VAUXHALL TO LAUNCH CORSA GSE – A FULLY ELECTRIC, HIGH-PERFORMANCE VERSION OF BRITAIN’S BEST-SELLING SMALL CAR

• Vauxhall expands high-performance GSE range with announcement of Corsa GSE
• Corsa GSE follows release of Mokka GSE, Vauxhall’s fastest production electric vehicle
• UK’s best-selling small car to combine practicality and GSE performance
• Builds on technical knowledge gained from Mokka GSE Rally, as Vauxhall returns to motorsport in the ADAC GSE Rally Cup - the world’s first electric one-make European rally championship
• Latest in long Vauxhall lineage of hot hatches including Corsa GSi and Corsa VXR
• Corsa GSE set to be available to order later his year

Vauxhall has announced it will be launching the new Corsa GSE – a high-performance, top-of-the-range version of Britain’s best-selling small car, bringing motorsport-inspired excitement to the everyday drive.

Following the successful release of Mokka GSE, Vauxhall is expanding its all-electric GSE performance range with the Corsa GSE, which will be available to order later this year.

As with Mokka GSE, the fastest electric vehicle Vauxhall has ever made, Corsa GSE will be based on the current serial production generation and will build on the technical expertise and engineering DNA of its Mokka GSE Rally motorsport counterpart. 

Eurig Druce, Vauxhall Managing Director & Stellantis UK Group Managing Director, said: “The GSE badge has already proven a great success with the Mokka GSE - now Vauxhall is bringing that electrifying high-performance to Corsa. The Corsa GSE will combine small and agile practicality with thrilling, pure electric, motorsport-inspired power and dynamics.  Vauxhall has a proud heritage of hot hatches, and we’re excited to now offer customers those same thrills but combined with the electrifying performance and zero emissions in use of these new GSE models.”

Consistently ranked the UK’s top-selling small car, the Vauxhall Corsa GSE is set to become the next in line to an impressive pedigree of Vauxhall hot hatches that includes the likes of the Nova GTE, Nova GSi, Corsa GSi, and Corsa VXR.

In 1993, the first Vauxhall Corsa was launched in Britain, offering the perfect everyday practical car. It was the GSi derivative where the Corsa found fame as a ‘pocket rocket’. Powered by a 16-valve, double-overhead cam 1.6-litre petrol engine producing 105bhp at 6,000rpm, the GSi would sprint to 60mph in 9.2 seconds, and on to a 121mph top speed. 

In 2023, Vauxhall introduced its new GSE (Grand Sport Electric) performance sub-brand, with plug-in hybrid versions of the Astra, Astra Sports Tourer, and Grandland. Now fully electric, with the Mokka GSE, the first of the new era of high-performance models, the Corsa GSE will be inspired by the same electric rally engineering roots that have made Mokka GSE a success.

The ADAC GSE Rally Cup – the world’s first electric one-make European rally championship – has proven the excitement and robust performance of electric motorsport since it began in 2021. Vauxhall will be returning to motorsport for the 2026 season, where it will field a full works entry with the all-electric Mokka GSE Rally driven by talented young British driver, Ioan Lloyd.

Further information on the new Corsa GSE will be announced in due course.

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ABOUT VAUXHALL MOTORS

Vauxhall Motors started making cars in the UK in 1903. Today, as the oldest and most familiar of Britain’s automotive manufacturers, its philosophy is to build vehicles that are relevant to all and offer design, high levels of equipment and technology, and electrification at an attainable level. Vauxhall is one of few automotive brands to produce electric vehicles in Britain at its manufacturing plant in Ellesmere Port – the UK’s first electric-only manufacturing plant where the Combo Electric van is made.  Vauxhall’s Electric Streets of Britain campaign raises the profile of the need for more on-street electric vehicle charging so that everyone can benefit from the switch to electric.  Find out more at www.electricstreets.co.uk 

Vauxhall is part of Stellantis NV, a global leader created for the new era of sustainable mobility as a result of the merger between Groupe PSA and FCA Group in January 2021. Vauxhall is a leader in electrification – as of 2021, it was one of the first manufacturers to offer fully electric versions of all its vans. Since the end of 2024, Vauxhall has offered a fully electric version of every model in its car and van line-up. Info: www.vauxhall.co.uk