Blergh, sucky beamer. Get a real car, like a mini metro

It gets me from A to B, in lots of comfort (it is the CDX which is almost top of the line, Elite is top of the line, but leather seats suck so who spend the extra just to stick to them in the summer?), and it has yet to lose a lights race
It is just a shame the exhaust has never been the same since we got it replaced. The guys in the shop claimed a Vectra exhaust would work fine (Vauxhall stopped making Omega parts apparently), but it is blowly, which sucks.

The omega is actually a pretty nice car, and is good in the wet when in V6 form

Anyway, im off to bed now, and when i come back tomorow, i expect to see replys on who is going to the ford fair dammit!

Night all

Like I said, its my first car...So it does me good. Beats the shit my mates are driving.

It is good in the wet in four pop. Though would be nice to have the V6 insurance would be a lot more (I'm mooching on my parents as I'm poor).

I don't think many would be. But if we're talking of Fords, I think I'd win the award for strangest mod to a Ford if the Granada didn't get scrapped, had to get an intercooler on an NA engine. Turns out 2.0s automatics don't like towing much, so they get hot fast. As an easy fix and nice little intercooler was stuck on the front

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Like I said, its my first car...So it does me good. Beats the shit my mates are driving.

Well yeah, it does that alright, everyone I knew in college had shitty little cars like Fiat Unos and such. I just waited longer to start driving so the costs aren't all that bad

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Vauxhall Omega 2.0 Four Pop. The poor man's Benz.

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Sweet to drive, even if it is auto.

I feel for you, my Dad has the same one (only slightly newer and slightly more dodgy) it goes like sh*t of a shovel, the manual version reaches 60 in an eye watering TEN SECONDS!

Lovely car, looks nice and is comfortable but it needs something bigger than a 2.0 to haul it's fat arse about

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its a 3.0 V6 out of the 2006 ST220 (thats what the police car was) and i dunno if this applys in the US, but in the UK, alot of police cars are slightly modified (engine wise) and when we got it, it was already putting out about 290hp, the standard ST220 engine puts out about 220-230hp. When we got the engine, we re-built it, put a forced induction kit on it, Superchip, uprated exhaust system (manifold, backbox etc.) and many other things. I cant list all the things because obviously, this is'nt my car, it's my brothers so i dont know everything done to it. Were gonna try and get it onto a dyno at the ford fair, but we'll have to take the front bumper off duee to the fact that it will be to low to get on there

Btw, as i said, the 3.0 liter certainly does'nt out out 170hp standard, in truth, the 2.5 litre engine from ford pushes out 170hp

Interesting, but as jayhawk said, do you have any anctual rolling road proof that the car is producing this kind of power? Or is it and estimated figure?

IMHO, the car would like better dressed as the standard ST modeo, none of this silly bodykit nonsense. All IMHO of course, each to there own.

What figures are the cossies putting out?

EDIT: DVLA is saying its a 2.5, not told the nice people at swansea theres a 3.0 in it?

wow , did he order all them parts for that mondeo out of a max power mag or what ??? :ices_roflBlergh,


* sucky beamer. Get a real car, like a mini metro

It gets me from A to B, in lots of comfort (it is the CDX which is almost top of the line, Elite is top of the line, but leather seats suck so who spend the extra just to stick to them in the summer?), and it has yet to lose a lights race
It is just a shame the exhaust has never been the same since we got it replaced. The guys in the shop claimed a Vectra exhaust would work fine (Vauxhall stopped making Omega parts apparently), but it is blowly, which sucks. *


that beamer is a discrase to bmw , just buy a e30 with a 2,.5 power plant ,

0-60 in 5.7 ( slight engine work gets you 5.5

its perfectly balanced and will smoke any police car you can find , for example.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMg2Vn8Ue6E

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I feel for you, my Dad has the same one (only slightly newer and slightly more dodgy) it goes like sh*t of a shovel, the manual version reaches 60 in an eye watering TEN SECONDS!

Lovely car, looks nice and is comfortable but it needs something bigger than a 2.0 to haul it's fat arse about

The car pulls off the line faster then 10 seconds, either yours has a bunk engine, or ours has been tampered with

But it would be nicer with a bigger engine as she is a biggie.

What Vauxhall claim for the Manual iirc

Well that sucks. God you could get out and run faster.

Justin, if you've ever seen me running i don't thikn you'd say that

My Dad thinks his car "is nice and fast", but then he though a Proton Wira was a "Drivers Car". *rolls eyes*

You mean it isn't? Oh man, it was the top of my drivers cars list too It must be good Humberside Police use them as Panda's.

~Jordan

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Totally. Mmmmm.

I'm a man with guns too. Linky.

A man with toy guns? How cute!

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A man with toy guns? How cute!

Toy guns are fun, I run around a field with other grown men with toy guns and shoot each other for a few hours, drink a few beers and go home covered in little red lumps and mud all over. A manly day out

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Toy guns are fun, I run around a field with other grown men with toy guns and shoot each other for a few hours,

Yeah me and my friends used to do that when we were in primary school, it was good fun. Do you ever build dens? If not you should definitely suggest it to your friends - I know it was great fun when I was 7.

We have lots of dens, and even a fortress with two floors. Oh, and a rope bridge, what is playing army without a rope bridge?

Of course when you was 7 I doubt you had access to an APC or a range of ex-military Land Rovers

Ahh, love these threads that pop up every now and again where people talk utter shite pretending they know so much and that everything they say is true. It's like a pub conversation without the social aspect or the alcohol or, well, anything that makes it enjoyable.

Prodrive tuning all the police cars? Old 2.0 litre auto Omegas doing 0-60 in less than 10? Claims that a first-generation fwd Mondeo with 350bhp and adorned with plastic crap actually handles well? Police forces trading and selling cars like DelBoy in order to afford something else?

Lol, very funny.

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Prodrive tuning all the police cars?

ProDrive have been tuning police cars around the world for a dark age, and I know for a fact other than the Panda's (which are Protons) and the Beamer, all the Humberside Police cars have been tuned by ProDrive. Could have something to do with the huge number of Imprezas.

"These "police Imprezas" are not showroom standard cars like the ones for sale in an ordinary Subaru dealer, but instead are modified by Prodrive, the same British tuning outfit who prepare rally spec Imprezas, including the Impreza WRCs (World Rally Cars). Consequently these cars have engines in a higher state of tune for more performance and have strengthened suspensions and an engine sump guard (as on the rally spec Imprezas) to allow the police to drive across speed bumps at high speed without destroying the car."

Slight correction: Prodrive modified Humberside's handful of Imprezas, and those of another force in the country (I forget which at the moment). That's about it.

If you think that police forces have the budgets to arrange bespoke engineering solutions on whole fleets of hundreds of vehicles, then I wish I lived in the same world as you. They've got some neat stuff and often some very nice motors, but not quite the chinese army of invincible rally cars that you seem to be trying to make out. :-/

And for the record, the only reason Beemers aren't in police fleet use as much as a few years ago has nothing to do with their performance or reliability. It's because the seats were too uncomfortable to spend an eight or ten hour shift in.

prodrive wanted to tune the irish police cars but theres no point since there getting replaced by 335i bmws and mitsu evos , i think its a good idea concidering there chasing lexus's and stole super cars all day :S


also the british police use protones .... might aswell be walking backwards , you get there faster..

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Of course when you was 7 I doubt you had access to an APC or a range of ex-military Land Rovers

No I didn't. And sadly now I'm old enough to be interested in girls I wouldn't be excited about having access to a land rover.

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Slight correction: Prodrive modified Humberside's handful of Imprezas, and those of another force in the country (I forget which at the moment). That's about it.

If you think that police forces have the budgets to arrange bespoke engineering solutions on whole fleets of hundreds of vehicles, then I wish I lived in the same world as you. They've got some neat stuff and often some very nice motors, but not quite the chinese army of invincible rally cars that you seem to be trying to make out. :-/

Well okay, the original claim was lightly over embellished. But from what I have understood so far, the aim was to get as many of the ProDrive Imprezas (or equivalents) running in the country as budgets allow because car thieves are stealing faster cars, and the "residential safety" schemes just make chases more dangerous.

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It's because the seats were too uncomfortable to spend an eight or ten hour shift in.

Makes sense.

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prodrive wanted to tune the irish police cars but theres no point since there getting replaced by 335i bmws and mitsu evos , i think its a good idea concidering there chasing lexus's and stole super cars all day :S


also the british police use protones .... might aswell be walking backwards , you get there faster..

They got them to replace an ageing fleet of Fiesta's and Astra's, and because everyone was on the LPG bandwagon, they are all LPG/Petrol cars.

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No I didn't. And sadly now I'm old enough to be interested in girls I wouldn't be excited about having access to a land rover.

Because I'm still at uni I have time for both, playing army every now and then on weekends, then going out and getting shit faced with the added fun of "Oh shit, who is in my bed", nothing gets rid of a hangover faster.

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also the british police use protones .... might aswell be walking backwards , you get there faster..

Protones? They are a bit slow on longer distances, very true. Or did you mean the car?

Over here they have alfa's and volvo's. They also bought 3 new heavily armoured audi A8's.

And if you don't believe about police cars being souped up, the old VW Transporters top out at 190 km/h. I don't think a regular VW T3 can do that.

i thought this was a thread about seeing who was going to silverstone?

i am. taking my xr3i cabby, what has just passed the MOT...total cost 42 notes. lovely jubley!

see you guys there.