Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: EMD on 10 April 2015, 21:39:03
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Yes im guilty ::) Why do some of us always come back to Omega ownership , this is my 6th one ;D ;D ;D Everything else just dont cut the mustard ::)
Having avoided the fl for some time i finally took the plunge and must admit its the best Omega so far :y
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I've only had one, but I'll have had it for 9 years in July and I'd never had a car much longer than 18 months before the Omega! :y
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Three. All of which have been the superior facelift model. :y
.....and all with the correct amount of cylinders. :y
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I'm on my second estate and bought them purely for their weight. I needed a hefty kerb weight for towing our caravan and the Omega was one of the heaviest cars at the time. In twenty five years of caravanning with various cars the Omega's have proven to be very stable tow cars. No other reason for me, I'm not even loyal to Vauxhall, they just happened to make a very heavy car that suited my needs. :)
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The Omega just seems so solidly built compared to the rest , and as for the drive and comfort its unbeatable for the money . I was once told its a poor mans Merc ::) Im keeping this till im 90 now ;D
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I'm in my 4th......2 cdx and 2 elite.....love the power and comfort.....for me best car going :y
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Because Capris are no longer affordable, and I now want a comfortable cruiser.
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Yep, certainly a comfortable place to be. I bought both of mine when they were just nine months old so I've lost a small fortune. May as well hang on to it for as long as I can now.
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We have had an Omega In the family since 2000, need to replace current saloon for an Estate at some point though, since the Jeep went, we don't have a good load lugger..... ;) ;)
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Have just realised that I am also on my sixth :o although I do still have my third one...
For me the Omega is the car that the Scorpio should have been... when I bought my first one in 2005 it seemed a natural successor to the Mk3 Granada.
Never fancied a prefacelift one, and whilst the saloons are a smidgen more refined, the estate is a bloody good all rounder, and imho better proportioned...
My estates have outnumbered the saloon 5:1, which is the polar opposite to the official sales, and four have been 3.2s, tother two were a shortlived 2.0 16v CD manual estate and an almost as shortlived 2.2 Sport auto saloon.
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Still keeping my three .......no question about that BUT.......my head has been turned a little, towards the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat,4 doors with a 200+ mph capability....ummm :-\
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Had my first one (pfl) for over seven years, when it was time to replace looked high and low and decided that the only replacement for the Omega was, another Omega. Will be sad when the dwindling supply finally runs oul. :'(
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I have 2, owned the v6 2.6cd since 2004 when it was 8 months old, and its been reliable obviously with at least routine annual maintenance, and lpg conversion in 2004 has made it economical as well. A really comfortable, and super motorway cruiser.Alas, its time is nearly due and it has had to step aside for an electric hybrid , but because I also have a 3.2 manual V6 special - this I am keeping for the driving pleasure, and trusty old reubens red will live on as a donor
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It was i car that i had overlooked on several occasions, until my new neighbour arrived with the CDX, on a 53 plate. I then started to look at them in more detail and hence the recent purchase.
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For me, it comes down to value for money, comfort, space, and being rear wheel drive ;D
Oh and not being a BMW, Mercedes or Audi, is a bit more exclusive and rare!
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In the last 7 years I have changed my car 6 times.....5 omegas ,all 2.2 and one 1800 cc vauxhall astra mk4 automatic elegance....with sat nav ..disc changer and all the rest of the bells...although a nice car,just was not the same so sold it and come back to another omega my eleventh in all....I cant find any other car that gives me the same comfort and reliability of my omega....although i must admit i do tend to do loads on them to get them running nicely and them get so bored that i sell them,,more often at a loss and then move on to the next omega....out of the 5 that i have recently had one one peed me off so much because of the heater would not work and i got so fed up of freezing my toes off and no matter what i did it never cured the problem so last month i took off loads of parts to keep as spares for my latest one and then scrapped the damn thing.. :y :D
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I've had two since 2009. I sold mine last summer but now looking for another!
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I only ever had one ...... the better looking MFL :y
When I wanted a car to look like an Astra G .... I bought an Astra G ::)
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I only ever had one ...... the better looking MFL :y
When I wanted a car to look like an Astra G .... I bought an Astra G ::)
I always thought that andy ;D But a subtle plain sports grill makes it look very nice especially a superior black one ::)
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allways loved carltons,still have 2! so omega natural progression and allways thought them to be good looking allso! plus minicab,ed for a firm in omegas when they were a young car and ate the mileage they were shown!
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On my 4th - 1 CD, 2 CDX and an Elite
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On my fourth one now since 2004. :y
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I feel like a newbie, only got two ;D.
I remember them coming out, and thought they looked beautiful. You just get a sense when a car company has tried with a car, they've really got a good team together, and not done anything radical, nothing that's "the first time a production car was fitted with ---" just everything was developed over a long time, since the V-Car platform in 1978 with the Royales, Carlton and Viceroy/Senator, Rekord, Commodore. They made incremental changed year by year, honing and improving what was necessary, and leaving alone the stuff that worked.
I just get a sense of that every time I drive / work on / look at an Omega. :)
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Hi
I now run my Opel no.12. It has been 8 Opel Rekord -E, 1-Opel Manta -A, 1- Opel Calibra-a, 1-Opel Omega -a and now, also I run now -96 Opel Omega b 2,5v6 CD Caravan. This car I've had in nine years now, it has run almost 400000 km without a single mistake !!!!
It is said that we will Omega owners running detours to get home, simply because Omega is as good to drive :y