Opel/Vauxhall continues to tease the next-generation Mokka urban SUV, and is now directing attention to the interior design, which draws inspiration from the Opel GT X Experimental concept car shown in 2018.
The centerpiece of the cabin is the new “Pure Panel” arrangement featuring large displays. Opel describes the setup as “a high-tech cockpit that is both fully digital and yet focused—’detoxed'”. As is increasingly the trend, the widely stretched screens make a multitude of buttons and controls superfluous.
The Opel Pure Panel is also said to provide the latest digital technologies and present important information for the driver “without any irritating visual stimuli”, which we take to mean it’s been designed for maximum ease of use with minimal distraction.
By reducing the number of buttons and controls, Opel/Vauxhall says the interface offers the right balance between digitalization and purely intuitive operation, without needing to navigate into sub-menus.
“With the new Mokka, we bring the Opel Pure Panel to our customers for the first time. Large displays, seamlessly integrated into one horizontal information format, a minimal number of physical controls and clear detoxed digital information, all together create an optimized customer experience”, says Opel Design Vice President Mark Adams.
The next-generation Mokka heralds the Opel models of the 2020s, which the automaker describes as “pure, precise, reduced to the essentials”. According to Opel, the crossover will retain a typical German design language that combines clarity with bold expressiveness. This philosophy will apply to the interior as well as the exterior of the next-generation Mokka.
Based on PSA’s CMP architecture also used on the DS3, the 2021 Mokka will be up to 120 kg lighter than its predecessor, and 16 cm smaller in at least one dimension, and will offer an all-electric variant (the Mokka-e) for the first time.
