2011 Vauxhall Corsa reviews

Vauxhall Corsa Excite 2011

I have owned a Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 design for the last 5 years, which I bought on finance. I loved my car, it was nippy and drove well and suited me down to the ground. When the finance finished in March this year I decided to part-ex it for a new Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 Excite. This has been the worst decision of my life. I went to the dealers and they had a deal on 0% finance and a loyalty amount off of the cost of the new car. I was told that there was not a car for me to test drive, but that the one I was going to buy performed exactly the same as the one I was bringing in for part-ex. Having said this though I do not think a test driving it would have made any difference because I wouldn’t have taken it on the motorway or up a hill as I had just test driven a car for my son and we were taken a very short distance on the flat. The cars on this deal were also going very quickly so as I didn’t want to lose the deal I decided to buy the new car. What a big mistake that was since owning the car I have experienced lack of power up hills and on motorways, even to the point of being in a dangerous situation with a lorry! When going up steep hills, and I live on one, the car loses speed and you barely get up the hill at more than 35 mph and my foot is flat to the floor! It is dangerous, to drive when this happens and I am petrified of going anywhere near a hill or on the motorway, which is a big problem. I have been driving for 30 years and have driven many cars in this time and have never felt scared of driving a car! In fact I never let anyone else in my family drive as I enjoy doing it myself. I have returned the car to the dealership for them to test it out and their response is that there is nothing wrong with it and they have taken it out and had no problems on hills or the motorway. Even to the point of the service manager taking it out and saying that she got 66mph out of it up a hill and her foot was not even flat to the floor! I know that they are lying and have seen many reviews on here and on the internet about loss of power up hills and the unresponsive speeds on motorways. I am still in the process of fighting Vauxhall to admit that the car is underperforming.