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Styling: Balanced proportions, distinctive lines Powertrain: Two gasoline engines, one turbo-diesel, automatic transmission
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New Opel Agila: Friendly, dynamic, flexibleRüsselsheim/Venice. 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.
All Agila models have a wide range of standard equipment, including safety features such as ABS, front and side airbags for driver and front passenger, front passenger airbag deactivation and mountings for the ISOFIX child seat system. And thanks to the five doors as standard, small children can be secured into a child seat quickly and safely. Standard comfort features in the entry-level version include speed-dependent power steering, height-adjustable driver and front passenger seats, rear window washer with interval selection and power tailgate with touchpad. The Enjoy model boasts an even greater range of standard features.
Make the Agila even more agile - that was the aim during chassis development. The new dynamic look is also reflected in the car's responsiveness. The Agila's chassis, which features A-arms and McPherson struts in front and a torsion beam axle in the rear, is tuned for driving fun. Depending on the market and equipment variant, the Agila also features an Electronic Stability Program (ESP). 1 All performance and consumption data is preliminary.
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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. The front boasts typical Opel styling. With its round
headlamps integrated into almond-shaped lamp units that echo the new Corsa,
the Agila sees the world through wide eyes. The tapering of the front and
rear bumpers are also typical Opel elements, just like the crease in the
hood. The rear also features several rounded details. The positioning of
the narrow vertical light units, which are accented by the spherically styled
rear lights, allowed designers to create a large, easy load-through tailgate.
The same is true for the interior: the boring days are over. A wide selection
of fresh colors and modern styles create an ambience that's enhanced even
more by the spacious headroom. The versatile five-seater's high seating position
ensures good visibility, while the high placed gear stick and height-adjustable
steering wheel with radio remote controls ensure easy operation. The rev
counter is housed separately on the instrument panel. All other information
readouts are given on large, distinctive, round instruments. As an urban
car it also offers plenty of compartments and boxes for storing all passengers'
belongings. But it's not just car essentials that the new Agila stows away
easily. Despite its compact exterior dimensions, the new Opel urban car boasts
a surprisingly large luggage compartment. Its standard capacity up to the
luggage compartment cover is 225 liters, large enough for a stroller, for
example. One turn of a handle drops the rear bench seat back, increasing
the load volume to an impressive 1050 liters - a top value in this segment.
The rear bench seat and back also splits 60:40 for even greater versatility.
Two gasoline engines make
their world premiere in the new Agila. Supplied by cooperation partner Suzuki,
they share the same design - aluminum cylinder block and head, as well as
two overhead camshafts. The entry-level unit is the almost one-liter,
three-cylinder gasoline engine. The four-valve unit produces 65 hp (48 kW)
and has a top speed of 160 km/h1. The 1.2-liter four-cylinder
gasoline engine produces 86 hp (63 kW), accelerates from zero to 100 km/h
in less than 12 seconds and has a top speed of 174 km/h (values for five-speed
manual version). This engine is now optionally available with a four-speed
automatic transmission - an especially attractive alternative for city driving.
The fuel-saving master among the Agila engines is the 1.3-liter common-rail
turbo-diesel. Developed by GM Powertrain, the diesel engine is a true
multi-talent and also offers an especially efficient alternative in the Corsa
and Astra model lines. In the new Agila it produces 75 hp (55 kW), has a
top speed of 162 km/h and a zero to 100 km/h sprint of 13.5 seconds. The
powerful diesel unit with a maximum torque of 190 Nm is very economical:
on average it consumes less than five liters per 100 km, which represents
a CO2 per kilometer value of under 130 g (finalized values not yet available).