Identical small hatchback challenge! Peugeot 208 vs Vauxhall Corsa - what's the difference?

[@richardwilton722]

The Corsa is made in Spain, in Saragossa. The UK is the only country where it’s badged as a Vauxhall. Everywhere else ( including the Irish Republic), it’s an Opel. Vauxhall’s supermini hasn’t been made in England since the Chevette finished production. To be fair, the 208 isn’t made in France, either. It’s built in Slovakia. Rather Spain or Slovakia than China, is what I say. The first MG3 was a rebadged Rover Steetwise, which was a crossover Rover 200. When MG went bust, it was all shipped off to China. Long live European car manufacturing. By the way, if you’ve never been to Saragossa, go there. It’s beautiful, especially for the Marian festival. Never seen so many people walking round a city holding a guitar! 😅

[@johncoldwell340]

Vauxhalls have shite peugeot engine doesn't even say vauxhall on the petrol tank but it does say peugeot, citroen, DS, car market gone to shit no new car are worth buying they all sh!+ everyone's in a battle to build the cheapest disposable cars before they can't any more

[@richardwilton722]

@@johncoldwell340 Surely during the General Motors days they would have had Opel marked on the parts? GM wouldn’t have been mad enough to order special parts for one country when the cars were Opels in the rest of the market. The last Vauxhall I had was a 1970’s Viva made when Opels and Vauxhalls were still different cars, but they were rebadged Opels from the 80s onwards. Even in the Republic of Ireland they’re right hand drive Opels.

[@johncoldwell340]

@@richardwilton722 what I am saying is the people that buy a corsa today are buying a peugeot and have know clue, it peugeot vs peugeot and them engine are complete sh!te

[@andrewwelsh4968]

All modern cars are a hybrid of bits of this and that, made here there and everywhere. They're shit. Not some, but all of them. Peugeot make comfy sets ? Wow, volvo make comfier seats and modern volvos are shit too. They're all designed to fail and cost a bomb in service and repair. It's all a con, designed to bleed you dry and they are now fitted with autonomous speed restrictions. So why waste your money !

[@localreviewking134]

The first MG3 was not a rebadged Rover Steetwise, they are not the same car. The MG3 was a totally different car.

[@andrewwelsh4968]

Can people please understand, Vauxhall do Not exist. Its badged purely to try and sell it in the UK.

[@rodrigovarela8551]

Pleeeaaaaseeee why can't they get it

[@andrewwelsh4968]

@@rodrigovarela8551 Social Programming!

[@johnbrereton5229]

Vauxhall does exist, though they have reduced their workforce from their former heyday. Their large factory in Ellsmere Port employes over 1000 workers and currently manufactures 4 different vehicles, both their own as well as Opel, Fiats, Citerons and Peugeot badged cars.

[@StephenRandall-x6s]

The title should say French or French? As regards "Vauxhall still operating in the UK remember when Peugeot closed the Coventry factory and Stellantis now are hinting about possibly closing plants here something to do with the government policies about electric/ ice target dates? So history suggests and it will be no surprise to me if they withdraw manufacturing in this country..

[@paulratnage2663]

208 is the better car on the inside with design of the interior. Main problem with both cars & Citroen c3 plus a couple other models from the same group, is a design fault cambelt issue to look out for on the pure tech 1.2, 3 pot engine. If buying one check the cambelt for wear/cracking & swelling even on low mileage & a few years old.

[@ChristopherNeilF]

Vauxhall hasn’t been a British car company since 1925, brought by General Motors. Vauxhall has since been rebadged German Opel cars. Now owned by PSA group who owns Peugeot and Citroen . Vauxhall and Peugeot might as well be the same car ..

[@TIMSANDYSURF]

I have driven both of these cars as we were looking to change my wife’s car. The corsa is a cracking little car and we were about to buy when we tried the Peugeot. What a great car this Pug is. We chose the Peugeot in 130 GT guise and it’s a little firecracker. Great quality and stylish interior (that outweighs the small disadvantage stupid screen). It’s got more youthful looks than the Corsa . With the GT 130 model you get a great handling set up and in sport mode is surprisingly swift. My car is an F Type R but it’s quite often that we chose to take the Pug on a trip as it’s fun without the hassle of parking and driving such a big and powerful car.

[@robtyman4281]

If I had to choose between the two - I'd go for the Peugeot. It just looks better, more stylish on the outside; and a classier interior - I like the Peugeot's dashboard more. But I imagine despite the two being virtually the same car - the Peugeot being the one that's the better one to drive.

[@jimmcintosh9045]

The Peugeot with its climate controls on the touch screen sounds rather fiddly and dangerous as had been mentioned that touchscreens can be distracting for drivers. If you can't use a mobile when driving why should it be OK to be fiddling and looking at a touchscreen?!

[@Ghanfort]

Being an owner of a Peugeot 2008 (which has the exact same interior & tech as 208) the climate controls on the touchscreen were an initial concern for me as well but luckily it has physical buttons to enable/disable the A/C, recycle cabin air & for rapid cooling. Therefore only the actual temperature needs to be set via the touchscreen and navigation to that is just done by another touch button on the panel. So TBH its not that big of an issue after all, unless if you constantly change your temperature settings.

[@MoragDrummond]

Maybe people don’t want to buy the top of the range in the 208 and not get key features without a lot of add on. Whereas the Corsa has them included. Hmmm.

[@volt8684]

Stella this own both so?

[@thomash2806]

The Opel Corsa is indeed made in Spain by Stellantis, a Franco-Italo-American company. The Vauxhall brand was last British-owned 99 years ago in 1925. Saying its from Luton really would be quite the pork pie. I personally prefer the German-style seriousness of the Opel interior. I’m not on board with the Peugeot i-Cockpit at all.

[@tonywilcock6334]

Wet belt?

[@johncoldwell340]

@@tonywilcock6334 yep both same shit engine

[@Don_Gorgan]

The steering wheel is an issue, It blocks the view of the instruments no matter how I adjust it..and others have the same problem too.

[@johntaylor5968]

3.20 any one who needs “expensive feeling materials” is a real sad nerd, what a way to assess a car, it’s hilarious. 😂😂😂

[@stuartsinclair6269]

I don’t understand Vauxhall is owned by the French it’s not GM no more

If you’re only talking about two models, surely the thumbnail should ask which is better?

[@vp272]

Why does Rebecca have beef with Luton airport?

[@motorpoint]

Who doesn't?! -Tim

[@vp272]

@@motorpoint 😂😂

[@chasevans7171]

Last week I fitted a new wet belt kit to a 4 year old 42,000 mile 208 which came in with the oil pressure warning light on. Sump strainer had about a tablespoon full of belt particle solids blocking it. Luckily this time, the crank bearings were still ok and hadn't welded themselves to the journals. Avoid either of these cars with a very long barge pole. They both use the same petrol engines. Throwaway junk.

[@MrSparklespring]

@chasevans7171 They changed the belt and the light hybrid version has a channel now. Still very unfortunate for the owners.

[@stevenmoran4060]

Vauxhall not British and all their models are to be honest the budget version of the Peugeot, and worse seem to have included the harder German spec seating which is far worse than the usual French comfy seating.

[@davewells3420]

If your tall don't go near a 208, it's impossible to get behind the wheel

[@williamegler8771]

You mean French and German owned by the French. Vauxhall is just a marketing division of Opel and hasn't designed a vehicle independently of Opel since the original Viva.

[@motorpoint]

That wouldn't really fit in the thumbnail though ;) - Tim

[@sheyone9075]

Compare these two with new MG3

[@robtyman4281]

Well, personally I wouldn't buy a Chinese car on principle. MG are now wholly a Chinese car company. The British MG company is dead.....the Chinese were somehow allowed to buy the company.....and ressurect the MG name. Not sure how they got away with this.....but anyway. I would prefer to compare the Vauxhall Corsa and the Peugeot 208, to the Renault Clio.

[@DontPanicDear]

I know it’s been a while now, but I’m just gonna say it…. I’m not okay, with the whole Stellantis thing 😮 I just can’t get onboard with Dodge, Vauxhall, Fiat , Maserati, Citroen and other being the same company 😂

[@davidmarshall5596]

Totally 100% agree 👍 Vauxhall is no longer Vauxhall,, Totally lost its identity & now their vehicles are 'French clones'' I'm afraid 😨 🎉

[@jimmacgregor4122]

Agree with Rebecca - but for a different reason - that Peugeot interior is awful, with a driving position that just doesn't work for shorter people - and they could both do with more steering weight - that's what made the Fiesta so good.

[@domepugliese]

I'm 165cm so pretty short and find the position in the peugeot very comfortable tbh

[@tiadaid]

I wonder what’s the point on making two versions of the same car?

[@motorpoint]

I'm going to go with massive corporate greed and profit ;) - Tim

[@Zemlja_je_ravna]

Majority of customers don't know that.

[@simonhodgetts6530]

I’d go for the Corsa - the Peugeot’s interior is ghastly, and I have never understood the ergonomic disaster they’ve created with the silly small steering wheel / oddly placed instruments concept. Funny how no other car manufacturer has adopted it…….maybe because it doesn’t work!

[@SeanehKelleh]

German* or French. It's an Opel.

[@volt8684]

Dutch

[@rasherbasher8203]

Apart from the looks there's literally no difference between these two cars.😂

[@no-oneman.4140]

Between the two I'd buy a Jazz.

[@alcorfield1157]

Corsa is built in Spain so apart from the badge not British at all

[@andrewsmyth6027]

❤❤❤❤❤love this lady telling g the truth that most cars are owned and made by the same company,,, if the advertising wasn't so expensive and the taxes and share holdings lower cars in europe would be 3 times lower... a bit like coca cola cost about 1 penny to produce and put on the shelf , per litre, one third of a litre of cola £1 . Profit per litre about £2.99 including tax... the rest of the programme about how a car performs rubbish.

[@tlgkcg]

❤opel corsa❤

[@MoragDrummond]

It’s Vauxhall here.

[@tlgkcg]

@@MoragDrummond no matter, same

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Identical cross company cars? Thats a breach of patent. There is no way citreon and vauxhall are identical. So the title is a lie!

[@colingaskell9571]

Wet belt no good

[@markbate5583]

Yes quite strange to call it British especially as reviewer is knows cars. Perhaps marketing?

[@dennischannon8313]

Load of rubbish, PSA purchased Vauxhall so there both French owned. all new model Vauxhall baged cars are Peugeot soon none will be produced in the uk

[@argi0774]

What? British? That's an Opel

[@explorelondon3695]

They are both owned by Peugeot 😂

[@KevinP-y7k]

Either or... Just trade them in before the warranty runs out 🙄

[@marioclara8357]

Opel and Peugeot are french.

[@simon8864]

There's nothing British about the vauxhall apart from the name. The Peugeot, like all French cars will suffer from electrical problems. Starter motor, alternator, electric windows of fuel gauge, something WILL go wrong sooner or later. It always does......its French!

[@garnray8568]

ridiculous comment

[@simon8864]

@@garnray8568 Yes, it is ridiculous but everyone I know that has had a French car had electrical problems. And I'm not anti French. Jags are not any better!

[@garnray8568]

@@simon8864 I own a Peugeot 3008. Best car I have ever had. Been a BMW guy all my life (I'm 51). Bought that Peugeot in 2023. Best car. ON EARTH. No problem. Once you go French, you don't go back.

[@CarlosGonzalez-tg1og]

The best is toyota🎉

[@damiendye6623]

Err there both stalantis cars so they are the same under the trim, and pretending they are British and French just shows your clueless about how they are made

[@garywinterbottom6073]

Both are poor cars I wouldn't have either given 😅

[@manoman0]

The Peugeot is an optical mess.

[@garnray8568]

Frankly, it's a ridiculous video. First, the Vauxhall is nothing British. Second, the Peugeot is just a better car. The conclusion "Britain, you got it right, I'll take the Vauxhall" is just so grotesque.

[@michaelkilbride2927]

Both have a crap wet belt engine timing belt in oil they are junk google puretec engine problems

[@sleish85]

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't citroen Peugeot buy out general motors around 2016 Who make vauxhall? So vauxhall now is a Peugeot/citroen, most of the time you can see buy the same parts they share like the wing mirrors ect. 😂they both 💩

[@hongfeiwang6929]

Anyway, I own a Peugeot 2008. haha

[@jrs9264]

Nice to see and hear from you luv, but nobody in the states, across the pond, would buy a french car. they were run out of here 50 years ago due to lousy quality. 💯🤔🧐🤨

[@volt8684]

Because yank cars as so great😂😂

[@MrSparklespring]

Quality has gone up though since the nineties...

[@deanskidmore4495]

peugeot are shit now thats why

[@Tyrekickingwetdreamer]

Didn't age well

[@RockLeeKait]

Why not?