Every year, leading advertisers double down on their imagination and creativity celebrate 1^Er April. On the part of car manufacturers, Opel presented on Saturday a very interesting Opel Corsa, capable of going to the moon. Very few automotive brands have so far embarked on space or lunar adventures. Tesla, and this is not a hoax, for example, has already sent one of its models into space. Elon Msuk’s former roadster is now orbiting the Earth, sent there a few years ago by a SpaceX launch vehicle. More seriously, manufacturers have joined forces with space agencies to develop lunar ships. ago Toyota presented its concept called Lunar Cruiser in partnership with JAXA in Japan. It should eventually allow people and equipment to be transported to the moon. Nissan did the same with the autonomous Rover still under development. Finally, from the Korean side, Hyundai presented its car Tiger X-1.

A month-long expedition on an Opel Corsa

In a completely different register, Opel imagined what a car capable of flying to the moon could look like. And the small city car Corsa served as the basis! Under the sober name “Corsa Moon”, it is equipped several fantasy (fictitious) attributes and technologies. Externally, it has a funny appearance of all-wheel drive excessively protruding wheels and increased ground clearance with footrests. Opel equipped it with tinted windows to block sunlight. Speaking of which, the little chip from Rüsselsheim is equipped on the back four large retractable photovoltaic panels. So that it is constantly fed by the sun’s rays. They give energy a 500kWh electric battery (sorry for not much), which should provide a range of 7,000 kilometers ! Well, these aren’t real-world driving calculations like the famous WLTP cycle, but a Moon-specific cycle called ULTP for the Worldwide Harmonized Light Duty Test Procedure.

4X4, solar, technological

Projectors are also capable of the craziest shows. They are called Intelli-Lux and work using laser technology a thousand times brighter than ordinary terrestrial LEDs. Enough to see far on the surface of the moon! On board Opel can boast a new 100% digital cockpit built into the windshield. This allows the driver to have access to all useful information, as well as driver assistance modules. So that you are not disturbed during extreme driving in gorges or sinkholes. Communication with the Earth is carried out through broadband satellite integrated into the body. Houston, can you hear me? This joke, which made us smile, did not come out of nowhere. As early as 1997, the brand introduced the Corsa Moon, a very real vehicle to imagine driving on the moon. This “Moon II” is a successful reinterpretation of it, but what unfortunately, will not have a physical prototype.