safe, as if in a large, male sedan, and better a jeep. Hence the Gelendevagenes with Pajers in polls for the eighth of March. So the steering wheel from there is convenient, fat, inspiring confidence. A sort of Yan in the kingdom of Yin.

 

In all other respects - the yin is full, comprehensive feminine and total seductive. The central console with the Audiosystem Management buttons and the air conditioner is in a way sensual and will not tolerate rudeness - its delicate sensory switches and light turntables do not require effort. Deflectors in the center are equally flexible, and between them, like a bright lipstick, the emergency button froze. The instrument panel and the information display in the center are coquettishly covered by the visors slightly lowered for centuries, and the information on them is easily read in any light. Before the eyes of the owner will always have absolutely unnecessary, too complicated and boring information about the speed, engine speed, coolant temperature and the amount of fuel in the tank, as well as the daily and total mileage. The information display, which is in charge of time, air temperature and the names of radio stations, will inform much more important information.

 

The mistress will always be able to correct the makeup, using three mirrors at once: the rear view salon, specially provided for in the sunscreen, and the external, which, thanks to the electro -regulation, will move as it will be. The buttons of control of the hydraulic tank and the rheostat, the purpose of which is also unclear to every second man, is completely out of sight - in the lower left corner of the torpedo. Graceful fingers will always be able to conveniently hold the steering wheel, the height of which can change significantly thanks to the adjustment provided.
 

It will be convenient to place Corses in himself a low mistress and the future winner of Elite Model Look - no one will touch the roof and will not be lost under the instrument panel due to excellent longitudinal and vertical adjustments of the driver's seat. Convenient and German harsh seats will kindly accept any owner: both Rabelazian beauties and fans of Twiggy and Kate Moss. What they lack is lateral support, but who said that on this typewriter they will cut the apexes of racing studs?

 

To friends, to the hairdresser, for shopping ...

In the movement, the new Corsa behaves super -prescribedly, eating and gently swallowing irregularities. You can’t let the hostess feel discomfort! Including do not overload it with knowledge. It is better to be silently proud that the suspension is mounted on a subframe and has a famous storming effect, with which Ford Focus saves thousands of moose throughout Europe. Let the owner get the best - softness, comfort, low rolls in corners, which, however, increase with an increase in speed.
 

You also have to pay for convenience. But this is not so important compared to the convenience of a light steering wheel equipped with an electric power. He simultaneously relieves undeserved severity from both female hands and from the engine in total nothing - 1.2 liters. But the absence of muscles does not mean a lack of strength - even such a low -volume motor will not disappoint his mistress, providing her 75 liters at her disposal. With.

 

She never knows that it belongs to the EcoteC family, has four valves for each cylinder and develops the maximum of its power at 5600 rpm. This is for a husband who will grab the car for a day, and then will admire a week: it pulls on the bottoms well, and she has the same grab after 3,500 revolutions ... But what she will pay attention to is the EasyTronic transmission lever. He will pay attention, think: Oh! The machine means convenient! And he will consider his Corsa further. And he will instruct her husband to understand. He will listen carefully from the seller and will be long and tedious to explain that this is not a machine gun at all, but a regular mechanical transmission, the transmission in which they switch automatically, without squeezing, the pedal is not even.
 

Combining the advantages of two types of checkpoints, Cors with Easytronic and accelerates better than with an automatic machine, and consumes less fuel than with mechanics. But the main thing is that you can move the lever to the right and go automatically, dangling on the phone, and when someone needs to be impressed, you can also in the pseudo-mechanical, pushing the lever forward (higher gears) or back (lower gears). And besides, you can boast of an exclusive girlfriend - such a transmission is supplied only with a 1.2 -liter cory, no one else will have.

 

A lover of abundant shopping and the luggage compartment - 260 liters and 1060 - with a folded rear seat will delight. By the way, the back of the latter is also adjusted by inclination, so that the rear passengers will receive an unexpected pleasant surprise. The creators of the Corsa and about safety did not forget - it is at the highest level. In the standard, the car is equipped with ABS, paired with EBD (electronic brake force distribution system), for powerful versions, there are also tracshn control. In addition, the passively valuable lives of clients guard the seat belts, two airbags and active head restraints that protect the delicate cervical vertebrae when hitting behind.

 

What is the end?

If I was a sultan ..., then my wife would have a Cors, so probably everyone who read this article. The price of the Corsa in the basic configuration is $ 11,200. The version of Comfort, which has been on our test, weighs $ 13,450. Did you like it? If so, then estimate in your mind, how much do you love your spouse?
 
   
 
   
 
 
 
 

Source: Wheel magazine [No. 48/2001]