Recently we showed that the centrality dependence of the multiplicity of different hadron species observed in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) experiments can be well understood in a simple model, dubbed the core-corona model. There it is assumed that those incoming nucleons that scatter only once produce hadrons as in pp collisions whereas those that scatter more often form an equilibrated source which decays according to phase space. In this article we show that also kinematical variables such as ${v}_{2}/{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{\mathrm{part}}({N}_{\mathrm{part}})$ as well as ${v}_{2}^{i}/{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{\mathrm{part}}({N}_{\mathrm{part}})$ and $\ensuremath{\langle}{p}_{T}^{i}({N}_{\mathrm{part}})\ensuremath{\rangle}$ of identified particles are well described in this model. The correlation of $\ensuremath{\langle}{p}_{T}^{i}\ensuremath{\rangle}$ between peripheral heavy-ion collisions and pp collisions for different hadrons, reproduced in this model, questions whether hydrodynamical calculations are the proper tool to describe a noncentral heavy-ion collision. The model explains as well the centrality dependence of ${v}_{2}/{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{\mathrm{part}}$ of charged particles, considered up to now as an observable that allows us to determine the viscosity of the quark-gluon plasma. The observed dependence of ${v}_{2}^{i}/{\ensuremath{\epsilon}}_{\mathrm{part}}({N}_{\mathrm{part}})$ on the particle species is a simple consequence of the different ratios of core-to-corona particles.