When someone or something is very closely related to another someone or something, it does not necessarily follow that if the latter is hugely successful, the former will be too. Sometimes you will have very successful families which thrive on either their collective genius or their business or sporting acumen.
Oddly enough the same applies to cars. It also bankrupted legions of Ford dealers. But it came in the wake of the untrammelled success of four previous generations of Escort. You could suggest that a French-inspired re-branding of Opel into its bargain-basement marque was inevitable, given that those in the Rueil-Malmaison PSA HQ would be historically reluctant to give ground to anything German, but in fairness, they appear to have resisted the temptation to do any such thing.
At this point, it must be admitted that the electric Opel is not, in fact, as good as the Peugeot upon which is it based, lacking in important things like the quality of the material used to decorate the interior and the equipment which make the French car a stand-out in its class.
But having said that, it bears many of the other essential characteristics which make the e such an obvious class leader in the supermini segment of the electric revolution β i. After Opel was subsumed into the PSA empire in late , the company immediately started to build a product on French platforms and the new Corsa, which was very heartily received in these quarters, was the first of them. It was a swift and effective answer to any naysayers about the potential of the alliance.
Of course, the Corsa is now directly related to the Peugeot and that has to be regarded as a very good thing. Both have the same kW electric motor providing roughly bhp and 50kWh battery pack and β although the performance figures of both differ slightly β roughly the same range, which is the crucial thing with any electric, big or small. In the case of the Corsa, the range is km 3km shy of the sibling , top speed is kph and the kph dash is achieved in 8.
