The Zafira is a people carrier or MPV, featuring seven seats that can be folded away easily to create more space, individually or together. At the time of its introduction, this was considered revolutionary, with most similar cars requiring that extra seats are physically removed from the vehicle if not required.
The car is based on the same platform as the 1998Astra and shares much in common with that car.
Opel exhibit a fuel cell concept car based on the Zafira for the first time to the general public at the Geneva International Motor Show 2000.
Opel showed its first experimental vehicle powered by this extremely environmentally compatible technology at the Geneva Automobile Show in 1997, and a second vehicle - based on the current Zafira - at the Paris Motor Show in 1998.
The Zafira stack has a maximum output of 80 kW, generated by the 195 single cells in the block at a process temperature of about 80°C. Their electric current is supplied to a 55 kW, three-phase, AC synchronous electric motor, which drives the front wheels through fixed ratio gears.
With its natural gas-fueled Zafira 1.6 CNG (Compressed Natural Gas), Opel is presenting a particularly environmentally friendly and economical vehicle at the "Bo01 City of Tomorrow" project that opened on May 17, 2001, in the Swedish city of Malmö.
The Opel compact van is the official car for this living European project representing the model city of the future.
The Zafira CNG has a power output of 74 kW/100 hp and a maximum torque of 150 Newton meters (exactly the same as the Zafira 1.6 16 V with a gasoline engine, on which it is based).
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