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CORSA CLIENTI

CLASS: SUPERMINI // CAR: VAUXHALL CORSA // TASK: LEARNING TO DRIVE

Britain’s bestselling car. Is also the car that teaches Britain to drive. This is not a coincidence. Plenty of learners go on to buy a Corsa. They want transport and here’s a small, affordable, easy car that’s already familiar to them. Tick, tick, tick. These people are not like you and I. But they are the majority. And the majority do not buy ‘good’ or ‘interesting’, they buy ‘ease’ and ‘value’.

Vauxhall supplies thousands of cars to driving schools every year. I suspect it’s a profitable enterprise. But how easy is a new Corsa to learn in? I’ve been asking myself questions like this a lot recently since I have a learner of my own

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