There are changes to the suspension and steering. These will be welcome having just hopped out of a Corsa. Let’s hope they are sharper without the vagueness that – while easy to drive – tends to afflict the current Vauxhall supermini.
But what I really want to do is drive this new 1.0-litre, three-cylinder ECOTEC Direct Injection Turbo engine that will sitting under the new Vauxhall Corsa engine.
I’m a big fan of three-cylinder engines. They sound great and offer plenty of pulling power. Vauxhall promises this three-cylinder unit to be the smoothest on the market thanks to the inclusion of a balancer shaft.
The only one on the market with such a configuration, it will be intriguing to see if it’s as good, if not better, than Ford’s brilliant 1.0T EcoBoost unit in the current Ford Fiesta.
