My sister and her bf just picked up a LandRover Discovery (in spite of my advice against, pisstaking, and indeed 15-minute tour of the "rust spots of Great Britain's Cars").
The garage it was at, Roslyn Car Sales or something like that in Weegietown, had a reasonable-looking but a bit scruffy inside, LHD Carlton. Of the Lotus variety. £9,995.
I was more interested in the pair of W124 Coupes.
Richard
You mean this one:
At that price even I get interested.
David
steering wheel is on the wrong side :( i used to love them! not so keen on it now though.
Pah! You soon get used to LHD, it's not really a problem with that much power, anyway. The advantage is that when you park up outside the paper shop you get out on the pavement :-)
hmmm never thought of that, i still dream of a corvette Z06 so i'll keep that in mind as a plus if i ever had the £20-30k to get a spanking new-ish one imported :)
Damned... I even get very interested! And the steering wheel is at the right side!!
Enlighten me please: I thought LHD was only for America and Continental Europe, So should it be a Lotus Carlton and not a Lotus Omega?
To Richard: did you see the car? Was there rust at the rear wheel arches? Odo in miles or km?
Ohhh I have to mail Roslyn Car Sales... a similar Lotus Omega just sold in Austria (Wien) for 14500 Eur, that's about 2500 Eur (1600 UKP) more expensif than that one.
Bugger: I have to stop looking at this newsgroup :)
Tom - soft spot for the Lotus Carlton / Omega- De Moor
i'd love it but only as a second car as there getting more rare than rocking horse shit, actually i think i see more rocking horse shit around the place than lotus carltons :)
It'll be a Lotus Omega, there's a few for sale here
Wasn't there an issue with certain consumables no longer being made for the Lotus Carlton ? Important things like Clutches etc ?
Chet ?
Never meet your heroes.......
Peter
They were AFAIK - I'm guessing this was imported at some point or another.
Nope, all LHD versions of the car that us Brits know as a late shape (Mk3) Carlton, were called Omegas. It's the funny way GM gave Opel the latest model names to use before Vauxhall - late shape Nova was a Mk1 Opel Corsa. Astras, well, I think it was the opposite with them actually - they were Opel Kadetts (sp?) up until what we call the Mk3 Astra, which was, I think, the first "Opel Astra". I know the Mk3 Cav was called an Opel Vectra, etc etc.
Peter
if I hadn't spanked all my money on a house this afternoon, I would have been there and got it :)
That's what secured loans are for :-)
Peter
It should be a Lotus Omega; it's an import.
Rear arches looked sound, but I didn't look thoroughly - paintwork looked 'aged', interior looked a little scruffy around the ashtray/centre console. If you're seriously interested in it, email them and I will happily go and inspect the car for you, give it a test drive and so forth ;)
Richard
I know I shouldn't but still I am going to mail them :)
If it's a real 1992, it should be one of the latest - and slightly better- Lotus Omega.
You don't remember mileage (should be km) or production number, do you?
There is a small chance we'll meet, Richard: that is if the missus doesn't find out about the car, in which case I could end up in hospital before I even get on the plane for Scotland. ;-)
Tom
Eh? They launched them in 1992, on a K plate over here, which started in August. And possibly ran them until some time in 1993. So unless they launched it earlier in Europe, 1992 is, if anything, one of the earlier ones, not later.
Peter
finding £111,512 in an afternoon has proved a little difficult, especially as it's most of the money I have in my pockets and bank accounts and down the back of the sofa and wot people owe me, etc not to mention lots of mortgage on top of that bloody houses, why can't they be cheap :(
*thud*
Only £30k left to pay off :-)
Nope, I think you are mistaken.
About 950 Lotus Carlton/Omega's were build. Pre-production and show models also received a production number so in reality only 930 were sold and consequently registered. First registrations: 1990
Cars 438 tot 799 were made in 1992, some of which were registered in 1993-1994 ( they didn't sell that well)
Cars 800-950 were made in 1993.
Upgrades on the later cars were the new bellhousing of the gearbox which was prone to cracking on the first models.
Been extremely tempted before by a Lotus Omega but decided then to buy Japanese (car I still have and like a lot) when I discovered rot at the rear wheel arches on a car 3 years old and "always" garaged/ maintained to the highest level.
However the Lotus Omega sticks and refuses to let go: I drove one as a test between Koln and Frankfurt ( almost 1 tank content of fuel) and that was a standard car. It is one of the fastest times (55 min) I have on that 208 km- journey.
Imagine about 500 HP in the old shape "Omega": that's stuff to blow Mercedes AMG, M5 and Porsche GT2 cleanly off the road, all that with an anonimous car...
Ah, temptation mixed with fear (of death and high bills, I don't know in which order) : addictif...
Tom De moor
Ah, didn't know that.
Ho yuss. You're preaching to the converted here :-) I quite fancy the Lotus Carlton Estate someone on autobahnstormers.co.uk has!
LOL
Peter
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