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[JiMbOb789]

Hey, i was thinking the other day about the last ever omega made. Does anyone know how fast it was or have any pictures of it. i heard that the last car made of any model is always something special and fast. i have had a look but i couldn't find anything.
Does anyone know anything or have any pictures?
Jamie   8-)

[davlad22]

Very likely to be a plod machine! 3.2 I expect!?! Seriously, the latest registered cars I have seen are '54 cars. Anybody on here got a late registered motor?

[Sonic_Boom]

The lastest i've ever seen is a 53 and that was white with the blue light option.
Rich

[Danny]

I saw an 04 one for sale not too long ago, and there's one on trader now for £8k

[DaveL]

I saw an 04 one for sale not too long ago, and there's one on trader now for £8k

Sound like a good buy for some one. Bruce mentioned that he thought that Grampian Plitzie had some un-reg in storage. £.2 auto's I seem to remember.

 8-)
DaveL

[robby30]

as a plod member the last cars we have are 54 plate 3.2's we orderd loads of them as they went out of production as there was no alternative car they just sat at our workshops unregistered for over a year
only a few left on the fleet
ended up with bloody vectras and now diesel vectras
whats the world coming too?

[Tony H]

as a plod member the last cars we have are 54 plate 3.2's we orderd loads of them as they went out of production as there was no alternative car they just sat at our workshops unregistered for over a year
only a few left on the fleet
ended up with bloody vectras and now diesel vectras
whats the world coming too?

Do you have the 3.2 vectra and if so what do you think of it?

[davlad22]

The newer diesel Vectras are quite fast though  :-/

[edwardmickey]

The newer diesel Vectras are quite fast though  :-/

I see you're joking - and every reason to.  They're the biggest pile of sh1te.  Total embarassment!  

[davlad22]

 

Oooh eck, what have I said now!?! And I wasn't even here to defend meself!?!

Fast as in, for a diesel! There's a 3.0V6 Diesel, and the 150hp 1.9 is pretty pokey (at least it is in an astra!) !?! Surely  :-?

[robby30]

Do you have the 3.2 vectra and if so what do you think of it?[/quote]


We do have a few of them, they are not brilliant, use much more fuel than the omega and break down a lot more often clutches go and they tramline badly in first and second.
the VXR is much better in terms of performance and roadholding but when driven hard they warp manifolds and you cannot get the parts for them. my car was off the road for almost 2 months waiting for the bits!
and the 3.0 diesel is bloody awful! good for caravaning not much use catching the baddies
a new diesel is due apparently thank god

[Paul M]

The problem with Vectras is that they've got bloody awful handling, I've been on passenger ferries that can turn quicker.

Clarkson summed it up perfectly when test driving the 2.7 turbo versions -- "I don't know why they fit a steering wheel to this thing, it doesn't do anything!".

Hideous car IMO, I wouldn't mind a 4-door Vectra B GSi as a runaround as they're quite cheap and look pretty decent, but the Vectra C is just a joke of a car that's also hideously ugly to boot -- if it weren't for hugely discounted fleet purchases, GM Europe would be out of business peddling junk like that.

[telecom joe]

hi guys, in answer to late cars ,,, ive got a 2.2 auto cdx saloon on a march -03 reg plate it was the official "mayor of chester"s car with blacked out rear glass ,extra tinted fronts and fitted rear parks ,looks as cool as ice, and drives as smooth as a belly dancers navel, emmm

[davlad22]

^^^^^^^^^^^^
 

Is it black Joe? Would be great to see some pictures  

[Rebel1]

Don't know about the last ever Omega, although wouldn't be surprised if, as posted further up, they were indeed all bought up by plod (they did the same when the Rover SD1 went out of production), but have seen the last ever Ford Cortina made, it used to be kept in the Ford heritage museum next door to the Dagenham plant, and despite only having 17 miles on the clock and having spent all it's life indoors, it still had rust on the edge of the bootlid  

Drove a 3.2 Elite Vectra for a long w/e when Vx were doing 48 hour test drives...when doing 80-ish on the m/way the car had a strange, slow, back-and-forth pitching motion, a bit like a boat in a storm...