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Bush Tucker Man:

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--- Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man" ---They build the awesome 'Vauxhall' Monaro
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"Awesome" and "Vauxhall", words you seldom see together :)

(I had a couple of company Omegas a few years back...)
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Well it's not actually a Vauxhall, apart from the badging

I almost bought a Omega 2.5TD CDX estate (the B*W engined version) before I got the Discovery.
My plan was for a big estate car (for the BWSOW) & a decent-ish 90, but we ended up with a Discovery & (at the time Volvo estate)

thermidorthelobster:

--- Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man" ---I almost bought a Omega 2.5TD CDX estate (the B*W engined version) before I got the Discovery.
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I had the Saloon.  The Beemer engine was a dog in that detuned incarnation;  underpowered.  There was an "S" button on the auto box which I originally thought stood for Sport, but in fact stood for Smoke, because if you pressed it and booted the throttle, the cars behind you would disappear in a big cloud of it.

The engine is apparently capable of much more though, as Jeremy Fearn has won plenty of events sitting behind one, so I'm told.

I subsequently had the V6 for a few months whilst my Volvo V70 was on order, and that was also pretty underwhelming.  The seat cloth was quite plush on the TD though.

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