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General Car Chat / Lotus Turbo IRS

« on: 28 December 2014, 06:58:16 »

I knew the 1990 Lotus Turbo had a modified IRS, but I recently found out it was actually a multi-link setup instead of the crude Opel IRS. Presumably that was a bit scary at 290 km/h.
Therefore they must have customised the underbelly quite a bit.  I haven't found any pictures of the Lotus IRS.  Does anybody know where I might find some?
 

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General Car Chat / Re: why did GM kill the Omega?

« on: 05 September 2014, 13:42:24 »

We haven't had the Omega C yet!

2 years ago, there was gossip of an "Omega C" which is a rebadged Cadillac XTS (Epsilon 2 platform).
Was it an April Fool's joke?  It is the same platform as an Insignia already in Opel showrooms for years.
Why revive the name with something so contrary? 

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General Car Chat / Lotus Turbo 300 km/h ?

« on: 04 September 2014, 11:53:32 »

Three on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BidORVq6bk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CIWxoVUAtc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_fqb1KxOQc
Show speedo reaching maximum 300.
I know in Germany they can drive any speed on the autobahn, but that one at night is crazy.
The maximum speed is supposed to be 283 km/h.
Getting to 300 would need a lot more power, unless they did these runs with a strong tail wind.
Otherwise, they put on tyres with smaller rolling radius so the speedo shows more than ground speed, or even opened up the instrument cluster and fiddled the speedo.

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General Car Chat / Re: Looking for a unique orange Omega ? If so your in luck.

« on: 31 August 2014, 14:08:37 »

It looks very like a Holden/Lumina Ute from about 1995:

(bit bigger mind) Shouldn't be in this hemisphere though.

Actually that body is early noughties.  And it had IRS - the only RWD ute on the planet to do so.

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General Car Chat / why did GM kill the Omega?

« on: 31 August 2014, 13:56:46 »

It sold 800,000 which is hardly a failure.  I presume GM was not willing to invest in an upgrade.
Yet Holden continued with the V-platform for a few years longer, and in a smaller market.