Tiff Needel tests the Lotus Carlton

[solidus24]

1:58 "Top Gear being a responsible motoring program..." Yes, things have changed, haven't they? :)

[moltenriches]

With Top gearbeing a responsible motoring program? It says 5 in the corner, he's clearly on 5th Gear at this point lol...fail

[GreyGhost881]

@moltenriches

Errr. It's Top Gear bellend. The '5' refers to Channel 5 which aired Top Gear at the time.Get your facts right before you start with your cliche ' LOL FAIL' comments you tool.

[moltenriches]

@GreyGhost881 When has Top Gear EVER aired on Channel 5?!

[LOLDISNEYLAND]

Lotus Carlton is the penis of motoring.

[tall757]

Saving up for one of these so I can scare some bmw's, merc's and audi's with this beast... would love to know the song at 0:31

[megaman2000]

God bless the VLC

[kazimann]

The Carlton Tiff reviews is still on the roads today: The vehicle details for H746 VVF are: Date of Liability 01 03 2010 Date of First Registration 11 01 1991 Year of Manufacture 1991 Cylinder Capacity (cc) 3615CC CO2 Emissions Not Available Fuel Type Petrol Export Marker Not Applicable Vehicle Status SORN Not Due Vehicle Colour GREEN Vehicle Type Approval null

[TheSaintST1]

Always wanted one of these after me and my dad stumbled across one in a street under a flyover in Hammersmith back in the early 90's.

[CrazyDave650]

sweet, looks like my volvo

[gcharger1]

i bet it does'nt look anything like "your volvo" lol!

[TheSaintST1]

What I fin amazing is that the newspapers and the police wanted this car banned in the UK!!

[TheSaintST1]

Can someone please tell me.. How do the turbos work on these cars.. is there one that opens up at low revs and the other one at high revs or do they both work in unison throughout the rev range..?

[Rzeractor]

The primary one will spool at low rpm, while the secondary comes in at higher rpm

[citydriver]

its a twin turbo not a bi turbo

[megaman2000]

only morons would think you wrong,

[f1kus]

3 cylinders per turbo on the exhaust side and they feed a common plenum on the inlet side!

[audiquattro01]

sweet car! i thought this car was called lotus omega?! thanks for the subtitle, its swedish and i understand.

[Perucho20ie]

It was called Lotus Carlton in the UK and Lotus Omega in the rest of Europe, fortunately this car couldn´t be federalized to be sold in North America... Just imagine how bad it might have looked with the huge bumpers, the odd orange side lights, and the Automatic seatbelts!

[kazifaiz]

whats the song at 1:42?

[VauxhallKeith]

Enigma - Push The Limits

[kazifaiz]

thanks mate!

[Jtt0g1]

i had one number 011 it was fast but heavy as hell. good fun though. i'll never forget the time i flashed a guy out of a junction in an aston martin,he looked at my car with awe and i looked at his with the same, gave each other a wink and drove off............

[05027802]

What a coincidence! Something very similar happened to me once Jtt0g1, I was driving my Ferrari 355 one afternoon when I bumped into Michael Shumacher in his Enzo, we went for a drink and then back to his place for a nice meal, he asked me for some driving tips and let me do his wife from behind. It was great day i'll never forget it.

I guess what i'm trying to say is.... "you're talking through your ass!!!"

[kjdandy123]

you like to wink at strange men.......HOMO!!

[daveybaby10]

ha ha quality,the bull shitting twat!!!

[marvinbenz]

i remember falling in love with this car in 1991 when Car magazine tested it against the mercedes 500E and Bmw M5 and it dismissed both germans without even breaking a sweat

[kankraza]

nice i want one

[pineappletoast]

Apparently theyre worth £40k now. I want one of those in my life

[speedyagarjr]

looks like a vs commodore clubsport

[gripbop]

The commodore is the omega in Australia, and the lotus carlton is an omega made by lotus and opel like a kind of super sport version of the omega!

[MonaroDriver]

Took me 10 years to find something that did the same job as this for me. Finally found it in the form of a supercharged Monaro :D

Awesome car, way ahead of it's time, finally recognised now though.

[111alonso]

gimme gimme gimme i want one now just added it to my list of car's to own

[HoracePL]

hahaa me2!!!

[MondeoRS96]

We have a Lotus Carlton Wagon in the garage. It's one of 30 build

[johnxbox]

you can see why people may not believe you cant you?

[Stealthtube1]

Music is by O Fortuna from Carmina Burana

[DemonT88]

hi guys, can u tell me the name of the original song that starts at 3:00 until 3:20?

Thanks

[shazma07]

my friend has an original lotus carlton and has put bigger turbos on it to give it 780 bhp. his is production number 240/950 that were made!!!

omar

[jimjon81]

"video from early 90's" he is in a 1999 car at the beginning :P

[RodrigoWest81]

That's because I didn't see any vectra.. :p LOL

[chepe371]

@jimjon81 Well to be fair the description says ' Very nice video from this early 90's supercar' not referring to the time frame but rather the era of the car....maybe try reading the WHOLE sentence.

[oygly]

Tiff may be Twot but the boy can sure drive!

The Lotus Carlton is deffinately on my list of "cars to drive before I die"!

[Chappers158]

It's not from the early 90s it's from the late 90s, he's driving a T reg vectra, i.e. 1999 :)

[cupra1]

Did you even watch the video?

[Chappers158]

No, obviously i didn't. I just make that kind of mind-numbingly tedious detailed observation up for a laugh. Did you even read the video description?

"Very nice video from the early 90s"

[RodrigoWest81]

Yes, you're right, I've changed it.. :)

[fotogenikfilm]

Tiff Needel = Twat...

Lotus Carlton = hard

[lampost1]

one word... shagadellic

[Kevvvvvvvvv]

Such a great car, pity Opel/vauxhall won't make anything in the same line today.

[Chappers158]

Cue the new 4 door monaro then, which will do about 170 given enough road!!! :D

[Kevvvvvvvvv]

True. Didn't think about it. ;)

[12345678903154]

lol i know sum1 who has driven de tomaso's, ferraris, lambourghinis, aston martins etc nd he said nothing beat this.....lucky fukker

[penneyduk]

jasper carrott! brummaaye

[foxeng]

que foda hein!

[frazmanuk81]

weapon

[bizzyfingers]

my weapon of choice, ive got two of them. i wake up every morning and they are gone but there is always tonight