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It's a new model with a new name and it doesn't replace anything. Step forward then the Opel Meriva that is just about to go on Irish sale, writes Andrew Hamilton.

If Opel's expectations are right, it will be replicating the appeal-and success-of a bigger Opel MPV sibling, the Zafira. Meriva is also of the MPV ilk and in its internal packaging, it amazingly manages to break new boundaries.