Lotus Omega vs Swedish police (Very high quality)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2009
- High quality video clip from the swedish police in pursuit of a speeding Lotus Omega.
Police car is an un-marked Saab 9-3 2.0t and therefore a bit slow.
I do not claim to own the rights to this movie, I just got annoyed that all versions on youtube are either fast-frowarded or in very bad quality.
Although the driver of the Lotus got away in the pursuit, the police later went to his home. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Okey, let me point out a few things. Do you see when this video was posted? 21st of June 2009. The video was already old at that time. Now compare it to most other reels of this clip that are either sped-up, or in 240p with very low quality encoding.
Finally, go play with yourself.
@Ryan Dowsett
Mr Downsett, are you just unlucky or did you have to try hard to write that comment?
Why on earth would I change the title when this upload is one of the highest quality available for THIS video?
Unless you find out a way to remaster the original video at the swedish police office, I will keep the title just the way it is.
The gentleman next to you won a cookie for their splendid comment - you sir won the whole friggin box.
@@fyllefinken LMAO dude you destroyed him
Haha well played sir, indeed high quality for its time, i remember before youtube using p2p watching get away in Stockholm and downloading crazy car videos, dodging viruses and some car videos turning out to be porn with the wrong tags,.. Or that could of been just me 😂😂 TH-cam you all have it easy
fyllefinken LMFAO You ended his career 😂
@@fyllefinken LOL you have made him depressed and you have roasted him. 😂
Legend has it the lotus is still accelerating to this day
This isn't 40 ra
😂
Lol
No
180mph v6 twin Garrett turbos stock, UK government tried to ban this car....didn't work. Worth about 20k+ now in good condition.
Vauxhall's answer to the cossi
I love how the police man says very calmly in Swedish "He's driving away from us"
Haha nice! Thanks for the translation.
@@cozmium Now on closer notice it sounds like the co-driver asks the driver
"Are we able to stop him?"
And the driver awnser after a long pause.
"No, He's driving away from us you know"
Svensk polis har i princip aldrig
Behövt bry sig om sådant. Man förväntar sig inte att någon har så sinnessjukt att åka med och sen dessutom kan hantera sådant.
Det finns många som är bra mycket bättre på att köra bil än
Svenska polis.
Weird to think that there was a time when Opel made one of the fastest cars on the planet.
It didn't. Lotus did.
@@mauriziopescatori4606 lotus did the tuning. It's still Opel
Why not? you just need to get along.
at this time gm owned lotus and opel
@sledgehammer no just shitty cars nobody wants😂
the Lotus Omega was an absolute beast in its day. Unfortunately, it was also very prone to defects, especially the clutch was a permanent guest at the mechanic's. I once had contact with a Lotus Omega on the main road. At that time I was driving my Kawasaki GPZ900R and in front of me the Opel which I classified as an Omega 3000. When I tried to easily pass him, it catapulted the Omega away. I had to turn the Kawa into the red zone to catch up again and only then did I see that it was the extremely rare Lotus model. At the next traffic light we nodded to each other.
So much happened in those years. GPZ 900 had only 240 kph top speed, so already at 200 it should start to struggle big time. Meanwhile the marginally newer ZX-11R could keep up with the Omega's 283 kph speed (of course humiliating it in Accelation.).
Both vehicles are legends for sure. Nothing to match it these days
My ZZR1100 is in the garage and I still ride it weekly waiting to spot a Lotus Carlton on the road and you never know :o). Have not seen one on the road now for many years. @@miljororforsprakpartiet290
The Lotus Omega was tested by many car magazines when it was new in 1990. Since many testers saw 300km/h (186mph) on the speedo, the performance of 283km/h (176mph) wasn't just a theoretical top speed which many supercar manufacturers (no names not to offend their fans) still used to brag with.
Some of them were even tuned to around 500hp meaning nothing could match them at the time. Since they are rare elsewhere and look inconspicuous they are truly sleeper cars in every sense of the word.
Yeah, sooo??
Andreas Lie So. They. Are. Faster. Than. They. Appear.
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rated at 376/7 bhp by opel. some stock ones have been dynoed at 400+bhp. back in its day this car was a demon in disguise.
and still is i guess..
This car was supposed to go from 0 to 200 km/h and back to 0 in 11 seconds, if I remember correctly.
Ignore them, this is one of the highest quality car chases I have seen.
"We must catch him!"
"Who?"
"Nothing, it doesn't matter anymore."
5
Cops didn't catch him because they took the biggest bong hit in history at 1:50 . They gave up after that.
+hmattyj What gave you that idea?
+DerKuhschubser Their brains started making R2D2 sounds
lol
hmattyj Pmsl, that's all I can hear now !! Lmfao
hmattyj that's some serious tocking
That's like trying to catch the Space Shuttle on a moped....
😂😂😂
yeah, I would have used 7.62x39.
🤣🤣🤣
My former boss had one of those. Tuned of course. He let me drive it a few times. In one occasion I had to show a corvette who was the fastest kid on the block. The speedo goes to 300 km/h, but I was above and beyond.. OMG what a car
Vilket år var det? Var din chefs Johan? Ifrån videon Open Johan - Motornörd?
@@korkunge Det kan ha varit 2005.. Min chef hette Lennart och har inte varit med i Motornörd
These things standard were extremely capable of seeing off almost anything on the road let alone with exhaust and intake modded and tuned they were and still are to this day a different league
@@korkunge kanske är Johan i videon:) han kändes lite stolt över videon på intervjun
hi vibabino have you become a flat earther yet? If not I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.
This car was used in numerous armed robberies in the UK and the people were never caught as they were simply too fast, getting away from police cars and helicopters alike.
not possible that car would run away from helicopter
@@HORSER9999Quite possible. One thing to, with a helicopter, chase down a car in the middle of a winding road on open fields or hills, but on a long stretch of highway through a forest and traffic the human eye has its limits.
@@HORSER9999 wrong, search for "dodge hellcat outruns helicopter" it's a chase from LA on a highway, the helicopter can't keep up.
@@HORSER9999 its a fact i believe it was either the M6 or M1 cant remember exactly, but in the early 90s police choppers only had 2hrs of fuel, the story of it "outrunning" choppers was half true, it could catch up but by the time it did the choppers would have to go to base and refuel.
I heard that the police is still trying to catch up :-))
Whoever was the driver, he has become an internet legend, this video has been around for at least 20-25 years
According to news from 2000. (That’s when the video was from). The car was stolen and used in robberies.
@@patricksandeberg8184 it was the registered owner driving it - i happen to know him, car is for sale atm here in Sweden :-)
@@patricksandeberg8184 if it was thieves, they would not use the blinker when overtaking :D also he always waited till there are no cars coming from the opposite side till he started to overtake. it was def the owner of it
@@HORSER9999 its a police car in pursuit. It was on the news later that the car had been stolen and used in robberies. But maybe it was the owner of the car making the robberies. 😉
@@TeamDriftEVO What a pity he never uploaded videos by himself. (I mean videos in which he is filming out of the cocpit.)
In the UK it was sold as a 'Lotus Carlton' as we have Vauxhalls, on the continent it was sold as a Lotus Omega, as everywhere other than Britain the' Vauxhall Carlton' was called 'Opel Omega'.
It was and still is an incredibly quick car. They took the engine from the Carlton/Omega GSi (3000cc 24v) an already quick motor in its day, bored it out to 3600cc then stuck on two T25 turbo's. A limited run of 950 were made. Top speed - +176 mph (283 km/h)
A very special and collectable machine.
That's the "oficial" top speed, the real speed it's 304 km.
Init🏁🏁🏁🏁
They also used the same 24v CIH engine in the Vauxhall / Opel Senator. It had about 204bhp in standard form. Irmscher also bored the engine out to 4 litres and tuned it to create a fast Irmscher Senator, which looks almost as good as the Lotus Carlton with it's bodykit. The Irmscher senator only had 286bhp compared to the monstrous 380-ish from the Lotus Carlton.
I got the 3000 24v in my late omega. I just loved to see the faces of bimmer drivers when they were restricted to 250kmh while i zoom by over 300kmh. No it wasn't stock.
It was the fastest production saloon car made at the time, I saw one in Birmingham once and it was like someone has pressed the fast forward button on a VCR when it drove off, a fantastic car and still is
The way it squats down at 0:42 and accelerates is very impressive!
especially that it squats down at 120 kph!
Ah the old classic from time before TH-cam even existed.
I remember this video back in 2001..can't believe it's still on you tube
TH-cam was started in 2005
@@jrockhardest there are other platforms than youtube but i guess he meant "can't believe it's still here (on the internet)"
chek auti rs4 bmw m5 in russia thats the best
@@serz1885 well this car is from 1991 and was the fastest sedan
Pudding900 what this to do with anything
Saw this video the first time +10 years ago. It's still one of my favourites. Thanks for uploading in high quality;-)
The uploader is legend for still reading the comments after 12 years ...
0:44 at this moment they should have realized they were never gonna catch him
well they had plate number. When this boy returned home, there were a couple of cops .... a heavy gas foot correlated with brain cassette.
You remembers this Carlton momemt?
@@exactormortis7433 in sweden (and most places) police cant do shit with the plate number.
They might turn up to your house, but unless you confess you were driving, they have no right to do anything.
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j yeah, that's maybe true, and that's what that crazy behavior in traffic is based on. Perhaps the seizure of a crime instrument would help or else a spike stop. Thus, permanent safety risks can be reduced in traffic.
They would have had to follow him incase he wrecked it, they probably kept on that road and at that speed for a long time hoping this guy did not cause someone to panic and get killed.
This was 2009 you know, the time when 480p was concidered high quality on youtube. It's not HD but damn better than 240p right?
this was posted in 2013 when 720p was considered HD on TH-cam
@@precesionnoreaster1507 HD is and always will be 720p
@@precesionnoreaster1507 the video itself is at least 25 years old. I have watched it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before anyone even thought about creating youtube. There is no better quality version than this one.
@@M-M-M-M your mom is 25 yo
@@peni80085 uhum, what is it that you wanna say, bud? My mother passed away more than 30 years ago, if you are interested. Was there anything else you'd like to ask?
I only ever saw a Lotus Carlton in a showroom before they went on sale. My friend bought a pre sale order ticket for £2500, he sold the ticket six months later for £18,000. These cars are now (2019) going for £120,000 in the UK. Wow!!!
Still great even in 2019. I think they lost him..
I had an opel omega 1.8 115hp.at 2005 i got it with 200.000km.i kept it for 2 years adding 50000km.the car was bought in 1989.i sold it to a friend until 270.000km,hesold it too.Not one mechanical or electrical problem in 16 years.just one pump relay. All the electronics said Bosch made in germany.amazing car.when it was raining it was apleasure also...quality cars back then(not safer though).
I remember having a bit of a blast on the M45 in my rare 1974 Firenza HPF which could top 120mph (OK, not fast nowadays) and a Lotus Carlton came past as if I was stationary. He gave me a casual wave as one rare Vauxhall owner to another. Nice bit of road that...
Droop Snoot , yeah I had a tuned up one with high lift cam twin side daft Webber’s over-bored pistons with an overdrive gearbox, certainly quicker than 120mph from memory 🎉
@@paulmartin2429 what was the reg? I owned another in the 80s that fits this description, owner had rolled it and I rescued it from the insurer's scrap pile. It was too much work for me, but I sold it on and it's still around.
@@GRAHAMAUS sorry I can’t remember now long past my memory sell by date! 😛
Omg.. Lotus Carlton/Omega is probably the sickest car of its time. When it was sold, there was no police car that could catch up with it and apparently there still isnt many :O
About 20 years ago, i guess. Later, the police found the the car and the cars owner in the city of Karlstad, but the owner diden´t of course not know who was driving at the time.
Kor du har denna infoen fra? Lurt på i mange år kor biln kom ifra
Didnt they get the licens plate ?
It' should have take 2 weeks Top
?
@@mnjaa11 En då bilskollärare i staden Nyköping/linköping - minns inte vilken stad längre,,,ägde en sådan bil, Men ingen kunde bevisa att det var han som körde,,, Är fortfarande förare som är ansvarig för förseelsen ;-)
RoninAnr1 mener sjåføren her er norsk, etter ryktene vertfall
Lol fuck pulling over when you're in a car like that
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnd... it's gone
but, they got the cars registration number.
But in sweden they need to see the driver to give them a sentence and they didnt see him here atleast not in the video so seeing the plates doesnt matter :)
In theory he is free to go, after a good deal trouble with the police.
only commenting if its fire konstiga regler men bra
south park
How many Volvos did you see?
In early 90 in DTM series, Omega was not competitors for anyone. But in the civilian version as the Lotus Omega, he was a beast.
It’s different cars - road version of dtm omega is evolution 500
Ever since this video was new, I stop by at least twice a year for a good laugh :)
Edit: hearting my comment after 6 years, my man!
Edit 2: awww he took my heart away...
why? they got his registration number.
@@geirmyklebust in sweden it is the driver that is at fault and not the owner and owner dont need by law to tell who drove the car and the driver dont got caught so its a loss for the police.
Here 3/31/21 lol.
I saw this car at the Earls Court Motor Show in London in 1990.I couldn't believe a Vauxhall could be that fast.Rare now, and expensive.
Same here. Still have the photos I took of it.
As far as I know the police saw the driver.
Before the recording started they were side by side for a little while and the officer recognized the driver.
They had encounters before and the officer knew who he was on sight.
I used to have one of these. I was cruising at 130 kph on a straight stretch of the SS7 between Villa Laterno and Casal di Principe near Naples one day when a Mini came up behind me. An impatient Neapolitan driver was at the wheel flashing his lights at me. I dropped from 6th to 4th and floored it. I saw a Carabinieri enter the highway at Casal, let off the gas, and looked down. 245 kph and the Mini was nowhere in sight.
I worked for gm back in the day, our branch had one as a demonstrator for a bit, it was known as Black Death, saw many people get out of that car ill. I never took it out the dealership myself, don’t know if it was fear or respect
thats ace man
"Do you know why I pulled you over? Because I let you?" 😂 🤣
Was expecting it to have turned round and cone back the other way!! 😃
i love how this is the first video that comes up when u search lotus omega:d
I had this video in its lower quality back in the day and knew it was 100% genuine. I have been at the Lotus factory and seen them fly off the start line on the test track. They are like sh1t off a shovel. 3.5 litre twin Garrett turbos on a lightened subframe with Lotus suspension. It held the record as the fastest 5 seat production car for some time. Top speed of 175mph. But some went over that 😜. Amazing car !! Thanks for posting the HQ vid
That legend in the Lotus... Deepest respect...
Lotus omega: CYAAA
Swedish Police: FITTA!
Michael S. 😂
ULA BRITA FITTA SMITTA!
Vilka är här från Motor blog of Sweden?
Sush. Jag är inte här.
Jag
One does not expect to catch up to a Lotus Omega that easily
@ McLarenMercedes: the Italian Police now have Lotus Evoras. Wise choice (though unpatriotic). In this video you can hear the brakes of the Saab complaining as they slow down from 200k to 100k...
8:50 pm & it's still light out, that blows my mind being down here in Chicago
try 12 hours from sunrise to sunset up north in Alaska towards the end of winter. a couple feet of snow everywhere, highs in the 20's, lows in the single digits. Dead of winter, -40 or -50 sometimes, 4 hours of daylight. Now that's weird. First year I was stunned!
@@matthewschiebout7384 Some places here in Norway, next door to Sweden, the sun doesn't set in summer and doesn't rise in winter. Like in Alaska, further north than you apparently :-P
In the Scottish Highlands, the sun doesn’t set until after 10pm at the height of summer, and it’s twilight until sunrise, 6 hours later.
Yeah, I loved the very high quality of this video!
In the UK it was called a Vauxhall Lotus Carlton. I suppose in Europe It was a Opel Lotus Omega!
Did I just see a police car pass another car into oncoming traffic at the crest of a hill at 2:21 just barely missing on coming cars? This cop is driving more reckless than the Lotus!
Back in 92 I went to buy a part from a Vx dealer in the UK and he input the part number incorrectly and priced just one front brake disc for this crazy car. It was £940!
Legend has it that the Lotus never stopped and kept moving
Amazing car and when new they tried to ban it as cops couldn’t catch it lol
Complete bollocks - it wasn't as fast as many sports cars - and when has anyone tried to ban sports cars?
@@pd4165 yeah but for that Time/Era that was Rapid
There’s a lotus Carlton in Britain that was used used for armed robberies it was known as 40RA the uk police had nothing at the time that could catch the car or robbers it even lost a helicopter on the M6 in a straight line they where never caught the car has never been recovered ( to my knowledge ) it’s a big icon in the uk
@@pd4165 It was the fastest production sedan and could easily reach 300 km/h in 5th gear meanwhile it had a 6 speed corvett gearbox. After engine tuneing you could reach 340 km/h which is something crazy even now.
@@pd4165 Lotus took them to testing at Mugello race track, Ferrari Testdrivers complained about it, well they just couldn't keep up, so they banned the Lotus from driving on the track.
Mmm :) Lotus Omega - what a legend!! :))
1:40 that saab even sounds like a jet
Don’t know how this is in my feed, but glad I watched. Wow! After cop gets behind Him, 35 seconds He is out of sight!
I like the quote form British Police at the time: ""We simply haven't been able to get near the thing and it looks unlikely that we ever will".
Dude this was the second fastest streetlegal Sedan at it's time (283Km/h) right after Alpina B10 Biturbo (291Km/h). Based on the german Opel Omega with 3L inline six engine, Lotus modified it to 3.6L with Biturbo which gained 377hp. In GB they sold it under the Name Lotus Carlton afaik.
Correct.
Now imagine how relatively easy it would have been to make it a bit lighter, tune it up a bit. It could go Hypercar speeds. Legendary car.
hot damn, that lotus thing hauls :D
Covert Person no they didn’t. They tried too
So high quality that my eyes got sucked onto the video and took residence.
read pinned comment dumb
Hvilken pixel var en Lotus Omega?
Now, that's what I call a car! Beautiful to see
Loved the lotus carlton, remember it being launched ans saw it at the NEC motor show, they wanted it banning in the UK because the police said it was the only car they could not catch.
Wasnt a stolen one used in like 9 bank robberies never caught them
@@paulg5811 idk if it was stolen but it was a hot getaway vehicle and no cop car could catch it or keep up with it
Police wanting a car banned for being fast?
Absolute BS.
There have always been fast cars - the police make do with the fastest they can afford, which is never as fast as a proper sports car.
There was talk in the press that the LC was a bad idea, but the press also campaigned against Cobras in the 60s.
@@pd4165 the LC 250 brought an end to the 250cc L plate laws coz it was so mental, lol i was a 350lc man. No its true the police did want the lotus carlton banning and some MP's brought the matter up in the house of parliment. I was around when it made the headlines.
@@pd4165 There is truth to attempt to get it banned in the U.K. They were the gold standard of getaway vehicles back then and the police had nothing at all that could touch them. Cross county policing wasn't what it is these days, police helicopters were few and far between and CCTV cameras along the main routes were only just starting to appear. No matter what the rozzers were using to run them down, as soon as one of these things got a clear run on a motorway in the early hours, ten times out ten, they were gone.
It wasn't the police themselves, but the ACPO, which was essentially council of chief police officers, who wanted to ban them from the roads. It was pretty well covered in the press at the time, with at least one major newspaper launching a campaign in support of the ACPO's proposal.
The way it just went. It just up and went. Bye, gone.
Damn!
you can watch three things forever, how the fire burns, how the water flows, how the lotus omega leaves the cops
if this video is high quality, 480p then i don't want to know what's low quality...
Do you notice when this video was posted? It was old by then. 480p was the highest TH-cam supported back then. 140p was still around you know...
+Piktor99
Dude don't comfuse it with the HD 720 or 1080p
HQ is this 480 p ..But yet again in those pixels we can have good or bad quality it depends from the prototype video's quality !!
+Piktor99 :) This video is probably older than you, sir and at least 10 years older than TH-cam.
+Piktor99 allmost 7 years old now ...
It is actually SUPER HIGH quality - compared to the same footage but watched on a 14" CRT screen and 240p effective resolution :)
I love the old Lotus Omega!
I love that you see it squat down as soon as he takes off
Legend says that the lotus he was chasing was just an after image
Ahhh The Lotus Omega... Now that's a great piece of car
Русский комментатор. "Блять! Дак они же не догнали?) Реально валит."
Probably the best car commercial ever.
Absolutely no chance at the time the Lotus Carlton was ground breaking in fact by today 2020 its a very impressive 5 door saloon.
This car came whit officially 377HP on the paper, and Mercedes Benz whit Bmw going to the judge to Ban this car!!
In reality they came whit over 400 HP and 690NM!!!
Especially an old automatic, with loads of police gear making it heavy as hell.
Now that's a nice motor! He's long gone in that lotus, nice 🙂
You'd think by now that this car is so well known to the Police that their manual should state "If you see a car with Lotus Carlton on the back, Don't even try to stop it, because you can't!"
The Lotus' guy (or girl?) would have plenty of time to go off road and hide :-)
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Minus. Ne znaju pacana.
"OH hAHa mY aUdi a4 CAn Go fASteR" shut the fuck up, this was one of the fastest cars at the time, it was faster than the fastest ferrari
Is this mariestad? on E20 towards Lugnås? Tought I recognised this road? :D was driving today looks very diffrent.
Correct. Allthough not that different today
That Lotus 3.6 twin-turbo Carlton/Omega was amazing ! - See it fly ! :-)
WOW REALLY 9K QUALITY!!!!
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AMAZING "OMEGA"
what year
Were they boiling a kettle in the Saab at the time?
go omega !!!
instead of running away he should have just said he was an illegal immigrant, that would get you let off in Sweden
The sad thing about this comment is that it is actually true :/
ViscountAlbany same here in the U.K.
illegal immigrants are not allowed to own and drive car
Hmm yes, i'm sure *illegal* immigrants would pay attention to vehicle licensing laws.
sure, but they cant afford cars
That thing hits the loud peddle and it's like the USS Enterprise hitting the warp button
The ultimate classic sleeper.
Looked like they were chasing a ghost Lotus . puff ! and it disappears.
its not any "ghost", they got his registration number.
haci 5 años que ves to el vedio todabia me encanta hhhh
EPIC video! Lotus Omega is monster!
Some say he was going back to IKEA to return one of those little pencils he’d “accidentally” taken
не догнал...
1990 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 5.2 seconds and achieve 0-100-0 mph in less than 17 seconds (straight out of Wiki). Its a 30 year old saloon. That's incredible. My 2017 Golf R "may" just beat it of the blocks but it would quickly smash it.
The Lotus Carlton still is a serious car. Which I could afford one
What type of saab is police driving?
you're not going to catch up to the lotus Carlton. It's still a beast today.
Absolutely smoked them! Amazing.
What are they driving , a yugo ?
What Yugo that you know of reaches 120+ mph?
Saab 9-3 2.0T
If they drive a 9-3 2.0T why do they even try?
This is like cryptid footage, legendary sleeper of a car.
That really was "good bye mr bond"