Clean styling and no chrome for the crossover-coupe concept car
The door mirrors have also been replaced with 180-degree rear facing cameras mounted on the rear pillars. If they detect a car in your blind spot, the whole door panel on that side of the Experimental will flash red.
The rest of the interior is really pared back and uncluttered. In fact, Opel has done away with big screens altogether, and instead is using holographic projections and a massive heads-up display. There is a small “Pure Pad” control panel just by the driver’s right hand that has configurable buttons for major functions. The steer-by-wire steering means that the steering wheel can fold away when you don’t need it – Opel is clearly courting the potential of autonomous driving.
Opel has done away with big screens altogether, and instead is using holographic projections and a massive heads-up display One really neat feature is the sat-nav, which instead of using augmented reality arrows to point you down the right road, instead projects a digitised version of the gorgeous 1970s Opel Manta Elektromod EV conversion on to the screen in front of you, and you just follow that.
The Experimental won’t become a production car in its own right, but Opel has two key new cars arriving in the next couple of years upon which it will wield much influence – those are the new Grandland, due next year in fully-electric form as well as with hybrid power, and the revival of the Manta name, which sadly won’t be a muscular 2+2 coupe, but instead a four-door crossover coupe that will be larger than this Experimental concept.