2011 Vauxhall Meriva Concept photos
The new Vauxhall Meriva, which will be apparent at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2010, is the aboriginal Vauxhall to affection FlexDoors, showcased in 2008's Meriva architecture concept. FlexDoors are rear-hinged aback doors which beat accessible appear the aback of the car at an bend of about 90 degrees, awfully convalescent the affluence with which occupants access and leave the cabin. Rather than accepting to footfall back, or to one side, as one would application a accustomed front-hinged door, the FlexDoor allows bare advanced access/egress to and from the cabin, added added by the Vauxhall Meriva's awfully aerial roof line.
2011 Vauxhall Meriva Concept photos
For parents with children, there are added benefits. Due to the beyond aperture aperture and chargeless amplitude about the B-pillar, parents can lift baby accouchement assiduously in to rear-mounted, second-stage adolescent seats after accepting to bend themselves about a door. And with both the advanced and rear doors accessible (the fronts accessible at a agnate bend to the rear FlexDoors) a 'parent-friendly' area is created with no aperture barrier amid advanced and rear occupants.While the abstraction of two rear-hinged aback doors is not new in the motor industry, the Vauxhall Meriva's FlexDoor arrangement is the aboriginal time it has been acclimated on a ancestors car in contempo years. But clashing added rear-hinged aperture applications (Rolls Royce Phantom/Ghost and Mazda RX8), the Vauxhall Meriva allowances from advanced and rear doors that accessible independently, and does not crave rear cartage to sit abaft the aperture opening.
