Opel Corsa

The Opel Corsa is a 3/5-door hatchback / 2/4-door Sedan (automobile) / saloon / 3-door van from Opel, built from 1982 to 1993, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.

The background

The Opel Corsa is a supermini car manufactured and marketed by Opel since 1982. The car is known as the Vauxhall Corsa in the United Kingdom. Before General Motors sold Opel and Vauxhall to PSA Group in 2017, the Corsa was also rebadged under the Chevrolet, Holden and Buick brands.

The Corsa was once the best-selling car in the world in 1998, recording 910,839 sales. At that time, the Corsa was assembled on four continents, marketed under five different marques and offered in five body styles. By 2007, over 18 million Corsas had been sold globally.

The engineering

Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 735 –. It shifts through a 4/5-speed manual. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2343 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Where it sits

Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Opel Kadett City / Vauxhall Chevette; assembly was at Zaragoza. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Nissan Micra, the Porsche 944, the Toyota Camry — show what else the money bought that year. Its Opel stablemates include the Opel Sintra and the Opel K-180.

What it costs now

There is no federal ownership record for the Opel Corsa — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.