Published:
29 July 2024As with the Mokka’s exterior styling, the cockpit is adventurous by its maker’s habitual conservative standard.
While some of the ways in which it catches your eye ultimately do the car’s overall chances of impressing more harm than good, it ends up looking and feeling almost as much of a departure from within as it does from without.
Having first lifted your feet over the car’s trip hazard of a sill (something we’ve noted about every car we’ve tested on this platform to date), you settle into a medium-high-set seat, and in front of an appealing, materially rich and varied dashboard.
An integrated-looking duo of digital infotainment and instrumentation screens sweeps across behind the steering wheel and into the upper centre stack. Vauxhall calls this its ‘Pure Panel’: an attempt to notionally claim as its own a design convention that’s becoming quite common among the latest models being launched.
Within it, you get a pair of 7.0in screens in entry-level cars, expanding to 10.0in for the infotainment system and 12.0in for the digital dials on top-of-the-line Mokkas.
The thinking is that by surrounding both configurations in gloss black plastic, both better fit into the cabin architecture around them; and perhaps they do, although if you don’t like cars with lots of gloss black plastic, you’re unlikely to take to it.
