Vauxhall Omega was sold in the UK between 1994 and 2003, and there are two main reasons: 1. It is used as a police car; 2. Everyone has one or two friends’ dads driving Omega. For those intermediate executives who don’t have the money to buy BMW or Jaguar, the Omega was the one who dreamed of back then, and it was once released in the name of Cadillac Catera between 1996 and 2001, so you may have one or two American friends’ dads who drove the American version of the Omega.
Omega's style was written by Wayne Cherry. The American designer played for Opel/Vauxhall in the 1980s, and during which he designed a whole generation of cars that fans still remembered. Examples of them are Calibra, Corsa and Tigra. Later, this man returned to the United States to produce a lot of new models for General Motors, which was indeed amazing.
In the late 1990s, at that time, World Wide Web was popular all over the world, and everyone was eager to board the information expressway and was running lightning. No matter what, adding ".com" to the name will naturally look avant-garde. So this high-tech concept called Opel Omega V8.com appeared at the 1999 Frank Auto Show.
To be fair, this concept car does not rely solely on crappy screens and three gimmick equipment to support the scene. Omega V8.com is actually a mobile office, and there is even a mobile Internet hotspot on the car so that passengers can view emails at any time or use the so-called MP3 player to play music downloaded from the Internet. Thanks to the extension of the wheelbase by 130mm, this car is very spacious, with particularly abundant legroom in the rear seats, and all the four seats in the front and rear are equipped with 9.5-inch LCD screens for passengers to check emails or browse the few websites in 1999. In addition, the camera that facilitates passengers to conduct video conferencing is also a very avant-garde supplement. Ha, it’s really a pity that they can think of such a far-fetched gimmick.
The most exciting part of this concept car is actually the 5.7-liter small cylinder V8 that is hardly stuffed into the front of the car. This pushrod engine from GM's parts library has a horsepower of more than 300bhp, and the Chevrolet Corvette was also used during the same period. The computer gadgets of Omega V8.com may be just technological tricks, but the factory has formulated a big plan for this engine.
Just a few months later, the quasi-production Omega equipped with a 5.7-liter monster-class engine was unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2000. Logically speaking, this RV should be a beast that can swallow autobahn. Unfortunately, during the mass production test of 32 finished products, Opel found that it was not autobahn, but Omega that was swallowed. Due to the reliability problems, these Omegas failed to meet the requirement of full throttle opening, and the production plan suddenly failed; it was a nightmare like a fake.com replacement.
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