The Opel Mokka is one of those crossovers that doesn’t seem to get a ton of coverage but does have a reasonably steady stream of buyers happy to take one home. Though it only ranked 29th in last year’s list of Europe’s biggest sellers, it was the 10th best-selling car in the UK (where it wears Vauxhall branding) during 2023.
And maybe Opel is happy with those
positions because it doesn’t appear to have any drastic visual changes planned
for the facelift. Our first sighting of the revised car shows a prototype whose
profile and rear end look identical to the car currently on sale. The Opel and
Mokka badges on the rear hatch are covered, which could mean they’re getting a
makeover, but they could simply be obscured because that’s what automakers do
when they’re testing secret future products on public roads.
This leaves the front end, and considering
how extensive the camo wrap is here, there must be some tweaks hiding
underneath. Since we can still make out the shape of the nose and the vizor face,
the changes must be limited to a reprofiled bumper. The hockey stick-shaped DRL
signature in the lights looks exactly like the one on today’s Mokka but Opel
might sub in some newer lights closer to the reveal. Bearing in mind that the
current car was unveiled in June 2020 and went on sale at the very tail end of
that year, we can’t be too far away from that reveal now.
During the last year and a bit, Opel has
upgraded the drivetrain of both the Mokka Electric and the ICE-powered version
you see here, so we’re not expecting any major underhood advances for the
facelift. The EV gained 20 hp, taking its output to 154 hp,
while range improved to 406 km via a bigger 54 kWh battery, and the
petrol lineup received Stellantis’s 136 PS mild-hybrid 1.2 triple
that’s also found in the recently facelifted version of the Mokka’s cousin, the
Peugeot 2008.
