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Brand new Vauxhall Corsa - help! DPF!

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  • JustinR1979
    JustinR1979 Posts: 1,828 Forumite
    LMFTO. I was thinking similar.

    Mind you, a shonky old 200K A3 sounds much more believable as a runabout than a 15 grand Lexus.

    But the big question - is it allowed to overtake?



    Cubic capacity is 1986 so unfortunately not :(
  • Small car does not = small mileage. I bought a corsa because despite doing 600+ miles a week I do them on my owns with minimal luggage, so why buy a bigger car?! It doesn't make sense. I was toying with getting a Citroen DS3, but the Corsa was a better deal and an all over nicer driving feel. No way was I buying a petrol with the motorway miles I do (20,000 a year) - petrol costs would have bankrupted me. Still... Folks will have their preconceptions won't they?!

    So... Bringing things back to my original post :D

    Picked the car up... Was a sensor fault. Vauxhall covered the cost of sorting it out and it's fine. Took it on a long journey today and no problems. Excellent :-)
  • Richard53
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    Glad you got it sorted.
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  • Comtesse wrote: »
    but the Corsa was a better deal and an all over nicer driving feel.

    I'm sorry but I have driven the new Corsa as a rental and it was terrible. Felt like a cardboard box with NO driver feel whatsoever.
  • lulu_92
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    You suspect wrong. A small car with a small petrol engine is going to economical by its nature. There is very little justification for paying an inflated price for a diesel (which is a dearer fuel than petrol) when the amount of miles required to recoup any spending is inter-galaxitcal.

    I have a citroen c1 to do 350 miles a week and I only pay £30 a week for fuel, and that covers me half way into the following week!
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  • AdrianC
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    lulu_92 wrote: »
    I have a citroen c1 to do 350 miles a week and I only pay £30 a week for fuel, and that covers me half way into the following week!
    £20 for 350 miles, at £1.30/litre, would be 102mpg. Even if you used the full £30, that'd be 70mpg. The official combined economy figure is 65mpg for a 2012-2014 C1.
  • AdrianC wrote: »
    £20 for 350 miles, at £1.30/litre, would be 102mpg. Even if you used the full £30, that'd be 70mpg. The official combined economy figure is 65mpg for a 2012-2014 C1.

    It's possible to achieve 70mpg on the C1/Aygo/107 if you do 90% motorway driving at 55mph.

    Even my brothers A3 2.0 tdi can do 65mpg at 55mph.
  • I'm sorry but I have driven the new Corsa as a rental and it was terrible. Felt like a cardboard box with NO driver feel whatsoever.

    In your opinion. Good job we're not all the same, or we'd all be driving M3s and bullying our way around.
  • JustinR1979
    JustinR1979 Posts: 1,828 Forumite
    I'm sorry but I have driven the new Corsa as a rental and it was terrible. Felt like a cardboard box with NO driver feel whatsoever.



    I hope you didn't overtake anything.
  • iolanthe07
    iolanthe07 Posts: 5,493 Forumite
    motorway driving at 55mph.

    And a menace to lorry drivers. There is no excuse for cars to go this slowly on a clear motorway.
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