Anyone remember the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton

[Lawrenceslongthrowin]

Anyone remember the Lotus Garden? Used to enjoy going there.

Remember Donkey jackets and Aztec bars tho

 

[yamar1]

Absolute beasts of their era. Police couldn't catch them hence 40 RA.

 

[Goat Eyes]

I worked for Lotus and had the privilege of driving many cars around the test track in Hethel, never a Carlton though as the one we had was a show piece.

 

[luvulongtime]

Chancer drove one in the tv series basically to piss off Spender's cosworth

 

[JAZZMANB]

Anyone remember the Lotus Garden? Used to enjoy going there.

Top food and a lesson in life waiting for it in the take away .
Chef went up to the Fountain garden in later years . Died a few years back

I quite liked the Granada cosworth
Not many on the roads

 

[c032745y]

Sunbeam Lotus as well...

 

[Goat Eyes]

Top food and a lesson in life waiting for it in the take away .
Chef went up to the Fountain garden in later years . Died a few years back

I quite liked the Granada cosworth
Not many on the roads

I drove loads in my time at Ford, always funeral cars so crawled along at 5mph ordinarily.

 

[ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK]

Sunbeam Lotus as well...

Just about to post that as remember them both

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Also seen a Lotus Cortina but never been on one of those (MK1 or MK2) but been in the other 2 but never owned one. Not many Cortinas left.

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[Sing in the Roker]

Used to be a Vauxhall Carlton GSI anarl

 

[SHEEPSKINBOOTS]

Sunbeam Lotus was the boy.

 

[BlackHoleSun]

Just about to post that as remember them both

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Also seen a Lotus Cortina but never been on one of those (MK1 or MK2) but been in the other 2 but never owned one. Not many Cortinas left.

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Bloody hell. Noticed the thread and it stirred a memory about us having a Carlton. Had a Sunbeam as well

Fatha man. There was Lotus versions of your sad looking dad cars

 

[humbug]

the white lotus was canny.

 

[contrarian]

We had a ford popular back in the day
0-50 in 25 minutes

 

[The Great Soprendo]

When the Vauxhall Lotus Carlton was launched in 1990, it had a list price of £48,000.

It was a 3.6 fast saloon.

There are two for sale currently on Autotrader with either 60,000 miles and 85,000 miles on them.

The prices - £89,000 and £78,000.

Personally if I was interested in that sort of thing I think I'd save £40K and get one of these instead:

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Not as quick but then nobody is going to buy one of these nowadays and actually rag it about.

 

[Gobuchul]

The Lotus Carlton was a way different beast from the 3.0 litre Carlton.

It was a Cosworth killer, nearly double the horsepower.

This is what I desired.

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[mini-x2]

It's a horrible looking thing, almost as horrific as the Subaru Impreza.

 

[Lukas73]

they tried to ban it...not the best looking car but by god it could shift.