First buy in 8 years, advice if possible (omg he owns a corsa!)

The Corsa D is heavier than your current Corsa so it'll feel slower.

The handling is also worse than previous Corsa's and the Corsa C wasn't exactly great, it had lots of body roll.

www.corsa-d.co.uk - check this forum out. It's a big forum with lots of members so you'll find any information your looking for. Although there probably a bit bias!

If it's what you want, a brand new Corsa for 5k is an excellent price. Look at second hand ones, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a three year old Corsa for 5k.
 
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Get that Corsa and then sell it straight away making a nice profit.

Then spend more on a better car if you want to :)
 
i am not sure if i'll like the idea of buying the corsa for £5k then sell it straight away. i reckon most buyers will wondering why 1 week old 200miles corsa is up for sale from private seller
 
He could trade it in straight away and get more than £5K.

To be honest I very much doubt Vauxhall would let him make use of 3 levels of discount in the first place.
 
Wardie said:
To be honest I very much doubt Vauxhall would let him make use of 3 levels of discount in the first place.
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The scrappage scheme £3k and the GM card points can certainly be stacked as my Uncle did this last year so that's £4k off, minimum. I am dubious of the extra 10% family discount but i've contacted Vauxhall to clarify the matter.
 
Streeteh said:
The scrappage scheme £3k and the GM card points can certainly be stacked as my Uncle did this last year so that's £4k off, minimum. I am dubious of the extra 10% family discount but i've contacted Vauxhall to clarify the matter.
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Just asked a friend of mine who is a Vxl salesman, he seems to think that you should be able to use all those deals together. Why not go and try it? Those who don't ask, don't get.
 
I'd get the Corsa regardless of if I liked it or not BUT

You don't seem like the person that drives a car to drive a car (ie have fun while driving etc). You seem like the type that 99% of the population are, a car is a tool to get to get from A to B and not much else.

A Cosa will drive just like every other modern small car. It will go from A-B-C no problems and will suit your needs fine.

The corsa will be in the short term (less than 3 years):

Much cheaper to run so you can save more for your new flat. (road tax, insurance, fuel, repairs)
The Corsa will have a 3 year parts and labour warranty.
The Corsa will be the spec and colour you want.
The corsa will be worth more than 5k after keeping it for 3 years, a second hand car much less.


In the long term the Corsa will be more desirable, and cheaper and easy to sell if you keep it in good condition and clean.

A second hand car will be at the end of the day, a second hand car it will have wear and tear.
It will cost you more in the short term.
Short or no warranty.

At the end of the day buying second hand is a much bigger risk which nobody seems to have mentioned yet. If you don't like the new Corsa after 3 months you can sell it for 9k and get something else. But you've driven around and old one for so long its likely that youll like it and just keep it and for 5k its a steal.
 
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Settleddown said:
Well Corsa and Fiesta, nothing in it.
New Astra and Focus, the Astra is better.
The Insignia and Mondeo the Insignia is better.

The above is my own take from car reviews so my own opinion.

To say Ford is much better is wrong. They are on a level playing field now.
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:p have you driven the above?
 
Surely there's got to be a clause somewhere that stops you from just selling it on for a profit? I seem to remember a similar scheme where you have to hold on to the car for at least 1 year, but could be wrong.

Dave
 
DaveyD said:
Surely there's got to be a clause somewhere that stops you from just selling it on for a profit? I seem to remember a similar scheme where you have to hold on to the car for at least 1 year, but could be wrong.

Dave
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I think it is the car that you intend to trade in for scrappage that you have to have owned for 12 months.
 
Take the Corsa for a very long test drive, at least 24hrs if possible, I learnt to drive in an '07 Corsa and hated the seats, neither comfortable nor supportive (Even compared to my mk1 Punto that I had at the time, at least those seats were comfortable), but maybe that's just me?


There were no clauses about selling on immediately for the scrappage scheme, I know that, so there might not be for this, better check first though
 
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Take the Corsa for a very long test drive, at least 24hrs if possible, I learnt to drive in an '07 Corsa and hated the seats, neither comfortable nor supportive (Even compared to my mk1 Punto that I had at the time, at least those seats were comfortable), but maybe that's just me?


There were no clauses about selling on immediately for the scrappage scheme, I know that, so there might not be for this, better check first though
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I never had a problem with learning to drive in the first corsa to be honest.
I used to drive a combo van when I first started delivering, and didnt have much of a problem with the platform then either.

I think people make to much fuss over these things
 
Buy the Corsa, drive it for a few weeks if you like it keep it, if you don't sell it for £8k and buy a £3k FIesta 1.25, in effect swapping your old Corsa for a much newer better Fiesta for free!
 
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:p have you driven the above?
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I have.

Fiesta is a better car than the Corsa but not by a huge margin.

The new Astra is miles ahead of the old Focus IMO in every way, except, as Fox says the way it "feels".

I wasn't very impressed with the Insignia I drove, so comparing that, I'd say the Mondeo is better, but I'm assured the one I drove is a bad one.

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Get a used Focus 1.8. No point getting another small, slow car?
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The newer Corsa is as big as, if not bigger than the old Focus, and not much smaller than the new one.
 
MikeHiow said:
The new Astra is miles ahead of the old Focus IMO in every way, except, as Fox says the way it "feels".
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Miles ahead?

Autocar said:
The Astra has spent a sizeable amount of the past decade in an unenviable ‘best of the rest’ position behind the Golf and Focus. But with this smart new shape and high-quality cabin, it looked like this sixth-generation version would be the one to put the Astra on at least an even footing with those rivals.

And if the car worked as well as it looked, that is where it would now be. But while there are no great deficiencies in the way it drives, there are too few glimmers of the kind of inspiration that makes the Golf and Focus, in their different ways, so outstanding.

So we will give the Astra a hearty welcome and point out that if you’re interested in a car’s static rather than dynamic qualities, it makes a strong case for itself. But for enthusiasts like us, who will always care more about what a car does than how it looks, the Astra’s role as eternal class bridesmaid looks set to continue.
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Perhaps a more 'What Car' approach, they tend to focus on the boring practicalities of car ownership..

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The classy, spacious cabin is a real highlight, but the Astra falls short of the best small family hatchbacks in too many other areas.
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So, another middle of the road middle of the class hatch from Vauxhall.
 
A friend has a new Astra (dont know what spec) as a couresy car at the moment, lets just say it feels unsettled on the road. The brakes are awful and it just doesnt seem to want to drive smoothly, very twitchy thing even though it was dry and a 40mph zone. Dont know if it was specific to this car as it may have been beaten up a bit being a courtesy (yeah thanks!) car but I had no confidence driving it.
 
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