New Opel Agila @ 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show (IAA)

[siko]

New Opel Agila

Friendly, dynamic, flexible
* Design: Five doors, seating for five adults
* Functional: Versatile thanks to practical details
* Styling: Balanced proportions, distinctive lines
* Powertrain: Two gasoline engines, one turbo-diesel, automatic transmission

With five doors and five seats, the new Opel Agila is not only as practical as its predecessor, which sold over 440,000 units, but is now also much more dynamically designed. The small, versatile Opel will be unveiled to the public at the IAA in Frankfurt (September 13 – 23, 2007) and makes its market premiere in spring 2008. It boasts balanced proportions, soft curves and a distinctive side graphic. Its passengers still sit high and upright, but the roofline has been dynamically lowered and now blends into a smooth arc toward the rear. This helps create the Agila’s aerodynamic drag coefficient of 0.35 – a relatively low figure for a vehicle of this size. The urban car is now 20 centimeters longer, six centimeters wider, but seven centimeters lower than its predecessor.

In detail @ WCF here...

 

[Giannis]

The design is ok. Not beautiful, not ugly, just ok. Engine wise, typical opel. Will it be positioned above the Corsa or below it?

One more thing. Last week i went to the local opel dealer to see the new corsa, as a friend adviced me. Even though it's quite nice, the materials used are of very medium quality, thing that i can't stand a bit! I hope this won't be the case with the Agila. Using a bit better plastics is not a bad thing..

 

[klier]

1000 times better than the old one, though:

 

[ateekt]

Nice looking hatch, way better than last one ...!

Looks more like Japanese hatch, than German ...!

 

[MikeJ]

I think it has been designed in cooperation with Suzuki like the previous one. They tried to sell the old one here but it did abysmally... I only remember seeing a few... and one of them had flipped over on a motorway offramp.

I can't say I'm a fan of the way it looks...

 

[rev]

One more thing. Last week i went to the local Opel dealer to see the new corsa, as a friend adviced me. Even though it's quite nice, the materials used are of very medium quality, thing that i can't stand a bit! I hope this won't be the case with the Agila. Using a bit better plastics is not a bad thing..

Well, I have seen the interior of the new Corsa and to be honest, the materials are better than medium, I dare to say they are pretty good. Especially, if you compare the interior materials of the Corsa with those of the Peugeot 107/Citroen C1 or even with those of the Nissan Note( yes, I know it's not in the same category as the Corsa, but still...) , the Corsa interior looks like Benz interior.

 

[Centurion]

Great improvement. Looks great.