
The Corsa is a small Automobile or supermini car produced by General Motors in Europe. The Corsa is sold under a large range of brand names in different countries: *United Kingdom: Vauxhall Motors Corsa *Continental Europe: Opel Corsa *Latin America: Chevrolet Corsa (Chevrolet Classic since 2005) *Middle East: Chevrolet Barina *Australasia: Holden Barina *China: Buick Sail (until 2005) *Japan: Opel Vita (Toyota already had a model using the Corsa name) It is not sold in the United States or Canada. The Corsa has been built at GM's plant in Zaragoza in Spain, and is also produced in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, India, and China. ==Opel Corsa A== The front wheel drive Corsa was first launched in 1983 to replace the Vauxhall Chevette. Built in Zaragoza, Spain, the first Corsas were three-door hatchback and two-door saloon models, with four-door and five-door versions arriving two years later. It was known in the UK as the Vauxhall Nova (as it was considered that Corsa sounded too much like ''coarser''), and became best known as a popular choice of car driving schools. Although many young British 'boy racer' and 'Chavs' customised or 'souped up' their models (and continue to do so to this day), the Nova was usually seen as dull. Power came from 1.0 L, 1.2 L, 1.3 L, and 1.4 L petrol engines which were short on performance but strong on economy. The engines and most of the mechanical components were derived from those used in the General Motors Astra. A 1.6 L fuel injected engine with 100 hp (74 kW) and capable of 186 km/h (115 mph) was later added to the Corsa/Nova range, giving better performance and being badged as a ''GSi'' or ''GTE''. But the car's handling was still criticized as uninvolving and the styling called dull inside and out. There were also reports of a significant number of roll-over accidents not involving any other vehicles, that called the handling into question. The design was freshened for 1990, but the car was showing its age against strong competition from cars like the Renault Clio and Peugeot 106. ==Opel Corsa B== In 1993, a curvier, more attractive, Corsa was unveiled, and in the UK Vauxhall dropped the Nova name, the car now being known as the Corsa in the UK. The next year, it was launched by Holden in Australia, as the Barina replacing a version of the Suzuki Swift sold under that name. This proved a success, and was the first Spanish-built car to be sold in significant volumes on the Australian market. Power came from 1.2 L, 1.4 L and 1.6 L GM Family 1 engine petrol engines, as well as an economical 1.5 L turbo-diesel. Unlike the previous model, there was no sedan version, but one was designed in Brazil for the Latin American market, as sedans were much preferred to hatchbacks. This was also introduced in South Africa and India. A station wagon, panel van and pick-up truck were also introduced. The wagon version was sold in some European markets, including Italy, badged as an Opel. A 1.0 L straight-3 GM Family 0 engine economy version was launched in 1996, and a Lotus Cars-tuned suspension was added as well as an exterior refresh. Strong competition came from new models like the Peugeot 206, Fiat Punto and Skoda Fabia. A German designed Cabriolet version was offered in this model, based on the 3-door hatchback. The cabriolet featured a cloth roof, and a padded roll cage. The sedan model is still built and sold in Brazil as the Chevrolet Corsa Classic, renamed to Chevrolet Classic for the 2005 model year. A budget version, the Chevrolet Celta, has bodywork resembling the third-generation Corsa but in fact rests on second-generation underpinnings. The sedan version was produced in China by GM Shanghai as Buick Sail until 2005. In India, the hatchback and wagon versions are still sold, as the Corsa Sail and Corsa Swing respectively. ==Opel Corsa C== The current model Corsa was introduced in 2001, with distinctive styling for the three-door and five-door hatchbacks. General Motors dubbed the new chassis GM Gamma platform and intended to use it in a number of other models. A sedan version is also offered in Latin America, South Africa and the Middle East. The Brazilian version of the Corsa sold in those countries has a distinctive front end, more conservative than its European counterpart. Brazil also offers a four-door and pick-up truck version of the Corsa (the latter named Chevrolet Montana), which is exported in Completely Knocked-Down (CKD) kit to South Africa for local assembly. The 1.0 L, 1.2 L and 1.4 L petrol engines were carry overs from the previous range, but the 1.7 L ''Circle L engine'' turbo-Diesel and 1.8 L petrol engines were both new. In 2002, the Corsa chassis spawned a mini-MPV called the Meriva, development of which began under Opel in Rüsselsheim but finished by Chevrolet do Brasil. ==Future== A new version of the GM Gamma platform is currently being codeveloped by Fiat and Opel. It will be shared across 2005 Fiat Punto, 2006 Opel Corsa and future versions of Lancia Ypsilon and Fiat Idea. A variant of it may be employed by GM Daewoo for use in its sub-compact cars.
OPEL CORSA MK1 (1983-1993) In early 1983, Opel launched an all-new front-wheel drive supermini - the Corsa. It was built at Zaragoza in Spain and sold in Britain as the Vauxhall Nova. Power came from 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6 petrol engines, which were mostly noisy and unrefined. Reliability too was far from perfect. But the Corsa's key selling points were its competitive starting price and low running costs. It was aimed squarely at the Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen Polo and Austin Metro. The launch of the Nova saw the Chevette disappear from the Vauxhall range. Bodystyles were hatchback (three and five doors) and saloon (two and four doors). The most popular bodystyle was three-door hatchback. In the autumn of 1990, the Corsa was facelifted with a new front end and improved interior, but the age of the design was starting to show in the face of more modern rivals like the Peugeot 106 and Renault Clio. The last of the first generation Corsas rolled off the production line early in 1993, and the Nova name was shelved on British Vauxhalls. Even now, more than a decade after the end of production, the Vauxhall Nova is proving popular with 'boy racers' because of its low insurance premiums and paltry value. OPEL CORSA MK2 (1993-2000) The second generation Opel Corsa was launched in early 1993, a completely new car - this time using the Corsa badge on Vauxhalls as well. The front-wheel drive chassis was designed to make driving as easy as possible, which made the Corsa an ideal choice for driving schools. The 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 petrol engines and 1.5 diesel were all-new injection units. More expensive versions of the Corsa could be had with power steering, electric windows, central locking, antilock brakes and airbags. Like almost all of the competition, the Corsa was available only as a hatchback with three or five doors. Running costs and asking prices were both low. The Corsa proved to be an instant sales success in Europe. A facelift in the autumn of 1996 saw the Corsa receive a new grille and the chassis retuned by Lotus to give better handling. Economical 1.0 three-cylinder petrol and 1.7 turbo-diesel engines were added to the range. But there were few real changes. OPEL CORSA MK3 (2000-present) The third generation Opel Corsa was launched in the autumn of 2000, a welcome launch because the old Corsa was falling behind the likes of the Fiat Punto and Peugeot 206 in the supermini sector. At the front, the new Corsa preserved traditional Vauxhall/Opel styling characteristics, but at the back it resembled a Fiat Punto. Beneath the exterior lay a spacious and comfortable interior, which came with impressive equipment levels. Almost all of the range could be had with air-conditioning, electric windows, CD player and central locking as either optional or standard equipment. The 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 petrol engines were carried over from the previous Corsa but the 1.7 turbo-diesel and 1.8 petrol were both all-new. Lotus was responsible for tuning the new Corsa chassis, which was interlinked with 'speed sensitive power steering'. This combination gave excellent ride and handling. In many ways, the new Corsa felt like a large car trapped in a small body. Its classy dashboard would not feel out of place in the Vectra two sizes up. After four years in production, the third generation Vauxhall/Opel Corsa is still one of the best superminis on sale in Europe. In 2002 it overtook the Ford Fiesta in the British sales charts but was beaten to the top of the supermini sector by the Peugeot 206. == Car article overwrites == Who or what causes these entries to appear? They have been appearing across many car articles over the last few weeks, sometimes on the talk pages. They look suspicously copy-vio and not very encyclopedic. There are a dozen more if you go back through my contrib list, including several Renault, Peugot, and VW cars. User:Akadruid 09:15, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC) :Seems to be a bizarre form of vandalism. Feel free to revert if in doubt - most of the changes do not enhance the article, and I agree, do appear to have been lifted from elsewhere. User:GRAHAMUK 12:07, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::Yep, some anon has been doing this. The funny thing is, I don't think they're copyvio! The revisions are textually different! I think someone thinks they are helping by wiping the entire contents and writing new from scratch each time! We haven't been able to get the message to them that that's not how Wikipedia works... Yes, please revert whenever you see this happen and look for the other "contribs" from that IP when it happens. I've been integrating the (actually quite valuable) info from these rewrites when it happens, so you can add them to my To Do list at my userpage if you want... --User:Sfoskett 17:51, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC) :::Whoever it is, they are using many IP addresses. I've started a (incomplete) list of the pages, times and IP addresses at User:Akadruid/overwrites, so please do use any of those, or add any more you find to the list. Hopefully we can turn this apparent vandalism into A Good Thing between us! User:Akadruid 10:43, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::Like Sfoskett, I don't think they're copyvio even though they sound a bit like a brochure. I mentioned on another page that the writer has his/her own conventions, such as the capitalized MK and no space afterwards—which I doubt would appear in a properly published text. The many IPs are likely due to the writer's ISP assigning what is available when dialling up, rather than any malice. Anyway, like most of you I have been knocking them into shape, taking the pertinent info from them and putting them into the earlier versions, etc. User:Stombs 04:10, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC) == Gamma platform - is it responsibility of GM DAT or Opel/Fiat? == I keep seeing references on GM Daewoo Auto and Technology developing next GM Gamma platform in various GM-related articles, but Fiat Punto article says it's joint responsibility of Opel and Fiat. There are recent PRs from Fiat stating this, and there's no mention of GM DAT activities anywhere. Please visit Talk:GM_Gamma_platform for further discussion! --User:DmitryKo 22:40, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Souped up== ''Souped up'' has just been changed to ''suped up'' presumably because the writer thinks (wrongly) that suped is a contraction of ''supercharged''. In fact souped up ''is'' correct, here's an extract from the Cambridge Dictionary:
SOUPED UP
to make mechanical changes to (something, esp. a car) to make it unusually powerful Example: He souped it up so that it could go at speeds of over 100 mph.
I've reverted - User:Arpingstone 15:33, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC) :This is correct - it's "souped up" not "suped up". FYI, the American Heritage Dictionary says that it comes from "material injected into a horse to make it run faster". --User:Sfoskett 14:23, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC) ::Oh, for christ's sake. What your dictionary entries show is that a misspelling can occasionally become so common that people forget the derivation of a term. The term entered the language in the 1950's, when hot rodders started applying superchargers to their cars. Describing a car as "Souped" up is a pun, that has been a staple of humorous essays in hotrodder publications since about that time. ::These people have it right: ::http://www.suped-up-cars.com/ ::Oh, and BTW: the American Heritage Dictionary is hardly an authority. The Oxford English Dictionary has no entries for either "suped" or "souped". :::While it is understandable to have changed it to "suped" (because of supercharger and "super"), "souped up" pre-dates the automobile by a few centuries. It refers to the "soup" that you would inject an animal with, and has been used to describe many performance-enhanced items since then. :::As for authorities, I'd say any dictionary that DOES have an entry (with an etymology) is more of an authority than one that has none, or some web site. But since you like the web, compare Google's number of matches for "[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22souped+up%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official souped up]" and "[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22suped+up%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official suped up]" and you will see that the former is 8 times more popular than the latter. Finally, if you persist with this edit war, I will not hesitate to change the phrase to "modified" or "hot-rodded". :-) --User:Sfoskett 16:58, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC) ::::Wrong, Mr Anon!! Firstly, we are not writing Wikipedia for the hot rodder but for the ordinary reader. So what hot rodders use among themselves is irrelevant. Secondly, the use of For Christs Sake is sad . Thirdly, the derivation of the term ''for the ordinary reader'' is not suped from supercharge but souped from the injection given to a horse to alter it's speed. My evidence is from two respected sources:, the one-volume Collins English Dictionary and the Cassells Dictionary of Slang. Cassells says ''"souped-up=intensified, especially of a car that has been modified by its owner to exceed the factory performance:from SOUP=anything injected into a horse to alter its speed or temperament. First used in the 1930s".'' So the term did not originate in the 1950s! ::::Collins says ''"soup-up=to modify a vehicle in order to increase its power'' but gives no derivation. Neither have any mention of suped-up. What say you now? Best Wishes (written before I saw SFoskett latest contribution)- User:Arpingstone 17:15, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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The Corsa is a small Automobile or supermini car produced by General Motors in Europe. The Corsa is sold under a large range of brand names in different countries: *United Kingdom: Vauxhall Motors Corsa *Continental Europe: Opel Corsa *Latin America: Chevrolet Corsa (Chevrolet Classic since 2005) *Middle East: Chevrolet Barina *Australasia: Holden Barina *China: Buick Sail (until 2005) *Japan: Opel Vita (Toyota already had a model using the Corsa name) It is not sold in the United States or Canada. The Corsa has been built at GM's plant in Zaragoza in Spain, and is also produced in Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, India, and China. ==Opel Corsa A== The front wheel drive Corsa was first launched in 1983 to replace the Vauxhall Chevette. Built in Zaragoza, Spain, the first Corsas were three-door hatchback and two-door saloon models, with four-door and five-door versions arriving two years later. It was known in the UK as the Vauxhall Nova (as it was considered that Corsa sounded too much like ''coarser''), and became best known as a popular choice of car driving schools. Although many young British 'boy racer' and 'Chavs' customised or 'souped up' their models (and continue to do so to this day), the Nova was usually seen as dull. Power came from 1.0 L, 1.2 L, 1.3 L, and 1.4 L petrol engines which were short on performance but strong on economy. The engines and most of the mechanical components were derived from those used in the General Motors Astra. A 1.6 L fuel injected engine with 100 hp (74 kW) and capable of 186 km/h (115 mph) was later added to the Corsa/Nova range, giving better performance and being badged as a ''GSi'' or ''GTE''. But the car's handling was still criticized as uninvolving and the styling called dull inside and out. There were also reports of a significant number of roll-over accidents not involving any other vehicles, that called the handling into question. The design was freshened for 1990, but the car was showing its age against strong competition from cars like the Renault Clio and Peugeot 106. ==Opel Corsa B== In 1993, a curvier, more attractive, Corsa was unveiled, and in the UK Vauxhall dropped the Nova name, the car now being known as the Corsa in the UK. The next year, it was launched by Holden in Australia, as the Barina replacing a version of the Suzuki Swift sold under that name. This proved a success, and was the first Spanish-built car to be sold in significant volumes on the Australian market. Power came from 1.2 L, 1.4 L and 1.6 L GM Family 1 engine petrol engines, as well as an economical 1.5 L turbo-diesel. Unlike the previous model, there was no sedan version, but one was designed in Brazil for the Latin American market, as sedans were much preferred to hatchbacks. This was also introduced in South Africa and India. A station wagon, panel van and pick-up truck were also introduced. The wagon version was sold in some European markets, including Italy, badged as an Opel. A 1.0 L straight-3 GM Family 0 engine economy version was launched in 1996, and a Lotus Cars-tuned suspension was added as well as an exterior refresh. Strong competition came from new models like the Peugeot 206, Fiat Punto and Skoda Fabia. A German designed Cabriolet version was offered in this model, based on the 3-door hatchback. The cabriolet featured a cloth roof, and a padded roll cage. The sedan model is still built and sold in Brazil as the Chevrolet Corsa Classic, renamed to Chevrolet Classic for the 2005 model year. A budget version, the Chevrolet Celta, has bodywork resembling the third-generation Corsa but in fact rests on second-generation underpinnings. The sedan version was produced in China by GM Shanghai as Buick Sail until 2005. In India, the hatchback and wagon versions are still sold, as the Corsa Sail and Corsa Swing respectively. ==Opel Corsa C== The current model Corsa was introduced in 2001, with distinctive styling for the three-door and five-door hatchbacks. General Motors dubbed the new chassis GM Gamma platform and intended to use it in a number of other models. A sedan version is also offered in Latin America, South Africa and the Middle East. The Brazilian version of the Corsa sold in those countries has a distinctive front end, more conservative than its European counterpart. Brazil also offers a four-door and pick-up truck version of the Corsa (the latter named Chevrolet Montana), which is exported in Completely Knocked-Down (CKD) kit to South Africa for local assembly. The 1.0 L, 1.2 L and 1.4 L petrol engines were carry overs from the previous range, but the 1.7 L ''Circle L engine'' turbo-Diesel and 1.8 L petrol engines were both new. In 2002, the Corsa chassis spawned a mini-MPV called the Meriva, development of which began under Opel in Rüsselsheim but finished by Chevrolet do Brasil. ==Future== A new version of the GM Gamma platform is currently being codeveloped by Fiat and Opel. It will be shared across 2005 Fiat Punto, 2006 Opel Corsa and future versions of Lancia Ypsilon and Fiat Idea. A variant of it may be employed by GM Daewoo for use in its sub-compact cars.
General Motors Corsa
OPEL CORSA MK1 (1983-1993) In early 1983, Opel launched an all-new front-wheel drive supermini - the Corsa. It was built at Zaragoza in Spain and sold in Britain as the Vauxhall Nova. Power came from 1.0, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.6 petrol engines, which were mostly noisy and unrefined. Reliability too was far from perfect. But the Corsa's key selling points were its competitive starting price and low running costs. It was aimed squarely at the Ford Fiesta, Volkswagen Polo and Austin Metro. The launch of the Nova saw the Chevette disappear from the Vauxhall range. Bodystyles were hatchback (three and five doors) and saloon (two and four doors). The most popular bodystyle was three-door hatchback. In the autumn of 1990, the Corsa was facelifted with a new front end and improved interior, but the age of the design was starting to show in the face of more modern rivals like the Peugeot 106 and Renault Clio. The last of the first generation Corsas rolled off the production line early in 1993, and the Nova name was shelved on British Vauxhalls. Even now, more than a decade after the end of production, the Vauxhall Nova is proving popular with 'boy racers' because of its low insurance premiums and paltry value. OPEL CORSA MK2 (1993-2000) The second generation Opel Corsa was launched in early 1993, a completely new car - this time using the Corsa badge on Vauxhalls as well. The front-wheel drive chassis was designed to make driving as easy as possible, which made the Corsa an ideal choice for driving schools. The 1.2, 1.4 and 1.6 petrol engines and 1.5 diesel were all-new injection units. More expensive versions of the Corsa could be had with power steering, electric windows, central locking, antilock brakes and airbags. Like almost all of the competition, the Corsa was available only as a hatchback with three or five doors. Running costs and asking prices were both low. The Corsa proved to be an instant sales success in Europe. A facelift in the autumn of 1996 saw the Corsa receive a new grille and the chassis retuned by Lotus to give better handling. Economical 1.0 three-cylinder petrol and 1.7 turbo-diesel engines were added to the range. But there were few real changes. OPEL CORSA MK3 (2000-present) The third generation Opel Corsa was launched in the autumn of 2000, a welcome launch because the old Corsa was falling behind the likes of the Fiat Punto and Peugeot 206 in the supermini sector. At the front, the new Corsa preserved traditional Vauxhall/Opel styling characteristics, but at the back it resembled a Fiat Punto. Beneath the exterior lay a spacious and comfortable interior, which came with impressive equipment levels. Almost all of the range could be had with air-conditioning, electric windows, CD player and central locking as either optional or standard equipment. The 1.0, 1.2 and 1.4 petrol engines were carried over from the previous Corsa but the 1.7 turbo-diesel and 1.8 petrol were both all-new. Lotus was responsible for tuning the new Corsa chassis, which was interlinked with 'speed sensitive power steering'. This combination gave excellent ride and handling. In many ways, the new Corsa felt like a large car trapped in a small body. Its classy dashboard would not feel out of place in the Vectra two sizes up. After four years in production, the third generation Vauxhall/Opel Corsa is still one of the best superminis on sale in Europe. In 2002 it overtook the Ford Fiesta in the British sales charts but was beaten to the top of the supermini sector by the Peugeot 206. == Car article overwrites == Who or what causes these entries to appear? They have been appearing across many car articles over the last few weeks, sometimes on the talk pages. They look suspicously copy-vio and not very encyclopedic. There are a dozen more if you go back through my contrib list, including several Renault, Peugot, and VW cars. User:Akadruid 09:15, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC) :Seems to be a bizarre form of vandalism. Feel free to revert if in doubt - most of the changes do not enhance the article, and I agree, do appear to have been lifted from elsewhere. User:GRAHAMUK 12:07, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC) ::Yep, some anon has been doing this. The funny thing is, I don't think they're copyvio! The revisions are textually different! I think someone thinks they are helping by wiping the entire contents and writing new from scratch each time! We haven't been able to get the message to them that that's not how Wikipedia works... Yes, please revert whenever you see this happen and look for the other "contribs" from that IP when it happens. I've been integrating the (actually quite valuable) info from these rewrites when it happens, so you can add them to my To Do list at my userpage if you want... --User:Sfoskett 17:51, Oct 4, 2004 (UTC) :::Whoever it is, they are using many IP addresses. I've started a (incomplete) list of the pages, times and IP addresses at User:Akadruid/overwrites, so please do use any of those, or add any more you find to the list. Hopefully we can turn this apparent vandalism into A Good Thing between us! User:Akadruid 10:43, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC) :::Like Sfoskett, I don't think they're copyvio even though they sound a bit like a brochure. I mentioned on another page that the writer has his/her own conventions, such as the capitalized MK and no space afterwards—which I doubt would appear in a properly published text. The many IPs are likely due to the writer's ISP assigning what is available when dialling up, rather than any malice. Anyway, like most of you I have been knocking them into shape, taking the pertinent info from them and putting them into the earlier versions, etc. User:Stombs 04:10, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC) == Gamma platform - is it responsibility of GM DAT or Opel/Fiat? == I keep seeing references on GM Daewoo Auto and Technology developing next GM Gamma platform in various GM-related articles, but Fiat Punto article says it's joint responsibility of Opel and Fiat. There are recent PRs from Fiat stating this, and there's no mention of GM DAT activities anywhere. Please visit Talk:GM_Gamma_platform for further discussion! --User:DmitryKo 22:40, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Souped up== ''Souped up'' has just been changed to ''suped up'' presumably because the writer thinks (wrongly) that suped is a contraction of ''supercharged''. In fact souped up ''is'' correct, here's an extract from the Cambridge Dictionary:
SOUPED UP
to make mechanical changes to (something, esp. a car) to make it unusually powerful Example: He souped it up so that it could go at speeds of over 100 mph.
I've reverted - User:Arpingstone 15:33, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC) :This is correct - it's "souped up" not "suped up". FYI, the American Heritage Dictionary says that it comes from "material injected into a horse to make it run faster". --User:Sfoskett 14:23, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC) ::Oh, for christ's sake. What your dictionary entries show is that a misspelling can occasionally become so common that people forget the derivation of a term. The term entered the language in the 1950's, when hot rodders started applying superchargers to their cars. Describing a car as "Souped" up is a pun, that has been a staple of humorous essays in hotrodder publications since about that time. ::These people have it right: ::http://www.suped-up-cars.com/ ::Oh, and BTW: the American Heritage Dictionary is hardly an authority. The Oxford English Dictionary has no entries for either "suped" or "souped". :::While it is understandable to have changed it to "suped" (because of supercharger and "super"), "souped up" pre-dates the automobile by a few centuries. It refers to the "soup" that you would inject an animal with, and has been used to describe many performance-enhanced items since then. :::As for authorities, I'd say any dictionary that DOES have an entry (with an etymology) is more of an authority than one that has none, or some web site. But since you like the web, compare Google's number of matches for "[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22souped+up%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official souped up]" and "[http://www.google.com/search?q=%22suped+up%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official suped up]" and you will see that the former is 8 times more popular than the latter. Finally, if you persist with this edit war, I will not hesitate to change the phrase to "modified" or "hot-rodded". :-) --User:Sfoskett 16:58, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC) ::::Wrong, Mr Anon!! Firstly, we are not writing Wikipedia for the hot rodder but for the ordinary reader. So what hot rodders use among themselves is irrelevant. Secondly, the use of For Christs Sake is sad . Thirdly, the derivation of the term ''for the ordinary reader'' is not suped from supercharge but souped from the injection given to a horse to alter it's speed. My evidence is from two respected sources:, the one-volume Collins English Dictionary and the Cassells Dictionary of Slang. Cassells says ''"souped-up=intensified, especially of a car that has been modified by its owner to exceed the factory performance:from SOUP=anything injected into a horse to alter its speed or temperament. First used in the 1930s".'' So the term did not originate in the 1950s! ::::Collins says ''"soup-up=to modify a vehicle in order to increase its power'' but gives no derivation. Neither have any mention of suped-up. What say you now? Best Wishes (written before I saw SFoskett latest contribution)- User:Arpingstone 17:15, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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