Opel Corsa Test drive 5 doors since 2011 hatchback

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If you are small, then this does not mean that you are bad and no one needs. A small car can cause great love, for example, if it is Ford Fiesta or Opel Corsa.
Turnist the path of small classes on Russian roads. Here in Europe is another matter, there are kids in Tabor. Any brands, models and modifications. And with us - someone is lucky. And lucky-one or two and expected. Peugeot 206 Yes Skoda Fabia - that’s all, perhaps. Well, you can also drink Renault Symbol here, although this is a special case.
Here is the Opel Corsa - after all, the model is universal, it is made by 11 factories on five continents (since 1983, when the production was started, more than 9 million pieces have been collected), and in the sales ratings in its class, it is among the leaders. But this is there, behind the hill, and we, let’s say, are not massive. Why? Money, gentlemen, money. More precisely, the ratio of size is. And also the psychological threshold between before and after the chervonets. Our people, perhaps, would buy small cars, but few are ready to pay more than $ 10 thousand for the urban Pyrzik. And who decided, he lays them for the 206th and Fabia already mentioned-therefore these models were spinning, that they have versions below dozens.
A DARK HORSE. Now on this bumpy field, for the kids very unfavorable, another player has appeared - the new Ford Fiesta. The question is logical: what are the prospects? The accuracy of the forecast interferes ... Ford itself. How? Yes, your focus! Rather, ours, Vsevolozhsky ...
Arithmetic is such. They are going to sell a new fiesta in Russia for $ 13 600-15 900. This is the price range for the most popular Ambiente and Trend configurations, which are in the middle of the form of the Ford Forman Range in terms of equipment: the first just above the base, the second just below luxury. They don’t plan to order dealers with luxury ghia (apparently, so as not to scare potential customers, because the price for it will probably roll up to the second psychological threshold - twenty). The basic equipment, empty Core, will also be sold. The exact prices for it have not yet been declared, but it is clear that they will be by no means Zhigulevsky.
 
The new Fiesta almost accurately falls into that price niche, where another Ford-Russian Focus, which, as you know, refers to the golf class C, that is, the rank is a step higher than the fiesta. The question is, who will buy Fiesta in Russia if Focus can be purchased for the same money?
Ford dealers answer this question something like this: they say, Fiesta is intended for those fastidious consumers who consider the Vsevolozhsk Focus a shack and certainly wants a car made in Europe, even if the class below.
OPTICAL ILLUSION. Ford Fiesta and Opel Corsa are ideologically very close to each other - these are representatives of the clan of small city hatchbacks, who, according to the layout of the concept, are ordered to be large inside. To get the maximum of living space with very modest external dimensions, both cars are built on very large wheelbases for their class. The Corsa base has the longest in class B (2490 mm), in Fiesta it is only shorter for a few millimeters (2485 mm). At the same time, Fiesta itself is 10 cm longer, wider than 3.5 cm and higher by 2 cm and the luggage compartment, it has 25 liters more than that of Corsa (285 versus 260 l), however, only with the rear seats established. And if you fold them, then Opel is even more spacious (1060 liters against FIESTS 950 liters) - these are the features of the layout.
Visually Fiesta is perceived as a kind of degeneration - at least next to the corsa - thanks to body contours. The Ford Model is more lobele, in addition, it has a huge windshield of a kind of aquarium type for such a small machine, and therefore it looks somehow more solid.
Mal, yes remov. The living space of both cars is quite decent. Of course, there is no particular spaciousness-it is not limousines after all, but there is no tightness. By the way, Corsa after its model update, when it added 5 cm in a wheelbase, and in the inner width of the cabin - 8 cm, became one of the comfort standards in class B. Now, in this row, next to Fiat Punto and the same Fabia with 206, a new Fiesta also got up-it also has very competently (of course, within its dimensional capabilities), a small principle is realized-a large inside.
For the test we got a demonstration Fiesta performed by Ghia with a top engine-a 100-horsepower gasoline, 1.6 liters and ordinary mechanics. Driving impressions are the most positive. The machine is light, and hundreds of horses are more than enough for it to ensure amazing edification - you can rush decently from the traffic light, and jump out of the counterclaim to overtake. Of course, the motor is not racing, there is no need to deceive here, but everything that is entrusted to it is brilliantly.
The only claim to this engine (as, indeed, to the other fiesta in our market,-1.3 and 1.4-liter, the power of 70 and 80 hp) applies to the consumed fuel. We need 95th gasoline-and this once again leads to sad thoughts about the prospects of the fiesta in Russia. After all, the vast majority of city babies (the same Corsa, for example) calmly digest the 92nd-for someone it is full-time, for someone tolerant. Moreover, the intra-corporate competitor of FIEST-Russian Focus-can also eat 92th gasoline. Somehow it's all strange.
Mechanical machine. In Corsa, the motor-transmission combination turned out to be very interesting, if not cool. Under the hood of a 1.2 liter motor and a capacity of 75 horses. Not the largest and most powerful of the Korsovsky engines (the gasoline row of the Corsa begins with a 58-horsepower 1-liter and ends with a 1.8 liter engine that is issuing 125 hp), but with it, and only with it, the box is going on Easytronic. It seems to many with nonsense - they say, such a small engine and with an automatic machine, but there is nothing unnatural here. The fact is that Easytronic is not an automatic machine, but a mechanical 5-speed checkpoint, the peculiarity of which is that you can switch both automatically and manually, without squeezing the adhesion pedal (it, in fact, is not here). This gearbox that has taken away by the automaton takes away the engine much less power than the classic machine gun - this is its main advantage.
In the parking lot I want to habitually transfer it to the P (Parking) mode, in which you can not put the car on the handbrake-but there is no parking regime. It is necessary to leave the box on neutrals and at the same time be sure to squeeze the handbrake, otherwise the car can roll. We learned to cunning: we jammed the motor, leaving the selector on the drive or in the back, then the handbrake can not be stopped. But if you drown out the engine to neutrals, and only then transfer the selector to the transmission (front or rear - it doesn’t matter), as is usually done on machines with mechanics, the transmission will not turn on - it must be remembered.
HIGH JUMP. Both cars - both Corsa and Fiesta - can be very worthy to charge with options if desired. Standard spectrum: air conditioning, audio with a CD player, an electric package, etc., a global trend is felt as much as possible to tighten the models to the fact that at least the class above. In the fiesta, you can especially note the heating of the windshield - a damn useful little thing, especially if you take into account its huge sizes.
It’s too early to talk about the features of operation Fiesta - the model has not really reached Russian roads. But regarding Corsa, the experience has already accumulated considerable. The car is generally not bad. True, there is one annoying inconsistent in it, very noticeable in our climate - the stupid location of the battery. He here, count, outside - in the air intake pocket between the motor compartment and the outer part of the torpedo. Plastic trump chips, as if with a fig leaf covering terminals, are almost not saved from snow (tested in winter during powerful snowfalls), and from water with washing liquid flowing from the glass. Ford has not yet been detected by such egregious structural blunders. However, what are her years ...
 
Text Sergey Sorokin, photo Alexey Ilyin

Manufacturer/country Ford Motor Company/Germany Adam Opel AG/Germany
BODY
Type hatchback hatchback
Number of doors/places 5/5 5/5
ENGINE
Gasoline type gasoline with injection
The location in front transversely transversely
Working volume (cubic meter) 1596 1199
Number/location of cylinders 4/in -line 4/in -line
Power, kW (L.S.) at about./Min. 74 (100) at 6000 55 (75) at 5600
Moment (Nm at about./Min.) 146 at 4000 110 at 4000
TRANSMISSION
Front front drive
Gearbox mechanical 5-speed automated mechanical 5-speed Easytronic
SUSPENSION
Front/rear independent McPherson/semi -dependent independent McPherson/semi -dependent
STEERING
Type gear rack with a hydraulic booster gear rack with an electrical improver
Min. Diameter of turn (m) 10.3 10.4
Brakes
Front/rear disk/drum disk/drum
Dimensions/volumes/weight
Length/width/height (mm) 3915/1680/1460 3815/1645/1440
Wheel base (mm) 2485 2490
Equipped mass (kg) 1045 960
Tires/Disks 175/65 R14/5.5JX14 175/65 R14/5.5JX14
Dynamic characteristics
Maximum speed (km/h) 185 170
Acceleration to 100 km/h (sec.) 10.6 14.0
Economy
The average fuel consumption (city/highway, l/100 km) 9.1/5.2 8.0/5.2
The price in Moscow for the GHIA set is not declared $ 11,440 (Comfort equipment)

 

Source: "Autopilot"