Friday, February 25, 2011

Geneva 2011: World premiere of Opel Zafira Tourer Concept

Its world premiere of the Opel Zafira Tourer Concept at the Geneva Motor Show (3 to 13 March). The study also looks at the next generation of monocab trendsetter. The concept vehicle combines maximum flexibility with the feeling of luxury and to create the perfect combination of functionality and comfort factor.

The Zafira Tourer Concept comes with a light, bright, high-quality interior which offers a very generous space for rear passengers. "We have transferred the idea of a lounge on a vehicle and have created an automotive wellness oasis, a place of relaxation and recreation. In the lounge, passengers can retreat.

It is a comfortable, spacious place to feel comfortable - no matter whether the business trip or relaxing on a long vacation, "says Opel design chief Mark Adams. For a light-filled interior provides the panoramic windshield to seamlessly generous glass "sky" adjacent to the rear. A second disc of high-quality plastic is illuminated by LEDs on the edges.

It contains tiny metal particles reflect a warm light. It can vary in different shades of yellow, which enhances the ambience. In the Tourer Concept, Opel Zafira, the engineers "Flex7" seating concept of the seven-seat Zafira have evolved. The third row can remain completely submerged in the ground.

By pressing a button is out of the five-seat configuration automatically in a spacious four-seater with First-Class-Feeling Fund. A novel folding mechanism is there, the back of the second row middle seat, the armrests for the passengers on the two outer seats. The outer seats go diagonally back toward the center of the vehicle and provide for maximum leg and Armfreiheit.

With folded footrests it will make it a perfect rest position. Innovative, electrically driven, rotating three-piece headrest increase beyond the comfortable character of the interior. In the lounge setting they wave - except on the driver's seat - by 90 degrees in the horizontal position, with the two outer elements bulge slightly forward.

For security reasons, they remain in the travel mode is set up vertically. In the first row of seats is dominated by a large touch screen display, the center console. In is located under a door to a storage compartment, in the example, a tablet computer or "disappear" iPad can. The heater can be controlled via two knobs below the screen, the air conditioning on so-called easy-touch buttons.

With the flexible and pivoted Tablet computers in the seatbacks of the front seats, the passengers in the second set comfortably surf the Internet, or control multimedia applications. The caramel-colored leather seats are upholstered in a slightly remote with color, stitched seams and reinforced edges and held in Cocoa door panels emphasize the exclusive ambience.

This includes also the soft, deep pile carpet and all other used materials pleasant to the touch. Contrasting interior encloses the Zafira Tourer Concept a sculpted and powerful exterior design, painted in Liquid Metal Frost, a very special, metallic silver gray. The distinctive curved front with the arrow-shaped headlamps and air intakes of the two trapezoidal grille provides a dynamic, sporty appearance.

The Opel-typical, arrow-shaped daytime running lights, the AFL Adaptive Forward Lighting with bi-xenon headlamps and fog lamps are housed behind a Plexiglas also arrow-shaped cover. The fog lamps, framed by a polished aluminum bar, cool bluish glow and stand in contrast to the warm atmosphere of the interior.

These elements reduce the front overhang visually. From the grill to the front window, the characteristic crease runs along the hood. The dark tail lights are also made of arrow-Optics with LED technology. The horizontal aluminum crossbar with the Opel logo takes place well into the lighting elements, which the Opel Zafira Tourer Concept can also appear from behind, wide and sporty.

The support in the lower skirt area into another aluminum bar integrated dual exhaust with one narrow parallelogrammähnlichen exhaust on each side of the dynamic impression. pressed in the side graphics - like the Astra Sport Tourer - the upward extending bead the vehicle forward. The aerodynamic bodywork significantly reduces wind noise and ensure quiet gliding even at high speeds.

The high-quality, dark gray metallic matt-painted 20-inch twin-spoke aluminum wheels with 245/40 R 20 tires underscore the dynamic line. In five, the spokes integrated narrow panels lies a remarkable detail: the Opel designers have designed it to be just as decorative and functional wheel nut protection.

can with a handle, the "hiding" unlock the doors open and star-shaped, and grant access to the studs. For powerful, smooth driving in the Zafira Tourer Concept provides a new variant of the 1.4-liter Turbobenziners that bypasses using start-stop automatic again economical with fuel. The concept car also has a number of innovative technologies that serve the comfort and safety of its occupants, including the adaptive FlexRide mechatronic chassis.

(Ampnet / Sm)

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