Theres hardly any fobbing off with the 1.6T engine appearing in the Corsa. There was no way they would use the 2L T engine as this was used in the Astra VXR. The smaller 1.6 engine weighs less so will improve handling (which the Corsa VXR is rumured to be extremely good) and the fact its comes out as 190bhp as oposed to the 200bhp previously mentiond is so that it doesn't embarass the Astra VXR .

The 1.6 T engine will easily respond well to tuning and I know for a fact that there are development cars with 220bhp already and these have been accomplished with a simple re-map and nothing else.

Personally I think it should be an awesome piece of kit but the only downside with the VXR range (apart from the VXR220 and the Monaro) is they are in FWD cars which means that all that power thats pretty simply to get from Vauxhalls latest impressive engines can't really be put to great use on the road .