Test Drive Opel Corsa OPC since 2011 Hatchback

Dercooked Blue, Test Opel Corsa OPC

The Opel Corsa small car has long been in the right and is considered to be a female typewriter. Under the choice of motors, from liter up to 1.4 liters. What to do if the owner from the car grew or wants not like everyone else? For such cases, the manufacturer from Rüsselsheim prepared the magic blue letters OPC. A little more than ten years ago, the Opel plant created a Division of Performance Center, which specializes in the factory tuning of the entire model range. Nothing unusual in the fact that it happened in Germany, no. It is the Germans that are the largest fans of all improvements, such as the installation of antiques, turbines and sports seats. This industry originated in West Germany more than 30 years ago, and she is engaged in her former riders and mechanics from motor racing.
Opel Corsa OPC is a bright embodiment of factory tuning on a classic recipe. We take a massive smalltractor and by installing a turbine forcing a 1.6-liter motor almost up to 200 forces! Many street offices would be limited on this, but the specialists from Opel are the rules. It is known that increasing power must necessarily entail the complex processing of the car. Consequently, the car received a low suspension with sports shock absorbers, stabilizers robust and reinforced brakes. In conclusion, decor elements: stylish aerodynamic kit, large wheels, sports steering wheel, Recaro seats and pedal lining. In addition to this, undereded outer DTM style mirrors and a decorative diffuser. It turned out bold. We support the dish?
I unpain the massive door, I sit down in the deep bucket RECARO and fasten, it is in order noting that it is very uncomfortable to stretch behind the belt (the benefit on the backs there are hooks where the strap can be attached after the trip). The interior practically repeats the usual CORSA in a rich configuration. From changes - a sports steering wheel with a cropped lower part and OPC noted on devices and a gearbox. In general, the salon is made with taste, but cold technodesign and harsh plastic are not inclined to create a positive mood. Some dissonance comes out, come to the naughty baby, and you find yourself in a strict sports car. The mood also spoils mediocre visibility (very massive front racks and narrow mirrors) and the absence of a machine. Without a doubt, OPC sales increased if an automatic was available. To help teapots, there is only an anti-digit system, clamping the handbrake on the rise and allows you to touch without rolling.
Again the start, he is taken, and there is no way back, and in a circle of horses ripe, almost fly, as if about Corsa OPC sings the time machine. The turbo engine in combination with a slight weight allows you to accelerate very intense. True, the sprint may be somewhat smeared by the first two gears, they are too short, only fused the pedal, already switched. Despite the fact that the maximum torque is available on a very wide shelf, it is necessary to switch on high revs to not fall into the turboyam. Up to 2000 rpm engine frankly no, the figure, though small, but it gives it to the second transmission for a long time. Typing speed, straight confidently, and turns pass, as the doctor prescribed. With the manageability of full order steering in the measure sharp, does not annoy at high speeds and in the studs does not cause the steering wheel once again. By the way, the plump sports steering wheel is pleased to keep it nice, and there is no complaints to the crop part. It also focuses on the control of the audio system and the Bluetooth telephone. Music itself without delights, plays satisfactory and does not fit with the image of a youth machine. Neither a subwoofer nor aggressive notch. Another claim to the sound of the exhaust. Compared with stock Corsa, it, of course, bass, but not on all the money. From such a herd wants to beat.
Above all silence of brakes with corporate blue OPC calipers. The pedal is sensitive, but at the same time without excessively nervousness, seeds are not nodded with heads, and in extreme situations, slowing is impressive more than the dynamics.
The main bus engine is elasticity. By promoting the motor before the turbine is triggered, the speed is dialing equally quickly with any transmission, but this dynamics is too linear. And even despite the presence of an overbust, briefly lifting pressure, the raisins are not. We accelerate, overtake, brake. And again we accelerate, brake. Unplaced.
Nevertheless, both on the track, and in the OPC sprint is able to overtake many more powerful cars, as I said, in the plus low weight, good brakes and elasticity. Only the city is not a track, here other requirements. That is why we love cars like Mazda MX-5. It would seem that only 160 hp, and the drive is much more. And all for the benefit of the consumer. Sigor fines and high fuel prices allow you to enjoy smaller money. Although accused Opel Corsa owner in waste unfair. In the mixed mode, gasoline consumption is comparable to a conventional 1.6-liter engine, the same 10-11 liters per 100 km, however, in traffic jams, the result can be easily doubled.
Anyway, laying out money for the version of OPC, the owner will not disappoin. In the car there is everything you need, and many options are available for surcharge: navigation, adaptive headlights, and mainly originality. Opel OPC on the roads are much more rare than Ford St or Mazda MPS. The more pleasant to leave a neighbor in the traffic light, a few seconds ago, the hanging on the small age, perhaps the appendage to the OPC nameplate is worth adding the inscription who you are to read the lectures to me!
The price of the basic Opel Corsa OPC starts from 766 thousand rubles. Guarantee two years without a mileage limit.

Yaroslav Marshallkin
 

A source: AUTO.Mail.Ru.