With this Opel Omega you were quite something in the early 90s – In the Wild

Nowadays you can no longer even go to Opel for a D-segmenter, now that the Insignia is no longer available, let alone for a car that was even higher in the market. Long before the Insignia, there was something like an Opel Omega, the big brother of the Vectra. The car manufacturer from Rüsselsheim wanted to gain a share in the segment in which the Ford Scorpio and Renault Safrane competed, but also the more ‘premium’ competitors from their own country such as the BMW 5-series and Audi 100. All large cars, Available both with four-cylinder engines that were also in their smaller brothers, and with bigger six-cylinder engines.

Thanks to AutoWeek forum member JFR, we have an Opel Omega Caravan for us here that has a six-cylinder engine in its nose. A 2.6 to be precise. An aging inline six, because that engine was a further development of one that was already introduced in the Opel Commodore at the end of the 1960s. With its 150 hp power, it was not very impressive for its swept volume, but with an Omega with a six-cylinder engine you were nevertheless quite the man at the time. If things really had to go fast, you could go for the 3.0, or – if money was really no object – the downright spectacular Lotus Omega.

This Omega has probably proven its services over the past 31 years mainly as a smooth and very spacious family transport. Thanks in part to its wheels, you can see that it is not just an Omega. We also see some outward display that, in our opinion, should have been left out. The window film and the larger exhaust end make it more bad rather than more fun. But hey, who knows, maybe the new owner who got his hands on it in February is still planning to restore the Omega to its former glory. In any case, that person has a special Opel in his hands.