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[jereboam]

I really admired my Elite the first time I saw it - I wanted one.  It's all black - it looked like the car Hotblack Desiato would have driven been driven in had he been alive today.

Unfortunately, it belonged to someone else - a colleague.

Three years later, when my patience finally ran out with the Mondeo diesel, I sold it first and started looking for something else - relied on my old LHD Granada till something came along.  And by sheer chance, I happened to mention I was looking for a new car to the aforementioned colleague who said "You can have mine for £2600".  That was a bargain - AutoTrader and Parkers indicated he could have expected £1000 or so more.  He wouldn't take more.  So I bought it, got the dent in the wing and the bashed up door mirror fixed, replaced the rubbish tyres he had on the front, and I haven't regretted my purchase in the nearly three years since.  

So why did you buy yours?

[markey mark]

had a cavvy gsi and needed something bigger and a mate had a tourer going cheap so sold cavvy for £750 and bought tourer for £700 bargain !! never looked back got mv6 and love it !!

[mantahatch]

Just loved the look of them from the moment I saw one 1995. took me to 2003 before I could get one, but boy am I happy with it.

Mike

P.S what is there not to love about them, cheap to buy, rear wheel drive, cheap to run considering the size of it.

[JonArgraig]

Always been a big motor lover, though due to a crappy job I was stuck with a Mondeo Si on HP.

I saw the Omega on flea bay, made the guy a offer, haggled some more once I was there (He said it was a elite, when it was a CDX, I knew from the pics, but used it as a tool to barter with)

I've always loved Omega's and wanted one from a early age.

I prefere the Pre face lift on the inside, but much more like the out sie of the face lift. but as I'll be inside rather than sat on the roof, the pre face lift won

[SteveD]

Bought my first one as a tow car. It's the heaviest, most practical RWD car I could get. Only other option was 4x4 which for the few weeks a year I spend towing just isn't worth it.

Plus they munch miles on the motorway  

[HerefordElite]

Always been a Vauxhall man and liked the idea of a big safe car with loads of toys  -plus if the plod & royal protection use them they can't be that bad (or just coz theyre cheap)

[Olympia5776]

Biggest and most comfortable 2.0 estate I could buy to move to Ireland where the road tax is based on engine size.
Been a GM man for many many years so it fitted in fine. Had it nearly 5 years and never regreted it .
Don

[LJay]

I had a cavalier and loved it! Decided then that i wanted an omega as they were quite rare around here and definately an unusual car for a woman to be driving! Have been asked several times how i manage driving my husbands big car!
They are common as muck round here now, every other taxi is a meega!  
I regretted buying a 2.2 but i love my MV6!

[Debs.]

`Wanted a [size=18]Big[/size] estate.....the Omega had the most space for me (being very tall) and mucho-space for my three dogs.
Had two so far: `started with a 2 litre and then 'graduated' to my present 2.5 litre.
I really-really like my capacious Miggy

[Debs.]

I had a cavalier and loved it! Decided then that i wanted an omega as they were quite rare around here and definately an unusual car for a woman to be driving! Have been asked several times how i manage driving my husbands big car!
They are common as muck round here now, every other taxi is a meega!  
I regretted buying a 2.2 but i love my MV6!

  Gosh, how insulting!.......I hope you had a suitable quip ready in retort!  

[Jimbob]

Only ever owned Estates,

Astra
Astra
Mazda 626
Omega

When I decided I wanted an even bigger estate, there wasnt many places left to go, plus I Liked Ljay's meega, and wanted similar, but higher powered, waited until one came up at the right price, got the train to Yeovil and drove it back!

[Leomas]

I fell into owning one. Had a Rover which had been LPG'd but the bodywork was shot so I decided it would make a brilliant donor vehicle for a Car engined/LPG powered/Tadpole trike. Even had a TV company interested in putting together a show on making it until I struggled to find someone to make up the frame.
Still sat on the drive waiting for the moment and I needed something else running LPG and my local converter said 'Got an Omega...it's an automatic' and I thought that'll do me. It really has been an eye-opener and a daily challenge to use it 'properly' but it is forever rewarding from a surprisingly good mpg to totally over the top comfort to that moment when the numpty ahead sees you in his mirror and thinks 'unmarked police car'. Ah the joys of modern motoring

[Humpy]

I've always been a Vauxhall/Opel man and have had (still got!) Opel Monza's for the last 18 years but I needed a bloody great estate to put a tank in Yup, you heard me, a tank! A model tank agreed but bigger than your average model tank!



I've been playing with model tanks for some years now and a Monza with a high lip at the rear is not the ideal motor for shifting them around in! My everyday motor was getting beyond the joke last year and I'd thought of an Omega Estate as they are huge and very good value. I was idly having a look on Auto-Trader and managed to find one two miles away from my postcode And the rest as they say is history!

Humpy

PS That's not me in the pic, it's the guy that sells them!

[Kevin Wood]

My Dad used to have a Senator, which was rather nice (K293WPC, IIRC  ). I'd always had pretty mundane runabouts but started to think back to the Senny and how comfy and effortless it was. Also started to realise that it was going to be "now or never" the way things were going with fuel prices and the like so I had been mulling over the idea of an Omega when I just went out one day and chopped in my old Laguna for one.  

SWMBO was shocked as I generally NEVER do anything on impulse (OK, I had been thinking about this for a few months but that's impulse for me.) Can honestly say I've never looked back.

It's also nice to have a car with a following. I've been used to this with kit cars where there's a great community of friends I've met through the internet and events, etc. I'm glad to have done the same through my day to day car too. It was never going to happen owning a Laguna, that's for sure.

Kevin

[Kieran]

Bloody hell that tank is massive . Does it really fire and the tracks move?