Used Vauxhall Corsas for sale have dominated a compilation of used car data showing instances of being written off, stolen or having outstanding finance.
Figures from mycarcheck.com show that serious warnings including write-off, finance and being stolen have risen again, to 30.8% of all checks it carried out in the first six months of 2017. This follows an increase from 25.6% in 2015 to 28.5% in 2016.
The Citroën C1 VTR was at the highest risk of being a write-off according to mycarcheck’s 100 most-searched models at 50.9%, with two examples of the Corsa (SXi and Limited Edition) in second and third places respectively on 49.1% and 48.7%. Elsewhere, the Corsa SXi was at the highest risk for having outstanding finance owing (29.1%), followed by the Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE on 28.6% and the Corsa SE on 26.4%.
At the highest risk of being stolen was the Ford Fiesta Titanium (10.8%), followed by the Corsa VXR (9.3%) and Ford Focus RS (7.1%)
Mark Bailey, head of mycarcheck.com parent company CDL Vehicle Information Systems, said: “These figures show the risks associated with the UK’s most popular used vehicles and why it is so important to check before you buy. Given its unwanted appearances at the top of our write-off, finance and stolen charts, second-hand Corsa buyers in particular need to know what they’re getting into.”
CDL performs more than a million look-ups a day for companies including AutoExpress, CompareTheMarket, Go-Compare, Moneysupermarket, Swiftcover and Tesco.
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