New Opel Corsa GSi Review - The GSi Is Back

May 31st, 2019

The legendary nameplate from Opel returns to South Africa. Ciro de Siena gets behind the wheel of the new Opel Corsa GSi.

This new little angry-looking red thing is the Opel Corsa GSi, and it marks the return of the GSi nameplate to South Africa.

South Africa has a unique history with those three letters. Thanks to the unruly Opel Superboss of the 80s, a car which was developed here and only sold in this country, the GSi moniker became associated with on-the-limit performance.

Given this history, this new Corsa has a huge weight of expectation on its shoulders. Ciro De Siena took it for a spin and found that...well, you'll have to watch to find out.

Ciro started his first car website at the age of 19 and promptly dented his first ever test car. Surprisingly he’s still at this motoring journalism thing 7 years later. Ciro is a contributor to Cars.co.za’s content portal. Catch him present OverdriveTV on SABC3’s Expresso Show every Friday morning.

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