New Opel Meriva Spied with Less Camouflage

Opel Meriva prototype spy photo / CarPix

By Brian Potter
March 5, 2009 12:00 AM
Filed Under: German, Opel, Spy Photos

Tired of looking at all those white/black fully camouflaged Opel Meriva prototypes over the past year? Well, we can now show you that GM/Opel has managed to save enough money so they can afford some red color for this lightly camouflaged prototype.

Confirmed by our previous night shots we can see the shape of the front lights, and also for the first time the full shape of the rear lamps is visible and not covered with either camouflage or snow. We can also see the shape of the side body with a sweeping lower body character line lifted right from the Opel Insignia.

What we still can't see are the correct rear door handles. Opel is trying very hard to keep them concealed as this is a major feature for the mini MPV which distinguishes it from the competition. Once again, previous spy photos of a Meriva body-in-white showed the door handles at the front of the door confirming the rearward opening FlexDoor system displayed on the Meriva Concept exactly a year ago in Geneva.

However, as this year's Geneva motor show winds down, there is no Meriva debut. We guess the Meriva production version will take a bow at the Frankfurt motor show in September. In the meantime, we will do our very best to capture how the rear doors open before then.

 

Comments

BabyMilo
March 5, 2009 3:36 AM
my guess is that it will probably be very boring. the only exciting thing about this car will be the suicide doors if they even get into production. My grandparents have the current generation and they love it. Their past 3 cars have been Merivas so i guess that there must be something good in all the boring.

freeway
March 6, 2009 6:03 PM
Anyway... compared to the present one it looks much better with its new design features taken from the Insignia and Corsa, features that surely will be found on the future Astra! You're right about the market niche of buyers: surely we'll not see too many young customers, but that's nothing to worry about for Opel! Now they have more urgent matters on their minds... who knows if we'll ever see anything from Opel in just a few weeks or months... considering the possible collapse... and for me as a current Astra GTC owner it is kind of worrying regarding the warranties a.s.o

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