Opel Zafira

Opel Zafira

The Zafira is a car from General Motors, branded as an Opel in Europe, except for the UK, where it is branded as a Vauxhall. It is badged as a Holden in Australia, a Chevrolet in South America and Thailand (where it is also built) and as the Subaru Traviq in Japan. The car first appeared in 1999.

The Zafira is a people carrier or MPV, featuring seven seats arranged in 3 rows, the back row of which 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 1998 Astra and shares much in common with that car.

It was subject to an extremely contraversial advert in which 3 children and their parents reversed roles. The controversy derived from the last line where the three kids say something in unison. They say "Ooooh, they're tired" but many internet forums are raging with the debate "oooh they're tired" or "overtired" and in some cases the debate was reduced to wanton abuse of users.

In March 2006 a fiery debate ensued as to the identity of the phrase on OTF. After much discussion it was decided that 'Overtired' was the spoken line and not 'Oh they're tired'.

External links

• Used Vauxhall Zafira information