Chevrolet
The Chevrolet Corsica (named after Corsica, France) is a front-wheel drive compact car that was produced by Chevrolet from 1987 until 1996. The Corsica was built upon the L-body platform. It shared the L-body with the 2-door Beretta, and the rebadged revival of the Pontiac Tempest which was essentially the same car, but was only sold in Canada and Middle East.
The Corsica came in two styles and four trims. Sold initially only as a 4-door sedan, it was also available as a 5-door hatchback from model years 1989 until 1991. Corsicas were built alongside the Beretta by both the Wilmington Assembly in Delaware and Linden Assembly in New Jersey.
From the Wikipedia article Chevrolet Corsica, CC BY-SA.
Among the 277 Chevrolet entries in the MotorJury library, the Chevrolet Corsica holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1987. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Chevrolet Corsica properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ferrari Ferrari F40, the Jeep Jeep Wrangler, the Mazda Mazda MX-5 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Chevrolet Corsica reads like this: the record lists its engine as 2.0 L General Motors 122 engine#LL8 / LL8 Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.2 L General Motors 122 engine#LM3 / LM3/General Motors 122 engine#LN2 / LN2 I4 / 2.8 L Genera; drive goes through 3-speed 3T40 automatic / 4-speed 4T40-E automatic / 4-speed 4T60-E automatic / 5-speed manual; the layout is Transverse front-engine, front-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Chevrolet's own catalogue the Chevrolet Corsica sits alongside the Chevrolet Adra, the Chevrolet C-10, the Chevrolet Camaro (2015), the Chevrolet Corsa. The record names the Chevrolet Citation as its predecessor and the Chevrolet Malibu as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Irv Rybicki (1983). Assembly is recorded at United States: Wilmington, Delaware / United States: Linden, New Jersey.
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