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Opel Adam: city car revealed in photo shoot

By Tim Beissmann
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The Opel Adam has been spied during a promotional photo shoot in Spain, revealing the all-new city car without camouflage for the first time.

Sporting a youthful design, the cute and quirky Adam will offer a high-style alternative to existing city cars like the Fiat 500 and the Volkswagen Up! when it goes on sale in Europe in the first quarter of 2013.

A large smiling grille with chrome highlights and fog lights directly below the headlights give the Adam an unmistakable face, while pumped rear guards and Citroen DS3-style floating C-pillars inject more character to the back-end.

Opel Adam

The four cars pictured are all finished in unique two-tone paint combinations, with different coloured roofs available across each of the three trim levels – Jam, Slam and Glam – which Opel calls ‘moods’.

The three-door, four-seat Adam is 3.7m long, making it about 150mm longer than the Up! and the 500. A range of Euro VI-compliant three- and four-cylinder petrol and diesel engines will ensure the Adam is among the most fuel efficient city cars on the market.

Opel Adam

The Adam will go head to head with the Up! in Europe, with prices set to start below 10,000 euros ($12,100).

The Adam is among the list of cars that Opel Australia is investigating for our market, but will not be part of the initial launch range that comprises the Corsa, Astra and Insignia, which lands in local showrooms in September.

The Opel Adam will makes its official world premiere at the 2012 Paris motor show in September.

Opel Adam

Note: Images courtesty of J.Revuelta/Autofacil.es


 
  • Smart US

    id call it Opel Bogan

  • Daniel

    I was skeptical, but I think that actually looks surprisingly good! It’s nicely proportioned, it’s not boring, I can’t think of anything off hand that it’s blatantly copying. Well done, Opel.

    • Loki556

       I can see Fiat 500 design rip off, down to the sitting of the front badge

  • Chest Rockwell

    Opel = Unreliable Junk

    • Igomi Watabi

      tell us about your extensive experience

  • Phunken

    I think its in Opel best interest not to tie any association with Holden when its here even refering to past Astra and Barina/Corsa. Come in fresh without any baggage. I rather have this than boring bland VW. But not sure how it can compete with the price in Oz. Its nicer than a Micra but not enough to infringe into stuff like the Polo or Swift price bracket… No way can they have it at the AU$12k mark here.

    Its a really nicely chic car without the try hard fussy “bogan” styling like the other GM Daewoo Cruze, Barina, Spark…

  • Shakeel-ali

    Anyone else notice the little chrome flick in the c-pillar ala Peugeot 208? I think its a very attractive design, because it’s full of bits from other cars. If you look hard enough you start to notice little similarities with other super-minis.

  • sandal

    Very different to the speculative renderings. It’s like Smart meets Citroen.

    • D987

       I was thinking a similar thing— that low mounted grille looks a lot like the one on a Fortwo.

  • Darryl

    I see Ford Ka in this. And they haven’t bothered to bring the latest version of that here after the huge success it was. 

    • filippo

      The latest Ford Ka (actually a cousin of the Fiat 500) isn’t available with an automatic transmission, so it would go against Ford Australia’s misguided plan to completely phase out manuals. 

  • Opelman

    I quite like the design. The low slung grille is reminiscent of the Opel Speedster / Vauxhall VX220. Although it does pull some design ques from other car brands, all other car brand take design from their competitors too… So I don’t see a problem with that. Perhaps the alliance with Citroen/Peugeot can be attributed to the C pillar design on the Adam. As for renaming the car Opel Bogan, what does that even men? All I can say is that it is a comment coming from someone who puts a Chevy badge on a Commodore and thinks its a muscle car!… Grow up!