Opel Lotus Omega/Carlton specs

The Beetlejuice of cars.

Vauxhall-Lotus 'The Bumble' Carlton - Timed acceleration results from video below:

0-50 km/h-> 2.0 seconds
0-100 km/h-> 3.4 seconds
0-160 km/h-> 6.8 seconds
0-200 km/h-> 9.2 seconds
0-250 km/h-> 13.8 seconds
0-300 km/h-> 21.1 seconds
0-320 km/h-> 25.1 seconds

0-30 mph-> 1.9 seconds
0-60 mph-> 3.3 seconds
0-100 mph-> 6.9 seconds
0-150 mph-> 12.9 seconds
0-200 mph-> 25.5 seconds

1/8-mile: 7.8 seconds at 110 mph
1/4-mile: 11.2 seconds at 137 mph
1/2-mile: 15.7 seconds at 167 mph
1 kilometer: 19.5 seconds at 177 mph
1 mile: 27.0 seconds at 204 mph

NOTE: +/- three-tenths of a second

Vauxhall-Lotus 'The Bumble' Carlton ACCELERATION 0-355 km/h (686 hp)

I just found out about this car and mannnn
382ps in a sedan in 1989!!!
568 NM!!!!!
Definitely the Tesla Plaid and the M5 CS of the time combined :)

A few years back, I thought this was the Dodge Charger Hellcat of its day. Now that Stellantis (FCA) took Opel away from GM, I was right. An American transmission inside of a German sedan, rather than vice versa though..

Pretty fast for a sedan from the 1980s.

Yeah only the diff was reliable
(that was borrowed from Holden)

377 ps not bhp

it's GERMAN-UK car

its german, not uk

@RockketPunch

thats not correct, there was the Alpina B10 (hit the market in 1989 and was produced till 1994) which was a 360hp super sedan and the B10 reached in a direct compare 26km/h higher topseed than the Lotus Omega. The B10 lost the crow as the fastest sedan to the 1996 Brabus E V12...other than the unreliable Lotus Omega which was filled up with electronic, electric, engine, transmission and clutch failurs the Alpina B10 was a trouble free reliable car.

Lotus was completely overtaxed by building the Lotus Omega that are the words by a GM/Opel manager after they realised the poor reliability ... and the huge trouble Opel was facing becase of the Lotus Omega... there was a joke in the Lotus Omega owner circle, you need to change your engine/tranny/clutch more often in a Lotus Omega than you need to change the oil in a Astra..

yah once the owner of the B&B hotel we went to had one of these it was HOT

10.6sec 0-100mph as tested by EVO magazine issue 131

^^ I meant in North America, as the R32 was not sold in NA.

I recall drooling over this car when I was a kid. That kind of performance for a four door sedan was unheard of back in 89. That was the time before the NSX, and (probably) the fastest car from Japan at that time was a Mazda FC Turbo II with a 0-60 time of 6.5s...LOL.

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thats actually not a bad car itself but i think they should start from scratch ya know complitly new body resembling the 90;s one, just more retro-ish...lol but yeah i do see a resemblance from the vxr8..lol

Well it is back already in the form of the Vauxhall/Opel/Holden VXR8

a new 2010 version would be nice for lotus. im thinkin somewhat of bout 450 hp in a new model if they ever decieded to bring it back..lol but damn that sure is fast for the 90's...specialy for a sedan/saloon..

I have corrected the acceleration numbers to the one that sportauto tested in the early 90´s and renamed it in Opel/Vauxhall Omega/Carlton.. both cars are absloutly identical based on the Opel Omega A beefed up by Lotus.. sold under both brands. The largest part of the production was sold as Lotus Opel Omega. The car still ranks in the top 10 of the fastest production 4 door saloons of all time.