It looks like Opel and its sister company from Britain, Vauxhall, will give the current, fourth-generation Corsa supermini that has been in production since 2006 an extension in life with a mild facelift.
GM's European division was likely led to the decision to update instead of replace the aging Corsa due to its own financial troubles as well as the tough economic environment in the Old Continent that has plagued sales in most countries.
On the outside, the visual tweaks are limited to the front end that appears to gain a newly styled front grille split by Opel's chromed logo, similar to the one featured on the new Adam premium city car.
The Adam also influenced the interior revisions with the updated Corsa sporting a newly designed center console with a more modern interface and from what we can tell, a new instrument panel.
We could see the facelifted Corsa as early as the Geneva auto show in March, but it's more likely to appear at the Frankfurt motor show later in the fall.
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8 Comments:
That new front will not help Opel. It's the years of making bad cars that's the problem. Seriously.... since the end of the nineties I haven't seen rust on cars. Except for Opels.
"... as the tough economic environment in the Old Continent that has plagued sales in most countries.".
Yes 'most' countries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20931602
Time to exit the EU, meethinks..
why did they waste that time making the Adam when they could have made a new corsa, it would have been much more efficient as its a more popular model! Such a bunch of dumb asses!
The current front-end isn't bad. Overall, the Corsa is still a nice car.
They're right to do something about the dashboard. However, it really, really needs some update at the back. At least the rear light clusters should be brought in line with the rest of the current lineup. And new doorhandles which are not as sharply squared as the current ones. Both rear and sides are still rooted way too much in Opel's and Vauxhall's old design language.
they're right to do something about the interior; we received a Corsa as a courtesy car when my bro's car was being fixed, and it was ghastly, cheap, tacky, creaky, and loaded with brittle scratchy plastics
Another FL? Oh, crap - it is the same problem like in twin brother Grande Punto. Those cars are just too old :/
I see no difference in the camouflaged part (in fact the lights look very simliar to a KIA Rio). Moreover, isn't it too soon since the last facelift? My opinion is that they should do something for the rear part as well, like a small redesign for the lights maybe?
The change in the interior is good though. It was way too old.
I agree that its the interior and rear end that need attention. The recently facelifted front end is fine, but they left the rear end unchanged that time too.
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