The new Opel Zafira Tourer 2012

The new Opel Zafira Tourer 2012 model year, this car is the automaker from Germany, which replaces the gain popularity and recognition around the world drivers' predecessor. Introduced in the spring at the Geneva Motor Show as the Opel Zafira Tourer Concept, a seven-seater minivan brings to the segment family car with an extensive list of systems, security and comfort, as well as a flexible, easily customizable and roomy interior.

Opel Zafira Tourer 2012 - a proposal for those who are small for the size of the new Meriva, with a huge 1860 liters of luggage capacity, with folded seats of the second and third row. It is 40 liters more than its predecessor. Even more remarkable is the difference in the five seats occupied by passengers, when 710 liters are still available seats, ahead of the previous Opel Zafira at 65 liters.

Externally, the new Opel Zafira Tourer very positively different from its predecessor by offering a sculptural design with modern, like the Ampera modular forms boomerang headlamps that combine the entire front of the vehicle lighting equipment, including fog and main lights, and turn indicators and daytime running lights.

From the list of numerous innovations in the new Opel Zafira Tourer uses the second generation of the anterior chamber, the signal from which is the basis for a number of innovative systems to facilitate the driver lives. The company also reported that the level of comfort and control of the new Zafira has its origins in the successful Insignia, offering a minivan with the convenience and maneuverability of a sedan.

The main difference from previous models within the Zafira - it is not solid, and the split second row seats, which consists of three independently folded and able to move forward by 100 millimeters and 110 back seats. Two additional seats in the third row, as well as providing a precursor fold flat floor, ready for transportation of baggage.

In addition, the new Opel Zafira 2012 model year available is a unique feature of its kind, which by pressing a button turns the second row of seats of the three-seater two-seater, offering passengers a comfortable chair with a transformation by the middle seat in the comfortable armrests. Second-row seatbacks can be adjusted in four fixed positions, at 0, 16, 20 and 24 degrees.

The engine range of the new Zafira 2012 includes three versions of the 2.0-liter turbo-diesel CDTI with Common-Rail technology and the two versions of the turbocharged 1.4-liter turbocharged power unit.

Diesel engines Opel Zafira Tourer

1. 110-hp power unit with a torque of 260 Nm, maximum speed of 183 kilometers per hour and acceleration from zero to hundred in 12.5 seconds.
2. 130-hp engine with maximum torque of 300 Nm between 1,750 and 2,500 revolutions per minute, which accelerates the Zafira Tourer from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 11.4 seconds and allows you to develop a top speed of 191 kilometer per hour.
3. Mast power unit capacity of 165 horsepower and a top speed of 208 kilometers per hour, carrying out the acceleration from zero to hundred in 9.8 seconds with an impressive torque of 350 Nm, and the Overboost mode to 380 Nm.

Last Zafira engine management system is equipped with a standard start-stop and turbocharger with variable turbine geometry, and all power units are the least harmful to the environment, with a modest fuel consumption of 5.2 liters per 100 kilometers.

Gasoline engines Opel Zafira Tourer
Gasoline engines Zafira 2012 1.4 liter have a capacity of 120 and 140 horsepower with fuel consumption 6.3 liters per 100 kilometers and 148 grams of harmful emissions per kilometer. 140-horsepower engine propels the new Zafira from 0 to 100 kilometers per hour in 10.7 seconds and has a torque of 220 Nm, 20 Nm more than the new Insignia 2012.

Shortly after the start of sales will offer the Opel Zafira Tourer diesel model with 130 horsepower with Ecoflex technology and engine management system start-stop, which will consume only 4.5 liters of fuel per 100 kilometers in harmful emissions of 119 grams per kilometer.

In addition, since the beginning of 2012 will be available Opel Zafira Tourer with a 1.6-liter turbocharged engine technology Ecoflex, which runs on gas and has a capacity of 150 horsepower.

All diesel engines Opel Zafira Tourer work in conjunction with an optimized 6-speed manual transmission, but for the 165-strong diesel and petrol models available automatic gearbox.

Frugal fuel consumption became available thanks to a German developer of the system start-stop, which shuts off the engine Opel Zafira Tourer during short stops at traffic lights and traffic jams. Disconnection occurs when the driver sets the shift lever in neutral position, and instantly launch - during power transmission.

To use start-stop system with multiple starts the engine requires a sufficiently large amount of electrical energy from a powerful battery recharge that occurs during braking, which helps further reduce fuel consumption by getting rid of the load on the generator engine. Even the air conditioning compressor is the new Opel Zafira Tourer is equipped with a mechanical coupling, which at certain moments, to save fuel off the extra load on the engine.