mr c
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Did they know you were racing them ?
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CorsaSRi16v
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
And they do 170mph
No try 176MPH 
They get there pretty quick as well. As I found out in my Dad's when he took it to 160MPH with me in  (Private road)
They are 3.6 twin turbo.
[Edited on 13-03-2003 by CorsaSRi16v]
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Matty Hall
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Still look like waardrobes on wheels though. 
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Phil Hall
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quote:
Originally posted by Ojc
And they do 170mph
176
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stuyw
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in the book 0-60 is 5.2 secs i think 
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OFcorsa
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Was it red? there is a bolding bloke who drives one at my location and it is the proper job!
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stuyw
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didnt know they made them in red
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Pablo
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Mental - Bet they were more suprised than you were!!
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OFcorsa
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you do now!
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3CorsaMeal
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Take it u've run the engine in now then
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J a m e s
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only came in BRG
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OFcorsa
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whats to say that he never had a respray cos some twat thought he could beat him in a race but managed to ram him?
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Gambit
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quote:
Originally posted by J a m e s
only came in BRG
err...apparently so
[Edited on 13-03-2003 by Gambit]
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Avey
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Registered: 4th Sep 02
Location: North West, Drives:Cosmic Grey CTR
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Stuyw, did u ever see the 1 that Tommy Pownall owns ?
My mates dad used 2 always drive it, fookin hell does it shift
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3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by Gambit
quote:
Originally posted by J a m e s
only came in BRG
err...apparently so
[Edited on 13-03-2003 by Gambit]
 i didn't know that either, although my m8's dad was the main boss in vauxhall advertising and the first one was blue.
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Kerry
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i want one i know that much
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StuartGee
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They were a dark ass green, that looked black all the time until the sun shone on it.
Girlfriends dad is the only fully trained Lotus mechanic in north scotland, and told me how he managed to spin the wheels in fourth after booting it in the wet!!
[Edited on 13-03-2003 by StuartGee]
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StuartGee
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Random Facts about Lotus Carlton:
Fastest production car Lotus ever built.
Has more torque at 2000rpm than a Ferrari F50 at full tilt.
If it managed to reach the red line in sixth gear, you would be doing about 250mph, or there abouts!!
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Ojc
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176mph, 170mph.
Slow
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Kerry
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ive always wanted one
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stuyw
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Location: North West Drives: Rev3 MR2 Turbo
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avey - yeah m8 wasn't he a bouncer who owned it??
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StuartGee
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As scarce as hens teeth!
Nice buy if you can find one though, as they are almost guaranteed a standard motor, not much else you can do to the engine to improve whats already been done by Lotus, and they will have been cherished by their owners as if they were one of the family!
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stuyw
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Registered: 15th May 02
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more likely 2 find them wrapped in cotton wool than see 1 on the road 
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Avey
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He used 2 run most of the Bouncers around the Wigan area, think he's out soon! He got sent down for Firearms, drugs & various other offences
He's also got an imported Yank Ford fun bus thing with about £30k's worth of ICE from K&M, thats 1 serious bit of kit
[Edited on 13-03-2003 by Avey]
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Darren M
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Registered: 22nd Mar 01
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nothing on the road would beat it.
'They are all Black' . Wrong but an understandable mistake. All production cars are Imperial Green, which is a very dark green and looks black in anything but direct sunlight. Some of the pre-production cars were other colours, mostly silver, but these are not officially Lotus Carltons/Omegas, but are converted GSi3000's . Any car that isn't Imperial Green has either been resprayed, or it isn't a real LC.
'1100 cars were produced'. Wrong. It is true that the original plan was for 1100 cars, but when the recession struck in the early 90's it proved impossible to sell all of these £48000 cars. In the end, the last 150 cars were never built. It is interesting that most if not alll of these (according to James Waddingtons web-site) should have been RHD UK spec cars (i.e. Vauxhall Lotus Carltons). The original plan was for 440 UK cars to be built, but in the end, only 284 were sold (plus 2 RHD examples to Singapore), so it was Vauxhall that let the side down, not Opel.
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