Opel Agila Car Review

The Opel Agila is a minivan with five doors and five seats. It is smaller than the other two carriers of Opel, the Zafira and Meriva. This model shares many elements with the Suzuki Splash and replaces the previous Opel Agila.


2008 Opel Agila
Opel Agila


The Opel Agila is available with three engines, two petrol and one diesel and two levels of equipment called 'Essentia' and 'Enjoy'. The most affordable costs € 9520 (gasoline engine with 65 hp) and the most expensive € 12,920 (Diesel 75 hp).


2008 Opel Agila
Opel Agila


The Opel Agila is a practical car for use in day to day city is fairly large and has many holes throughout the interior to make objects. Maneuver in a small space (the turning diameter is 9.6 m) but the direction is not very directly.


2008 Opel Agila
Opel Agila


The Opel Agila is a car with good interior height, not very wide and with sufficient space for the legs of two adults of normal stature sitting one behind the other. Opel has placed the driver's seat at a rather high (in relation to tourism) to increase the driver's perspective.


2008 Opel Agila
Opel Agila


The driving position is correct but there are two areas for improvement: one is that the wheel does not adjust in depth and the other is that some drivers, the right leg will be resting on the edge of the center console, which is annoying over the miles.


2008 Opel Agila
Opel Agila


Since the width is small, the rear seats are only suitable for two adults or three children. The legroom in these places is not great and neither could be much higher but Opel has used a system of sliding rear seats lengthwise (like a Renault Twingo or a Toyota Yaris), as these are placed in a very delayed (This solution does a sliding rear seat that could have served to expand the capacity of the trunk when not in use the rear seats).


2008 Opel Agila Interior


2008 Opel Agila
Opel Agila


The maximum volume is 225 liter trunk and is less able than a Toyota Yaris or Nissan Micra, and more than a Peugeot 1007. Anyway there is a double bottom (35 liters capacity) in objects that fit the size of a backpack (for carrying a laptop) or the trunk tray. With the rear seats downcast, it measures 1050 l in volume. The folding rear seat can be partly because it is divided into two, with a 1 / 3-2 / 3.


2008 Opel Agila Engine


2008 Opel Agila
Opel Agila


The instrumentation consists of a large speedometer behind the wheel, with a screen and witnesses, and a separate counter and on a higher plane. The lighting is red, a detail that will also have future models. You may have controls on the steering wheel.


At least the version equipped with serial ('Essentia') there are four airbags, Isofix rings, steering assistance depending on the speed of the Opel Agila or the driver's seat with height adjustment, among other things. In version "Enjoy", more equipment, there are some elements.


You can have stability control but missing some elements of modern equipment (and more or less useful) as the entry system and keyless start, xenon headlights and automatic parking brake.


In the range of two petrol engines of origin Suzuki, a three-cylinder 1.0-liter displacement and 65 hp of maximum power, the other with four-cylinder, 1.2 liter 86 hp. There is also a 1.2-liter diesel engine capacity and 75 hp, which can carry particulate filter.


The gearbox is standard five-speed manual anyway. The more powerful petrol can also carry an optional automatic gearbox for four. The gear lever is close to the steering wheel which facilitates its use.


The most powerful gasoline engine has a CO2 emission of 140 g / km. The Opel Agila with less powerful engines (diesel and 75 petrol 65 hp) emission is 120 g / km, which are exempt from road tax. Purchased with other models of its size and power, the Opel Agila 86 hp petrol consumption is the best and the best acceleration.


Two petrol engines are aluminum, have indirect injection and four valves per cylinder with dual camshafts. Diesel, which makes GM Powertrain, is an iron block engine with four valves per cylinder, and feeding through common as the leading alternative models of Opel.


The chassis of the Opel Agila, such as the Suzuki Splash, is developed from having the Suzuki Swift. The front suspension is McPherson and the rear wheel axle torsional coupled runs. The smaller wheels will be 15 inches.


The stability control can not disconnect, but the traction control: it facilitates the circulation in conditions of low grip, such as on roads where snow chains are carried on.


The Opel Agila measures 3.74 m in length, almost the same as a Peugeot 1007 (3.73 m). The Opel Agila is much larger than the previous (3.53 m). The width is 1.68 m and height 1.59 m. Proportions are normal among carriers of this size. The previous Opel Agila was higher than wide (1.62 wide and 1.69 high). The aerodynamic coefficient is 0.35, a mean value.


Until now, smaller carriers are not having success. Sales of the Mitsubishi Colt, Peugeot 1007 and Renault Modus are lower than anticipated; Toyota has not released in Europe a version of the current Yaris Verso.


A model of this type, which has been more acceptances, is the Opel Meriva, which is distinguished from them by having a larger size and a wider range of engines.

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