Originally posted by baco99:
http://home.no.net/qazwsxed/bilder_opel/omega_lotus/
a number of Vauxhall and Opel cars are interchangable, even today.
Vauxhall and Opel are basically the same thing. Vauxhall is the UK name, Opel is the European.
I remember reading a press statement from Lotus years ago when this car was still pretty new. They mentioned that the car was in fact very 'dumbed down' and that there was a tonne of performance waiting to be unleased. I believe that they mentioned chipping it right would free up quite a chunk of HP on the stock build 
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Couldn't find the article on the web, but found this.
Originally posted by http://gear.ign.com/articles/317/317565p1.html:
The factory has been known to speculate that an improved ECU would bring about an easy 550bhp. Not bad for a car that looked almost exactly like the neighbor's fourbanger that his wife uses for grocery runs.
Last edited by Christian; 11/23/05 01:37 PM.
