Chevrolet Corsica

Registered in 1996.

Chevrolet Corsica
Photo: Kersten Watson · Public domain · source

About this model

The Chevrolet Corsica is a front-wheel drive compact car that was produced by Chevrolet from 1987 until 1996. The Corsica was built upon the L-body platform. It shared the L-body with the 2-door Beretta, and the rebadged revival of the Pontiac Tempest which was essentially the same car, but was only sold in Canada and Middle East. The Corsica came in two styles and four trims. Sold initially only as a 4-door sedan, it was also available as a 5-door hatchback from model years 1989 until 1991. Corsicas were built alongside the Beretta by both the Wilmington Assembly in Delaware and Linden Assembly in New Jersey.

From the Wikipedia article Chevrolet Corsica, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Crash test

Stability controlNo
Forward collision warningNo
Lane departure warningNo

Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.

Specification

YearMeasured
19961245 kg · 2630 mm wheelbase · 11.2 L/100km (EPA) · 13.1 L/100km city · 8.7 motorway · Sedan, 4-door

What the maker told its dealers

Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.

Chevrolet filed 36 bulletins about the 1996 Corsica.

28 more.

Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.