Booked myself a test drive..

-westy- · 6 Jun 2007 at 01:03

..of a Corsa VXR on thursday.

I had a poke around one while my parents were looking at cars, so I thought I'd give one a try. Just from sitting in it, it felt a LOT different to my 205, purely from a size point of view, its massive!

Anyone driven one? What should I expect?

thedazman67 · 6 Jun 2007 at 01:23

If its anything like the Vectra VXR then expect a lot of understeer. Unless this time Vauxhall have tweaked the chassis and supension rather than leave it alone.

Gaygle · 6 Jun 2007 at 01:26

The Corsa VXR is meant to be fantasic, the best of the VXR range! They say that Vauxhall have got it spot on this time.

Raymond Lin · 6 Jun 2007 at 01:55

It's still a Vaushall thou...I'd be inclined to spent my money on a Honda Civic Type-R.

Berger · 6 Jun 2007 at 02:02

Raymond Lin said:
It's still a Vaushall thou...I'd be inclined to spent my money on a Honda Civic Type-R.

Because Honda is a better badge than Vauxhall!

Suposed to be a decent car, Evo thought it wasnt bad anyway!

I wouldnt mind driving a load of hot hatches but im afraid of dealers and dont think would get used to the car with just a short test drive, probably spend all my time trying to get some feel from the pedals and used to brakes which bite!

Chris1712 · 6 Jun 2007 at 02:17

thedazman67 said:
If its anything like the Vectra VXR then expect a lot of understeer. Unless this time Vauxhall have tweaked the chassis and supension rather than leave it alone.

Vectra VXR was redone after the Top Gear episode and apparently now is a real contender, seem to remember reading article somewhere of it around nurburgring keeping with an evo and a 330 quite happily?

EDIT: here

Expect the corsa vxr to be pretty good tbh, astra vxr would still be my choice but i've lots of good things about the corsa. If memory serves me, Fox approved them on here not long ago!?

Raymond Lin · 6 Jun 2007 at 02:46

Berger said:
Because Honda is a better badge than Vauxhall!

Suposed to be a decent car, Evo thought it wasnt bad anyway!

I wouldnt mind driving a load of hot hatches but im afraid of dealers and dont think would get used to the car with just a short test drive, probably spend all my time trying to get some feel from the pedals and used to brakes which bite!

May be a little, but depreciation and resale value of a Honda is going to be higher never the less.

There is no harm to a test drive thou, it's your money but this is just my opinion.

PardonTheWait · 6 Jun 2007 at 03:00

Berger said:
Because Honda is a better badge than Vauxhall!

Honda make a v-twin lawnmower, so on that front, yes, it is a better badge

Honda are a great firm!

BUT

The new civics look like spaceships, and also look the same from the back as they do from the front, so they lose on that front

Lopéz · 6 Jun 2007 at 06:44

Berger said:
Because Honda is a better badge than Vauxhall!

I think (hope) he's inferring that Honda build much better quality cars than Vauxhall, not that Honda is seen as a more prestige marque. And I'd definitely agree with him.

-westy- · 6 Jun 2007 at 10:10

Raymond Lin said:
May be a little, but depreciation and resale value of a Honda is going to be higher never the less.

There is no harm to a test drive thou, it's your money but this is just my opinion.

I'm not spending any money, its purely to satisfy my need to know more about cars

Columbo · 6 Jun 2007 at 10:14

Raymond Lin said:
It's still a Vaushall thou...I'd be inclined to spent my money on a Honda Civic Type-R.

OMFG..!! Have you even passed your test or driven before? Honda? Civic? Really?

[TW]Fox · 6 Jun 2007 at 10:18

-westy- said:
I'm not spending any money, its purely to satisfy my need to know more about cars

Great fun isn't it

It's a bit of a waste of the salesmans time but hey, increases your knowledge about cars and its great fun. I took an Audi A4 3.0 Cab out last month

-westy- · 6 Jun 2007 at 10:25

[TW]Fox said:
Great fun isn't it It's a bit of a waste of the salesmans time but hey, increases your knowledge about cars and its great fun. I took an Audi A4 3.0 Cab out last month

Yep

Best mate works for Renault, So i've driven quite a few Clio 172/182's now too

djbenjo · 6 Jun 2007 at 13:03

ManCuBuS said:
OMFG..!! Have you even passed your test or driven before? Honda? Civic? Really?

Shadez · 6 Jun 2007 at 13:19

ManCuBuS said:
OMFG..!! Have you even passed your test or driven before? Honda? Civic? Really?

Honda > Vaushall

ive had 2 Vaushall's and 2 Honda's and the Honda's win hands down

Sirrel Squirrel · 6 Jun 2007 at 13:32

I'll be test driving the entire range of VXRs at the track day next month, 3 hours of track time

Jay · 6 Jun 2007 at 17:51

Everytime i want to take a test drive, they insist on comming with me, it does my swede in!