Zafira A OPC

STORY

The Zafira arrived in 1999 as Opel's seven-seat compact van, and the Flex7 seating was the point of the car: the rear seats folded away instead of being taken out, so the interior could change from seven seats to two without anything being removed. In 2001 Opel added a performance version, the Zafira OPC, with a turbocharged 2.0-litre engine rated at 192 PS (141 kW), a claimed 220 km/h top speed and 0-100 km/h in about 8.2 seconds. When the second-generation Zafira took over in 2005, Opel kept the Flex7 idea rather than replacing it, so the system that defined the first car carried into the next.