I used to own a corsa vxr got rid of it when both rear wheel bearings went at 16k and the aircon compressor broke along with the aircon pipes cracking.And to top it off both wing mirrors were cracking too. It was only a year and half old and vx wouldn't replace the wing mirrors and at that time there was along wait for wheel bearings and aircon pipes. Got an r27 now and it handles miles better than my corsa vxr did. Id recommend getting a 197.
had my mirrors replaced aswell, took a bit of a fight to get them done.