Opel Corsa A - the small mass sports car
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Summary
With some cars, one detail is enough to make them recognizable. On the Opel Corsa A, with which the Rüsselsheim-based company entered the market for modern small cars rather late in 1982, nothing was as striking as its flared fenders, which made it look powerful even with 45 hp. With the 100 hp GSi, however, the driving performance also matched the muscular appearance. This article tells the story of the Opel Corsa A and its sporty offshoots and shows it in current and historical images
This article contains the following chapters
- Wide cadets
- S-Car, go!
- New plant in Spain
- Three engines, four equipment lines
- Conversions and tuning
- Sport ex works
- Less small car-like
Estimated reading time: 10min
Preview (beginning of the article)
Opel was late to the party. At the beginning of the 1980s, the European small car market already seemed to be firmly in French and Italian hands. Ford and VW had also only ventured into this segment a few years earlier. But in Rüsselsheim they seemed to have completely missed the trend. The first plans for a small front-wheel drive Opel had been maturing there since the end of the 1960s. Apart from the Oldsmobile Toronado, General Motors had no experience with powered front wheels - and even less with small cars. It was clear from the outset that the concept with a longitudinal engine and longitudinally mounted transmission did not pose a problem in terms of space economy in a sweeping luxury coupé, but was rather unsuitable for a city runabout. A drive unit installed at right angles to the direction of travel was the method of choice if you wanted to fit as much car as possible into as little space as possible. The Mini had already proven this impressively. So instead of reinventing the wheel at great expense, the English prototype of the modern small car was chosen as the model and starting point for the first attempts. And so the Opel technicians procured a crashed Mini from the scrapyard, disposed of the body and began their analysis and experiments on the open chassis.
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