Corsa VXR at Nurburgring pics

[the vxr mothership]

in this weeks Autoexpress

Stu

[the vxr mothership]

and here

http://www.worldcarfans.com/spyphotos.cfm/spyphotoid/6060825.001/country/GCF/opel/spy-photos-opel-corsa-opc

[Catherine]

I do like the rear bumper on it.

There don't appear to be any front fog lights on it and the front grille isn't painted. Is that because it is pre-production?

[BO55 VXR]

Any idea what price are these going on the market at?

[the vxr mothership]

Catherine - yep thats the first off tooling for the shape/construct of the plastics both front and rear . On the rear you can see the diffuser is unfinshed and on the fron the fogs are missing.

Boss - well clio 197 is £15,995 and is the target vehicle ....

Stu

[Catherine]

I like the diffuser on the car, it is very striking.

[Sparky]

Love the front, and side views, but the rear slats just don't do it for me, but I am an old giiiiii... person!!. Its a very agressive looking small car from a mainstream manufacturer.

[NotNormal]

Needs bigger wheels I reckon :wink:

[Aussie]

will be having 17's and 18's option

[Catherine]

Is it 200 bhp do we know?

[dap]

Ive just returned from a wet and dry nurburgring, spent half a day on monday and half a day thrs watching Corsa OPC flat out in some areas, no lap times but a quick little motor, quite funny really watching Corsa being shaperoned around by big Vectra and then later Astra VXR, also spotted was a new Audi R8 thinggy , only did one lap then disapeared, also there was new M3 and some weird looking Opels with fat wings and trick suspension, Very interesting few days.

[AlexFi]

With a bigger set of wheels that is going to look way cool. Have said to wife that when it comes out that she'll be getting one, so it can sit next to the big brother on the drive. Fingers crossed it handles and goes as well as it looks.

Going by the TG review of the standard corsa this looks to have had a very good starting point so I can't wait to try one out.

[P_D]

Elsewhere on the site I have read it has a 0-60 time of 6 seconds? I cant understand how this a be true? It has to be 6.5 +

[static]

Sounds a bit too optimistic. I'd wait for the official figures.

[P_D]

I had it confirmed weeks ago that it wont be below 7.

[Aussie]

there is no official figures yet released

[AlliRR]

again if its to compete with the clio which is 0-60 in 6.9, top speed 134mph itll have to be mighty close to 7second 0-60 or its lost its performance appeal already.

[static]

I've seen some figures of the clio and according to one finnish mag in real life it's closer to 7.5 sec 0-62mph (the stated 0-62mph figure is 6.9s). The main reason to this is narrow power band.. peak torque is as high as 5500rpm which makes it a rev to the max type of engine. 210nm @ 5500rpm = 164hp. Also the fact that NA engines rarely give out more power than promised while turbo engines deliver a little more (usually 5-10%).

Now the meriva opc delivers 190hp @ 5900rpm (98RON, 95RON will give the promised 180hp) and has 276nm of torque as low as 2800prm. I don't know what the output of Corsa will be is but I doubt is less than meriva. This makes me to conclusion that although clio will have higher peak power (7hp advantage for a very short time) the corsa will have a lot stronger engine all round..

Meriva OPC measured data:
http://motor.terra.es/motor/pruebas/nuestros.cfm?id=MOT31185&id_version=17989

One thing worth of a notice is that the finnish mag tested 60-120km/h acceleration of clio which was 8.4sec in 3rd gear. Meriva goes the same gap in 7s (I've clocked mine 6.8s so I'd say 7s in real world is pretty accurate) which means that in everyday use even the meriva outperforms the new clio if you don't rev your socks out.. :roll:

edit: I'd also like to add that this is pure speculation based on information that's out at the moment. I hoped the clio to perform better in that test and in certain way It's still appealing to me, would definitely consider it if I was buying a small hot hatch. Anyway it's just one test so better wait once corsa comes out and more sites/mags test them both..

[MASONVXR]

Obviously confirmed wrong then :lol: Just slinks in below!