2011 Opel Meriva introduces FlexDoors, innovative

2011 Opel Meriva Review
Now, the second generation Opel Meriva again raises the bar for affordable, on-board flexibility. It also introduces FlexDoors, innovative rear-hinged rear doors that facilitate access to its cabin – a premiere for a volume manufacturer.

The Meriva’s flexibility trademark is enhanced by expressive exterior and interior styling that carries forward Opel’s award-winning new sculptural design language. The rear window graphic features a distinctive wave accentuating the rear-hinged FlexDoors, improving the view for rear seated passengers, particularly children.

“With the Zafira Flex 7 and the Meriva’s FlexSpace seating concepts, we invented a new kind of fully integrated, on-board flexibility,” says Alain Visser, Vice President Sales, Marketing and Aftersales Opel/Vauxhall. Also new for Meriva is the availability of Opel’s unique FlexFix integrated rear bicycle carrier.

Meriva opens up a new dimension in rear seat access with unique rear-hinged rear doors. Unlike the few well-known rear-hinged doors systems available, FlexDoors features full-sized doors which open independently without the need for a clamshell overlap by the front doors.
FlexDoors provide great functionality by making it easy to get into and out of the rear seat. FlexDoors add style to increased functionality.

The widest choice ever offered on an Opel. The new Opel Meriva benefits from a longer wheelbase, wider front and rear tracks, all contributing to improved handling and greater ride comfort.

Opel’s second-generation small monocab has been elegantly styled, with dynamic lines and sculptural shapes.
the newly refined FlexSpace rear seating system. While the system is based on the first Meriva, it now requires fewer, more intuitive motions to move the rear seats and change configurations. With FlexSpace, the rear seating can accommodate one, two or three passengers – and still maintain optimal luggage room. A special “lounge seating” position gives passengers the option to seat two with additional leg and shoulder room.

Called FlexDoors, they are full-sized and open independently from the front doors. Throughout the cabin, storage space has increased largely because of the efficient use of the space in between the two front seats. This is done through the revolutionary FlexRail console system, consisting of exchangeable storage units that slide on aluminum rails between the front seats, at the most accessible place for both front occupants. Optimal combination of expressive design and everyday innovation

The Meriva’s clever rear seating system allows the back to be quickly reconfigured to meet loading and seating requirements. Foremost is the visibility, through the high seating, and roominess, via the FlexSpace system.

Overall, the Opel Meriva offers up to 32 storage opportunities – from back seat pockets to under-seat drawers.The 1.7 liter CDTI engine now introduced in the Opel Meriva is available in two executions – 81 kW/110 hp and 96 kW/130 hp. The 1.7 liter is the first to feature an in-house designed D1 fully integrated diesel engine management system, strongly supporting vehicle dynamics and efficiency. Opel created a new market segment for small, affordable monocabs when it launched the first generation Meriva in 2003.

The Opel Meriva 2011 interior never loses its functionality. The Opel Meriva 2011 clever rear seating system allows the back to be Quickly reconfigured to meet loading and seating requirements

2011 Opel Meriva introduces FlexDoors, innovative

2011 Opel Meriva Review
Now, the second generation Opel Meriva again raises the bar for affordable, on-board flexibility. It also introduces FlexDoors, innovative rear-hinged rear doors that facilitate access to its cabin – a premiere for a volume manufacturer.

The Meriva’s flexibility trademark is enhanced by expressive exterior and interior styling that carries forward Opel’s award-winning new sculptural design language. The rear window graphic features a distinctive wave accentuating the rear-hinged FlexDoors, improving the view for rear seated passengers, particularly children.

“With the Zafira Flex 7 and the Meriva’s FlexSpace seating concepts, we invented a new kind of fully integrated, on-board flexibility,” says Alain Visser, Vice President Sales, Marketing and Aftersales Opel/Vauxhall. Also new for Meriva is the availability of Opel’s unique FlexFix integrated rear bicycle carrier.

Meriva opens up a new dimension in rear seat access with unique rear-hinged rear doors. Unlike the few well-known rear-hinged doors systems available, FlexDoors features full-sized doors which open independently without the need for a clamshell overlap by the front doors.
FlexDoors provide great functionality by making it easy to get into and out of the rear seat. FlexDoors add style to increased functionality.

The widest choice ever offered on an Opel. The new Opel Meriva benefits from a longer wheelbase, wider front and rear tracks, all contributing to improved handling and greater ride comfort.

Opel’s second-generation small monocab has been elegantly styled, with dynamic lines and sculptural shapes.
the newly refined FlexSpace rear seating system. While the system is based on the first Meriva, it now requires fewer, more intuitive motions to move the rear seats and change configurations. With FlexSpace, the rear seating can accommodate one, two or three passengers – and still maintain optimal luggage room. A special “lounge seating” position gives passengers the option to seat two with additional leg and shoulder room.

Called FlexDoors, they are full-sized and open independently from the front doors. Throughout the cabin, storage space has increased largely because of the efficient use of the space in between the two front seats. This is done through the revolutionary FlexRail console system, consisting of exchangeable storage units that slide on aluminum rails between the front seats, at the most accessible place for both front occupants. Optimal combination of expressive design and everyday innovation

The Meriva’s clever rear seating system allows the back to be quickly reconfigured to meet loading and seating requirements. Foremost is the visibility, through the high seating, and roominess, via the FlexSpace system.

Overall, the Opel Meriva offers up to 32 storage opportunities – from back seat pockets to under-seat drawers.The 1.7 liter CDTI engine now introduced in the Opel Meriva is available in two executions – 81 kW/110 hp and 96 kW/130 hp. The 1.7 liter is the first to feature an in-house designed D1 fully integrated diesel engine management system, strongly supporting vehicle dynamics and efficiency. Opel created a new market segment for small, affordable monocabs when it launched the first generation Meriva in 2003.

The Opel Meriva 2011 interior never loses its functionality. The Opel Meriva 2011 clever rear seating system allows the back to be Quickly reconfigured to meet loading and seating requirements

The New 2011 Opel Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition

The 2011 Opel Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition is available on two body color red ‘Henna’ and apple-green ‘Grasshopper’.The maximum torque of the motor base (230 to 266 Nm) is also increased to 250 Nm and 280 Nm when the turbo overboost function is activated.

The 2011 Opel Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition Price estimated at 27.650 euros (incl. VAT in Germany).

It’s called the Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition and will be limited to around 500 units. For the new Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition, Opel offered a specific 10,000-kilometer test program under the toughest conditions on the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife to validate the car’s endurance and to fine-tune the chassis and drive compon

Opel has upgraded its Corsa model line, which is then applied on the recent Opel Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition; this model edition, however, comes in such limited edition. There are indeed some enhancements offered by Opel Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition.

Due to the above enhancements and its 1.6-liter OPC turbo engine, this Opel Corsa OPC edition has 210horsepower/154 kW.

Besides engine enhancement, Opel Corsa OPC Nurburgring Edition also offers exterior interior enhancements, such as mechanical differential on the front axle.

2011 Opel Astra Sports Tourer

The Opel Astra Sports Tourer is a sleek wagon featuring first class practicality in an athletic and stylish shape. Sharing the same Opel design DNA and Sports Tourer name as its larger counterpart the Insignia, its good looks are combined with an ample flexible cargo carrying capability. Efficient trunk design and premium features that enhance the functionality effortlessly raise load space up to 1,550 liters.

The Opel Astra Sports Tourer makes its world premiere at the 2010 Paris Motor Show (October 2-24), and goes on sale in November 2010.

The Opel Astra Sports Tourer gives more benefit from the same harmoniously sculpted cabin as in the five-door hatchback. The wraparound wing front fascia and the flowing forms of the cockpit provide a great sense of space and security. The tapered profile and the prominent side blade-shaped sculpted into the flanks of the body combine to give the Sports Tourer a powerful sense of forward movement. A muscular shoulder line leads gracefully into eye-catching, sculpted rear light units.

The powertrain line-up includes eight vigorous yet frugal gasoline and diesel engines, ranging in power from 70 kW/95 hp to 132 kW/180 hp. A new addition is the 1.4-liter turbo gasoline unit, giving 88 kW/120 hp. It comes with a six-speed manual transmission. The 103 kW/140 hp version of the 1.4 Turbo engine is now also available with a six-speed automatic transmission.

It’s equipped Start/Stop technology and the first application is the new ecoFLEX variant with the 1.3 CDTI engine delivering 70 kW/95 hp.

2010 Opel GTC Paris Concept

The Opel GTC Paris Concept car will be shown for the first time at the 2010 Mondial de l’Automobile 2010 (October 2 – 17). This three-door compact is bold yet pure and is very iconic in presence. It is conceived to be the obtainable dream car delivering German engineered precision and innovation, matched with eye-popping design.

Sporty car at 4.46 meters offers room for five passengers. The front is clean yet full of character and features Opel’s typical centerline crease. Very slim eagle-eye shaped headlamps acting as parenthesis between the refined chrome emblem bar and the dramatic low trapezoidal grill which hints at its sporty character. Signature LED daytime running lights are outlined with finely crafted chrome inserts that can stand as a piece of sculpture by themselves.

The chassis has a special design with an extra-wide stance. It features a compound crank with an Opel-exclusive Watt’s link in the rear, a new, updated execution of the adaptive mechatronic FlexRide suspension and a front electronic limited slip differential. It added with dynamic 21-inch wheels.

The powertrain in the Opel GTC Paris Concept is a four-cylinder, 2.0 liter Turbo with direct injection, packing maximum horsepower and torque. It is fitted with Start/Stop technology, proving that drivers can combine high performance with maximum fuel efficiency in urban driving conditions. The transmission is a six-speed manual gearbox.

2011 Opel Corsa

2011 Opel Corsa facelift has finally been officially revealed. The updated Opel Corsa dons a sharper face with chiseled headlamps, a new upper grille and a restyled front bumper featuring a wider and taller lower grille, plus different foglamp housings. The new look is complemented with six new alloy wheel designs and a larger, redesigned Opel Blitz on the tailgate.

Interior of Opel Corsa includes the dashboard molding sports a more textured skin while all trim levels have been updated with new fabrics and/or decors. There’s also an available new Touch & Connect navigation system featuring a commuter function that uses TMC information to propose alternative routes in case of traffic problems, even when navigation is not active.

A new Corsa EcoFlex 1.3 CDTI [diesel] with 95HP and standard Start/Stop technology also enters the range. Thanks to the start/stop system, the three-door version’s fuel consumption in the combined cycle is reduced from 3.7 to 3.5 liters/100 km [67.2 mpg US] and the emissions from 98 to only 94 g/km CO2. The five-door variant achieves 3.6 l/100 km and emits just 95 g/km CO2. In city driving the updated EcoFlex models returns a fuel consumption of 4.2 liter per 100 kilometers instead of 4.6 l/100 km previously.

Good news that for the new model year, Opel has also added a new trim level called the Color Line Series, which will be available across Europe. The Opel Corsa Color Line Series models can be equipped with an optional “Linea” pack, featuring two large stripes stretching across the length of the body with matching colored 17-inch wheels and exterior mirror caps.

2011 Opel Antara

2011 Opel Antara is off-road capabilities and urban-chic looks with high functionality and safety. It can now be seen as a new competitor in the growing SUV segment. The fully re-worked engine line-up, all Euro-5 compliant, now offers improved driving performance as well as significantly reduced consumption and emissions. The two transmissions available – a six-gear manual and automatic.

The engine range is a newly-developed 2.2 CDTI Turbo diesel, which comes with two outputs. The 120 kW/163 hp offers 36 hp more than its predecessor model. The 135 kW/184 hp version offers 34 hp more power.

The 2.4 liter, four-cylinder version now comes with 125 kW/170 hp, or, 30 hp more power. Like the diesel variants, this engine is available in front-wheel or all-wheel drive and comes as manual or automatic six-gear transmission.

Opel says that the 163 hp variant is available in front-wheel or all-wheel drive as well as with manual or automatic six-gear transmissions. The 184 hp also offers a choice of manual or automatic transmissions, and comes with all-wheel drive as standard.

For 2011, Opel Antara get front grill with bold logo, the fog lights together with chrome bezels. Modified rear lights and optional 19-inch light-metal wheels round out the robust look.

An optimized instrument graphic and effective interior lighting underscore the prestigious ambiance. Also Opel Antara equipped the safety and comfort features in the Opel Antara as well. This includes a standard electric parking brake and the Hill Assist System.

2011 Opel Meriva

A family car with Flexdoors been created by Opel. Opel has presented the 2011 Opel Meriva innovative, versatile and elegant: The second generation Opel Meriva, to premiere at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, will set the new standard for automotive versatility with a multitude of innovative features engineered to optimize the flexible use of space. And it is all packed in a distinctive, contemporary design. Interior of the second generation Opel Meriva storage space enhanced by a revolutionary concept of flexible center console, as well as the Opel-exclusive FlexFix system. raises the bar for affordable, on-board flexibility. Its FlexSpace system has been further developed to become even more intuitive and easier to use.

The 2011 Opel Meriva like the 2011 Vauxhall Meriva using Flexdoors. This car with FlexDoors provide great functionality by making it easy to get into and out of the rear seat. The FlexDoors also open up to 84 degrees, much wider than conventional doors, for which 68-70 degrees is the usual standard. FlexDoors add style to increased functionality. Vastly improving the ease with which occupants enter and leave the cabin.

The 2011 Opel Meriva offering so many ideas that make one’s life easier. Based on Opel Zafira Flex 7 and the Meriva’s FlexSpace seating concepts, we invented a new kind of fully integrated, on-board flexibility.

Designer of the 2011 Opel Meriva created a dynamic and elegant monocab. A lower, sweeping roof-line combined with Opel’s signature blade side-body motif and the wave rear window line give the Opel Meriva a fresh, distinctive character and look.

On this car powertrains features economical and efficient turbocharged engines offering a power bandwidth from 75 to 140 hp. A particularly economical ecoFLEX version will also be offered. The Opel Meriva will offer a choice of 5 and 6-speed manual transmissions as well as a 6-speed automatic gearbox.

2010 Opel Flextreme GT-E Concept

The Opel Flextreme GT / E Concept introduced it self at the 80th Geneva Motor Show on March 4 – 14, 2010. As a car with green technology, offering expressive design with efficient environmental performance – and engineered with German precision. Opel calls this strategy e-mobility unlimited: adapting the highly efficient E-REV drive system – which removes the limitations of battery-only power.

Expressive exterior design is aimed at stand-out visual features include a low and wide stance, wing-shaped lights front and rear, a distinctive nose and grille, floating C-pillars and muscular, sculptured bodywork. The prominent wing-shaped chrome bar carries a large Opel emblem, which doubles as a socket for charging the Opel Flextreme GT/E Concept’s battery pack.

To enjoy zero CO2 driving emissions Opel-style, the Flextreme GT-E concept shows that size doesn’t matter. Despite its greater size and a maximum speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, the Opel Flextreme GT-E Concept is projected to offer performance similar to that of the Ampera: a battery-powered driving range of up to 60 km – with zero CO2 tailpipe emissions – and a total range of more than 500 km. Average fuel consumption is estimated at 1.6 l/100 km, with CO2 emissions of less than 40 g/km.

For typical journeys up to 60 km, energy is supplied by a T-shaped lithium-ion battery pack located under the floor and rear seat. In this mode, the driving range is extended to more than 500 km, until the plug-in battery pack can be recharged or the car is refueled.

Please refer to your Photo Car and technical data on the Opel Flextreme GT- E Concept below:

* Body style
o Type: 5-door coupé, 4-seat upper mid-size concept vehicle
o Co-efficient of drag: 0.22
* Exterior dimensions
o Overall length: 4762 mm
o Height: 1308 mm
o Width: 1871 mm
o Wheelbase: 2900 mm
o Front track: 1600 mm
o Rear track: 1600 mm
* Wheels/Tires
o Wheel size: 21 inch
o Tires: 195/45 R 21; extra low-rolling resistance
* Powertrain
o Type: Electric drive, front-wheel-drive
* Battery system
o Type: Advanced lithium-ion (manganese spinel)
o Energy: 16 kWh
o Nominal voltage: 350 volts
o On-board charger: 3.3 kW
o 100% recharge time (230V outlet): < 3.0 hours
* Electric drive unit
o Max. power: 120 kW
o Torque: 370 Nm
* Generator
o Power: 53 kW peak output
o Engine type: 4-cyl. 1.4l gasoline-fueled combustion engine
* Performance
o Pure electric mode range: 60 km
o Full range, range extender engaged: > 500 km
o CO2 emissions, combined cycle (est.): < 40 g/km
o 0 – 100 km/h acceleration: < 9.0 seconds
o Maximum speed: > 200 km/h

2010 Irmscher Opel Meriva MPV

Opel introduced a small car for customizing specialists Irmscher at the Geneva Motor Show. The 2010 Irmscher Opel Meriva MPV use the only available performance mods for the time being are a 30mm suspension drop and exhaust silencers with elliptical twin exits. The tuner has not released pricing yet on the Meriva sport package.

Irmscher and the German tuning also treats the 2010 Irmscher Opel Meriva MPV with starts by upgrading the small MPV’s exterior with a new radiator grille that’s available in silver or black carbon fiber trim, a new roof spoiler and a choice of 16-, 18- or 19-inch alloy wheels. And at the interior, with a leather package that covers the seats, door panels and central armrest and is offered in a variety of colors, along with aluminium door pins and pedals.

2010 Opel Corsa Football Championship Edition

To celebrate the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, Opel has released a limited edition version of its Corsa supermini dedicated to the German national soccer team. Prices for the new Corsa Football Championship Edition start from €15,160 for 87HP 1.4-liter Ecotec model.

The Opel Corsa Football Championship Edition has features the traditional colors of the country’s soccer team combining a white paint job with stripes that run from the hood to the rear quarter window and also cover the exterior mirrors, and a set of 17-inch alloy wheels finished in black.

This car also gets dark tinted headlights and tail lights, sport seats, aluminum pedals, leather steering wheel and center console in piano black. Air conditioning, stereo CD radio with steering wheel controls, electric windows and central locking with remote control are standard.

2010 Opel Astra by Steinmetz

The Steinmetz tuners work to make the display better than the standard built on the 2010 Opel Astra. These introduced a new lowering kit that brings the compact hatch 30mm (1.2 inches) closer to the road and two 19-inch alloy wheel designs, both of which run on tires size 235/35 R19. For the exterior, Steinmetz include a front spoiler and a rear wing plus new upper and lower front grilles finished in black.

Other tuning options include the interior offers a gear display which shows the driver the gear currently selected, floor mats with a stainless steel logo, and stainless steel sill trims. What do you think after see 2010 Opel Astra by Steinmetz photos’ car below:

How fate Opel in RI?

Although GM decentralizing control of Opel’s car brands, brand holders Sole Agent (ATPM) AutoWorld PT General Motors Indonesia (GMAI) pledged to continue to serve the owners of Opel cars in Indonesia

GMAI is 99 percent owned by GM promised to continue to serve the user for the Opel brand new ATPM not have in Indonesia.
This was revealed by the PR and Corporate Communication Kiki GMAI Dawn in Balikpapan.

“As long as there is no ATPM it, we will continue to serve only our form of service is no longer in salesnya but more to service and spare part supply it,” he explained.

Kiki explains that it is something that absolutely must be done as a form of their responsibilities.

“Moreover, Opel users in Indonesia currently has reached 18 thousand units, it’s also the potential,” he said.

When the Opel will have a new ATPM in Indonesia, all services will be given the power to brand a new holder.

“If there is going to hold the Opel brand here, we just leave it all,” he said

Opel releases new images of the small MPV Meriva 2010, including the first recordings of the Interior

It last won't be long before we see the new Opel Meriva with its rear doors suicide in the body, like the Geneva Motor Show 2010 is just around the corner, but lead to the consumer and media interest, such as cooking, went Opel and published before the new series of photographs of small MPV, which includes the first photographs of the interior.If you've ever seen or even sat in the cockpit of the new Opel Astra or alias Insignia 2011 Buick Regal in North America, the Meriva's design of the instrument panel looks very good.

As a model, which is aimed at slightly younger audience, get Meriva more trendy colors and designs, upholstery options, as well as some unique design features, like the style of ventilation holes, but feel differently than the Astra driver at home.When the rear hinged door that is open at the back almost 90 degrees, mounted the second-generation Meriva will also receive FlexSpace rear bench seat system makes it possible to regain more independent boot legs or arms, tilt, or fully optimal cargo-carrying flexibility.For the new Meriva is a so-called FlexRail bottom center console between the seats, a concept which can be the repository for a wide range of everyday objects from handbags and magazines for iPod, CD, and tissue boxes for the front and rear passengers.Other new features include the optional panoramic roof, full of 's making for almost two meters long and bicycles FlexFix carrier, slides and the rear bumper like a drawer
The new Meriva will be offered with a total of six turbo-charged diesel and petrol units with a capacity between 75 to 140 hp.