The impressive, versatile, new Vauxhall Meriva is such a car; it instantly looks different but you’re not sure how. It looks neat, compact and workmanlike. Two things play on your mind; it seems simultaneously both large and small, and the fact that the rear passenger doors are the “wrong” way, round, opening backwards not forwards. They are the signature style statement on the Meriva, underlying family-friendly credentials. What else is new for 2014?