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[0795omega]

i had a retail vxr year or so ago was awsome fast car in a straight line,but as jeremy clakson said on top gear not that great at handling,funnily enough sold my blue 3.2 mv6 for it,sold it 6 months later and bought another 3.2 mv6 identical to the one sold for the vectra!!

[05omegav6]

And most have never seen the road in anger, having been CID/CI/Protection cars

 


If only you knew!!! 

Indeed, Surreys pool cars, mostly Fiestas, are pretty raggedy considering the supposedly light use they get...

Beat cars do get absolutely hammered, but generally only by one driver per shift... Best buy is a Marked car with the best bodywork at the auction... It will cost you but not as much as the traders would charge you if you hadn't priced them out of the bidding... My Omega as an example cost me £1,800, when a similar car at the same auction fetched only £900

[05omegav6]

This is no vxr, its a 2.8t elite looking at the wheels, that said the interior would suggest an sri trim but it's no vxr and as said above would be the 240bhp, they may have it chipped but that again is a bit of a story told many times. The police will buy a vxr or vrs ect and use them for traffic ect but this is simply a 2.8t any joe can buy and there are better examples out there.

All 'dangle berries'...

The Octavia Vrss they use are genuine Vrss...

Vauxhall take a base spec shell and fit whatever engine fleet managers request along with the biggest brakes, again if requested... Inthe case of the Vectra C that means base spec plus xenons, Gsi brakes on the 3.2, vxr ones on the 2.8 and Sri ones on the diesels... All fitted with 17" wheels to clear the brakes whilst keeping tyre costs down... Early ones get sri wheels, later ones the Elites shown.

The standard plod V6 special is the full fat version regardless of engine,  so 3.2 is Gsi mechanicals, the 2.8 is predominantly the 280 VXR without the trimmings, and the 1.9 is the 150Cdti in Sri tune. The Vec C special also came with the option of either 2.2 petrol or 2.0 petrol turbo, but both are rare beasts. Someof the latest diesels have the full fat 3.0 v6 lump again with Vxr brakes...

Plod cars make excellent projects as they are a blank canvas, and when you consider the options available on the Vectra C/Signum, you can build your own car to a unique spec.

[Marks DTM Calib]

So whats the difference with an ex police vxr and one sold to the public new  Is the police one chipped to go faster 

In many cases, plod is twin turbo

Nah there not, the 2.8 is twin scroll, you cant fit a twin turbo as there isn't the room.