- Olga Kokorina
- Translated by Olga Apetenok
- Ru He Fr
Compact Grand
In 2021, the Grandland X underwent significant restyling and lost the letter ‘X’ in its name.
The Opel Grandland X is a compact SUV by Opel (Germany), officially unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2017. In Israel, the first generation SUV comes in three versions: with a petrol engine, a diesel engine and a hybrid system (as of 2021).
The Grandland X is the third SUV in the Opel range after Mocca X and Crossland X, which received the letter X in the name. The compact SUV is built on the PSA EMP2 platform and is a relative of the second generation front-wheel drive Peugeot 3008 SUV. The Grandland X is the second Opel model developed in collaboration with the French. It competes with the Volkswagen Tiguan.
The first generation
It has been produced from 2017 to the present (as of 2021). Despite the prefix ‘grand’ in the name, the car is not that big. It is 4,477 mm long, 1,844 mm wide and 1,636 mm high. Its wheelbase reaches 2,675 mm. The volume of the trunk is 514 liters, and if you fold the second row seats, it turns out to be 1,652 liters. Again, despite the title of an SUV, the car is front-wheel drive, with the exception of the hybrid version.
The petrol (1.2 liter turbo direct fuel injection engine) and diesel versions (1.5 liter turbo engine) don’t have an all-wheel drive due to their platform. In difficult driving situations, the driver is assisted by the Grip Control system (again, hello from Peugeot). It adapts the on-board electronics for different road surfaces and has five modes: Normal, Snow, Mud, Sand and ESP Off.
The interior of the Grandland is created in the same style as that of other Opels: there is a recognizable climate control unit and a familiar multimedia system. Interestingly, the ‘old school’ dashboard is pointer. The vehicle has inductive charging for phones, as well as heated seats in both rows and heated steering wheel. The equipment includes an all-round vision system and adaptive head optics with LEDs. The taillights are also LED, there is an extensive set of electronic assistants, which, however, are now becoming commonplace even on inexpensive cars: adaptive cruise control with pedestrian recognition, a parking assistant with all-round cameras, opening/closing the boot lid with foot movement under the rear bumper.
Hybrid version
The Grandland X is Opel’s second production plug-in hybrid after the short-lived Ampera (a copy of the Chevrolet Volt). The SUV is equipped with a 1.6-liter PureTech turbo four-cylinder engine, boosted to 200 hp. The 8-speed automatic transmission has a wet clutch package instead of a torque converter, and an electric motor is installed behind it. The same engine is located on the rear axle, for which it was necessary to replace the standard semi-independent multi-link suspension. The result is the only all-wheel drive Grandland X. The peak output of the system is as much as 300 hp. This makes the vehicle the most powerful Opel in the current range.
The lithium-ion battery is located under the backseat and does not affect the volume of the trunk. A 13.2 kWh battery provides a drive range of 50 km (according to WLTP). You can choose between on-board chargers with a capacity of 3.3 or 6.6 kW. And with the branded Wallbox device (7.4 kW), you can recharge the battery in just 1 hour and 50 minutes. In addition to purely electric mode, there are three more driving modes: Hybrid, Sport (sharpened for maximum output) and ‘off-road’ AWD. And the recuperation system allows you to control acceleration and deceleration ‘in one pedal’, as is customary today with electric cars.
