Lotus Omega vs Swedish police (Very high quality)

[@fyllefinken]

Okey, let me point out a few things. Do you see when this video was posted? 21st of June 2009. The video was already old at that time. Now compare it to most other reels of this clip that are either sped-up, or in 240p with very low quality encoding. Finally, go play with yourself.

[@fyllefinken]

@Ryan Dowsett Mr Downsett, are you just unlucky or did you have to try hard to write that comment? Why on earth would I change the title when this upload is one of the highest quality available for THIS video? Unless you find out a way to remaster the original video at the swedish police office, I will keep the title just the way it is. The gentleman next to you won a cookie for their splendid comment - you sir won the whole friggin box.

[@danishsaeedd]

@@fyllefinken LMAO dude you destroyed him

[@Target842]

Haha well played sir, indeed high quality for its time, i remember before youtube using p2p watching get away in Stockholm and downloading crazy car videos, dodging viruses and some car videos turning out to be porn with the wrong tags,.. Or that could of been just me 😂😂 KZbin you all have it easy

[@vajirahettiarachchi5172]

fyllefinken LMFAO You ended his career 😂

[@terrificspokesman7416]

@@fyllefinken LOL you have made him depressed and you have roasted him. 😂

[@afout07]

Legend has it the lotus is still accelerating to this day

[@paddykelly3095]

This isn't 40 ra

[@S1monVinyl]

😂

[@jackmill6301]

Lol

[@legan8140]

No

[@andrewwright.]

180mph v6 twin Garrett turbos stock, UK government tried to ban this car....didn't work. Worth about 20k+ now in good condition. Vauxhall's answer to the cossi

[@cassiuschaerea8630]

The Lotus Omega was tested by many car magazines when it was new in 1990. Since many testers saw 300km/h (186mph) on the speedo, the performance of 283km/h (176mph) wasn't just a theoretical top speed which many supercar manufacturers (no names not to offend their fans) still used to brag with. Some of them were even tuned to around 500hp meaning nothing could match them at the time. Since they are rare elsewhere and look inconspicuous they are truly sleeper cars in every sense of the word.

[@andylie7699]

Yeah, sooo??

[@cassiuschaerea8630]

Andreas Lie So. They. Are. Faster. Than. They. Appear. The Police Here In This Video Found That Out

[@Soulvex]

rated at 376/7 bhp by opel. some stock ones have been dynoed at 400+bhp. back in its day this car was a demon in disguise.

[@Soulvex]

and still is i guess..

[@martinmaier352]

This car was supposed to go from 0 to 200 km/h and back to 0 in 11 seconds, if I remember correctly.

[@sixunity1171]

Weird to think that there was a time when Opel made one of the fastest cars on the planet.

[@mauriziopescatori4606]

It didn't. Lotus did.

[@mistersimple1986]

@@mauriziopescatori4606 lotus did the tuning. It's still Opel

[@RatelZajcebanan]

Why not? you just need to get along.

[@fanfarras788]

at this time gm owned lotus and opel

[@trainkreator848]

@sledgehammer no just shitty cars nobody wants😂

[@jagheterhopp]

I love how the police man says very calmly in Swedish "He's driving away from us"

[@cozmium]

Haha nice! Thanks for the translation.

[@jagheterhopp]

​@@cozmium Now on closer notice it sounds like the co-driver asks the driver "Are we able to stop him?" And the driver awnser after a long pause. "No, He's driving away from us you know"

[@hakankinnunen3270]

Svensk polis har i princip aldrig Behövt bry sig om sådant. Man förväntar sig inte att någon har så sinnessjukt att åka med och sen dessutom kan hantera sådant. Det finns många som är bra mycket bättre på att köra bil än Svenska polis.

[@MP-po6fj]

He's like feck that I haven't got the hp so let him go. Even the H chopper cannot catch him at 171 mph They would struggle after 155

[@hmattyj]

Cops didn't catch him because they took the biggest bong hit in history at 1:50 . They gave up after that.

[@derkuhschubser6488]

+hmattyj What gave you that idea?

[@hmattyj]

+DerKuhschubser Their brains started making R2D2 sounds

[@Soulvex]

lol

[@bmw540i]

hmattyj Pmsl, that's all I can hear now !! Lmfao

[@bmw540i]

hmattyj that's some serious tocking

[@gmf1minion]

Ignore them, this is one of the highest quality car chases I have seen.

[@jaegermeister1968]

the Lotus Omega was an absolute beast in its day. Unfortunately, it was also very prone to defects, especially the clutch was a permanent guest at the mechanic's. I once had contact with a Lotus Omega on the main road. At that time I was driving my Kawasaki GPZ900R and in front of me the Opel which I classified as an Omega 3000. When I tried to easily pass him, it catapulted the Omega away. I had to turn the Kawa into the red zone to catch up again and only then did I see that it was the extremely rare Lotus model. At the next traffic light we nodded to each other.

[@miljororforsprakpartiet290]

So much happened in those years. GPZ 900 had only 240 kph top speed, so already at 200 it should start to struggle big time. Meanwhile the marginally newer ZX-11R could keep up with the Omega's 283 kph speed (of course humiliating it in Accelation.). Both vehicles are legends for sure. Nothing to match it these days

[@ggj666]

My ZZR1100 is in the garage and I still ride it weekly waiting to spot a Lotus Carlton on the road and you never know :o). Have not seen one on the road now for many years. @@miljororforsprakpartiet290

[@paul-ie6wi]

@@jaegermeister1968 after you nodded to each other is that when the “relationship” really took off? If you’re looking for a gimp mask bell me as I sell them !

[@paul-ie6wi]

@@jaegermeister1968 when you nodded is that when the “fun” started for both of you ? I hear you both are regulars at the blue lagoon bar in Copenhagen!

[@deltashad]

In the UK it was sold as a 'Lotus Carlton' as we have Vauxhalls, on the continent it was sold as a Lotus Omega, as everywhere other than Britain the' Vauxhall Carlton' was called 'Opel Omega'. It was and still is an incredibly quick car. They took the engine from the Carlton/Omega GSi (3000cc 24v) an already quick motor in its day, bored it out to 3600cc then stuck on two T25 turbo's. A limited run of 950 were made. Top speed - +176 mph (283 km/h) A very special and collectable machine.

[@manux9597]

That's the "oficial" top speed, the real speed it's 304 km.

[@alexkeohane143]

Init🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@64bakes]

They also used the same 24v CIH engine in the Vauxhall / Opel Senator. It had about 204bhp in standard form. Irmscher also bored the engine out to 4 litres and tuned it to create a fast Irmscher Senator, which looks almost as good as the Lotus Carlton with it's bodykit. The Irmscher senator only had 286bhp compared to the monstrous 380-ish from the Lotus Carlton.

[@Jiepers]

I got the 3000 24v in my late omega. I just loved to see the faces of bimmer drivers when they were restricted to 250kmh while i zoom by over 300kmh. No it wasn't stock.

[@NeilLackey1]

It was the fastest production saloon car made at the time, I saw one in Birmingham once and it was like someone has pressed the fast forward button on a VCR when it drove off, a fantastic car and still is

[@Cavemale2000]

That's like trying to catch the Space Shuttle on a moped....

[@hermanman8235]

😂😂😂

[@exactormortis7433]

yeah, I would have used 7.62x39.

[@darkstalker1387]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Simon.ivarsson]

My former boss had one of those. Tuned of course. He let me drive it a few times. In one occasion I had to show a corvette who was the fastest kid on the block. The speedo goes to 300 km/h, but I was above and beyond.. OMG what a car

[@korkunge]

Vilket år var det? Var din chefs Johan? Ifrån videon Open Johan - Motornörd?

[@Simon.ivarsson]

@@korkunge Det kan ha varit 2005.. Min chef hette Lennart och har inte varit med i Motornörd

[@tommyaffs4549]

These things standard were extremely capable of seeing off almost anything on the road let alone with exhaust and intake modded and tuned they were and still are to this day a different league

[@2taktarn_737]

@@korkunge kanske är Johan i videon:) han kändes lite stolt över videon på intervjun

[@flat-earther]

hi vibabino have you become a flat earther yet? If not I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.

[@emilianocaprili4160]

"We must catch him!" "Who?" "Nothing, it doesn't matter anymore."

[@kevinvine681]

5

[@purefire6429]

This car was used in numerous armed robberies in the UK and the people were never caught as they were simply too fast, getting away from police cars and helicopters alike.

[@HORSER9999]

not possible that car would run away from helicopter

[@topsecret1837]

@@HORSER9999Quite possible. One thing to, with a helicopter, chase down a car in the middle of a winding road on open fields or hills, but on a long stretch of highway through a forest and traffic the human eye has its limits.

[@Gecko....]

​@@HORSER9999 wrong, search for "dodge hellcat outruns helicopter" it's a chase from LA on a highway, the helicopter can't keep up.

[@robinhooduk8255]

@@HORSER9999 its a fact i believe it was either the M6 or M1 cant remember exactly, but in the early 90s police choppers only had 2hrs of fuel, the story of it "outrunning" choppers was half true, it could catch up but by the time it did the choppers would have to go to base and refuel.

[@ChronicCraftsman]

40 RA,,,stolen from Evesham and was used in ram raids in Birmingham and the west midlands?

[@longtailgt]

0:44 at this moment they should have realized they were never gonna catch him

[@exactormortis7433]

well they had plate number. When this boy returned home, there were a couple of cops .... a heavy gas foot correlated with brain cassette.

[@harshitbhave3387]

You remembers this Carlton momemt?

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

@@exactormortis7433 in sweden (and most places) police cant do shit with the plate number. They might turn up to your house, but unless you confess you were driving, they have no right to do anything.

[@exactormortis7433]

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j yeah, that's maybe true, and that's what that crazy behavior in traffic is based on. Perhaps the seizure of a crime instrument would help or else a spike stop. Thus, permanent safety risks can be reduced in traffic.

[@streamofconsciousness5826]

They would have had to follow him incase he wrecked it, they probably kept on that road and at that speed for a long time hoping this guy did not cause someone to panic and get killed.

[@Ralph2]

The way it squats down at 0:42 and accelerates is very impressive!

[@M4tIn]

especially that it squats down at 120 kph!

[@chrishazel9564]

I remember this video back in 2001..can't believe it's still on you tube

[@jrockhardest]

KZbin was started in 2005

[@Robin-hi8oq]

@@jrockhardest there are other platforms than youtube but i guess he meant "can't believe it's still here (on the internet)"

[@serz1885]

chek auti rs4 bmw m5 in russia thats the best

[@fabi_v6746]

@@serz1885 well this car is from 1991 and was the fastest sedan

[@serz1885]

Pudding900 what this to do with anything

[@kuningas7]

Ah the old classic from time before KZbin even existed.

[@M-M-M-M]

I heard that the police is still trying to catch up :-)) Whoever was the driver, he has become an internet legend, this video has been around for at least 20-25 years

[@patricksandeberg8184]

According to news from 2000. (That’s when the video was from). The car was stolen and used in robberies.

[@TeamDriftEVO]

@@patricksandeberg8184 it was the registered owner driving it - i happen to know him, car is for sale atm here in Sweden :-)

[@HORSER9999]

@@patricksandeberg8184 if it was thieves, they would not use the blinker when overtaking :D also he always waited till there are no cars coming from the opposite side till he started to overtake. it was def the owner of it

[@patricksandeberg8184]

@@HORSER9999 its a police car in pursuit. It was on the news later that the car had been stolen and used in robberies. But maybe it was the owner of the car making the robberies. 😉

[@The_Schimpanski]

@@TeamDriftEVO What a pity he never uploaded videos by himself. (I mean videos in which he is filming out of the cocpit.)

[@web_devs]

The uploader is legend for still reading the comments after 12 years ...

[@DonnyMacG]

I only ever saw a Lotus Carlton in a showroom before they went on sale. My friend bought a pre sale order ticket for £2500, he sold the ticket six months later for £18,000. These cars are now (2019) going for £120,000 in the UK. Wow!!!

[@fyllefinken]

This was 2009 you know, the time when 480p was concidered high quality on youtube. It's not HD but damn better than 240p right?

[@precesionnoreaster1507]

this was posted in 2013 when 720p was considered HD on KZbin

[@racecardriverrr4201]

@@precesionnoreaster1507 HD is and always will be 720p

[@M-M-M-M]

@@precesionnoreaster1507 the video itself is at least 25 years old. I have watched it waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before anyone even thought about creating youtube. There is no better quality version than this one.

[@peni80085]

@@M-M-M-M your mom is 25 yo

[@M-M-M-M]

@@peni80085 uhum, what is it that you wanna say, bud? My mother passed away more than 30 years ago, if you are interested. Was there anything else you'd like to ask?

[@MrNickS2]

Saw this video the first time +10 years ago. It's still one of my favourites. Thanks for uploading in high quality;-)

[@KabonkNo1]

And just like that, 12 more years went by. What happened?

[@GRAHAMAUS]

I remember having a bit of a blast on the M45 in my rare 1974 Firenza HPF which could top 120mph (OK, not fast nowadays) and a Lotus Carlton came past as if I was stationary. He gave me a casual wave as one rare Vauxhall owner to another. Nice bit of road that...

[@paulmartin2429]

Droop Snoot , yeah I had a tuned up one with high lift cam twin side daft Webber’s over-bored pistons with an overdrive gearbox, certainly quicker than 120mph from memory 🎉

[@GRAHAMAUS]

@@paulmartin2429 what was the reg? I owned another in the 80s that fits this description, owner had rolled it and I rescued it from the insurer's scrap pile. It was too much work for me, but I sold it on and it's still around.

[@paulmartin2429]

@@GRAHAMAUS sorry I can’t remember now long past my memory sell by date! 😛

[@SteliosRcdrift]

I had an opel omega 1.8 115hp.at 2005 i got it with 200.000km.i kept it for 2 years adding 50000km.the car was bought in 1989.i sold it to a friend until 270.000km,hesold it too.Not one mechanical or electrical problem in 16 years.just one pump relay. All the electronics said Bosch made in germany.amazing car.when it was raining it was apleasure also...quality cars back then(not safer though).

[@monza40]

About 20 years ago, i guess. Later, the police found the the car and the cars owner in the city of Karlstad, but the owner diden´t of course not know who was driving at the time.

[@mnjaa11]

Kor du har denna infoen fra? Lurt på i mange år kor biln kom ifra

[@hondamanvtec2894]

Didnt they get the licens plate ? It' should have take 2 weeks Top

[@mnjaa11]

?

[@RoninAnr1]

@@mnjaa11 En då bilskollärare i staden Nyköping/linköping - minns inte vilken stad längre,,,ägde en sådan bil, Men ingen kunde bevisa att det var han som körde,,, Är fortfarande förare som är ansvarig för förseelsen ;-)

[@mnjaa11]

RoninAnr1 mener sjåføren her er norsk, etter ryktene vertfall

[@mockngbrdy]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnd... it's gone

[@geirmyklebust]

but, they got the cars registration number.

[@diskokulan4206]

But in sweden they need to see the driver to give them a sentence and they didnt see him here atleast not in the video so seeing the plates doesnt matter :)

[@geirmyklebust]

In theory he is free to go, after a good deal trouble with the police.

[@DannyoRaiden]

only commenting if its fire konstiga regler men bra

[@casscroute8706]

south park

[@Turtle_Legs]

Ever since this video was new, I stop by at least twice a year for a good laugh :) Edit: hearting my comment after 6 years, my man! Edit 2: awww he took my heart away...

[@geirmyklebust]

why? they got his registration number.

[@extec101]

@@geirmyklebust in sweden it is the driver that is at fault and not the owner and owner dont need by law to tell who drove the car and the driver dont got caught so its a loss for the police.

[@blackcoffee6068]

Here 3/31/21 lol.

[@chrisbrooke540]

I used to have one of these. I was cruising at 130 kph on a straight stretch of the SS7 between Villa Laterno and Casal di Principe near Naples one day when a Mini came up behind me. An impatient Neapolitan driver was at the wheel flashing his lights at me. I dropped from 6th to 4th and floored it. I saw a Carabinieri enter the highway at Casal, let off the gas, and looked down. 245 kph and the Mini was nowhere in sight.

[@steri0412]

Vilka är här från Motor blog of Sweden?

[@adamhlali8106]

Sush. Jag är inte här.

[@post_Pokemon_go]

Jag

[@kapral_jedziniak]

I had an omega evo 500, one of two in Poland. The car may not have had much power, but up to 250 km/h it drove wonderfully and you couldn't feel that speed. The suspension was of course made by Lotus and it did it perfectly. I sold it for pennies and after a month the new owner completely wrecked it. In this way another of the 500 cars produced disappeared.

[@ColdScreenStudios]

Omg.. Lotus Carlton/Omega is probably the sickest car of its time. When it was sold, there was no police car that could catch up with it and apparently there still isnt many :O

[@fyllefinken]

As far as I know the police saw the driver. Before the recording started they were side by side for a little while and the officer recognized the driver. They had encounters before and the officer knew who he was on sight.

[@kevinjredmond1129]

8:50 pm & it's still light out, that blows my mind being down here in Chicago

[@matthewschiebout7384]

try 12 hours from sunrise to sunset up north in Alaska towards the end of winter. a couple feet of snow everywhere, highs in the 20's, lows in the single digits. Dead of winter, -40 or -50 sometimes, 4 hours of daylight. Now that's weird. First year I was stunned!

[@martingoldfire]

@@matthewschiebout7384 Some places here in Norway, next door to Sweden, the sun doesn't set in summer and doesn't rise in winter. Like in Alaska, further north than you apparently :-P

[@nkt1]

In the Scottish Highlands, the sun doesn’t set until after 10pm at the height of summer, and it’s twilight until sunrise, 6 hours later.

[@jmfjcas6014]

In early 90 in DTM series, Omega was not competitors for anyone. But in the civilian version as the Lotus Omega, he was a beast.

[@Zirrex1]

It’s different cars - road version of dtm omega is evolution 500

[@1337BananaL33TVostok]

Lol fuck pulling over when you're in a car like that

[@Gynkys]

i love how this is the first video that comes up when u search lotus omega:d

[@michael2305]

Lotus omega: CYAAA Swedish Police: FITTA!

[@gladiatoralmousa5689]

Michael S. 😂

[@bajatg]

ULA BRITA FITTA SMITTA!

[@StuartOliver83]

Amazing car and when new they tried to ban it as cops couldn’t catch it lol

[@pd4165]

Complete bollocks - it wasn't as fast as many sports cars - and when has anyone tried to ban sports cars?

[@HSD.]

@@pd4165 yeah but for that Time/Era that was Rapid

[@jonathoncheney]

There’s a lotus Carlton in Britain that was used used for armed robberies it was known as 40RA the uk police had nothing at the time that could catch the car or robbers it even lost a helicopter on the M6 in a straight line they where never caught the car has never been recovered ( to my knowledge ) it’s a big icon in the uk

[@FrodoTEST]

@@pd4165 It was the fastest production sedan and could easily reach 300 km/h in 5th gear meanwhile it had a 6 speed corvett gearbox. After engine tuneing you could reach 340 km/h which is something crazy even now.

[@Flaco1982patrick]

@@pd4165 Lotus took them to testing at Mugello race track, Ferrari Testdrivers complained about it, well they just couldn't keep up, so they banned the Lotus from driving on the track.

[@abbzb2083]

I worked for gm back in the day, our branch had one as a demonstrator for a bit, it was known as Black Death, saw many people get out of that car ill. I never took it out the dealership myself, don’t know if it was fear or respect

[@calimero1569]

thats ace man

[@nightlightabcd]

Did I just see a police car pass another car into oncoming traffic at the crest of a hill at 2:21 just barely missing on coming cars? This cop is driving more reckless than the Lotus!

[@AlexYeets]

1:40 that saab even sounds like a jet

[@matty_lam_937]

That legend in the Lotus... Deepest respect...

[@alexday5892]

I had this video in its lower quality back in the day and knew it was 100% genuine. I have been at the Lotus factory and seen them fly off the start line on the test track. They are like sh1t off a shovel. 3.5 litre twin Garrett turbos on a lightened subframe with Lotus suspension. It held the record as the fastest 5 seat production car for some time. Top speed of 175mph. But some went over that 😜. Amazing car !! Thanks for posting the HQ vid

[@Audipowerlt]

WOW REALLY 9K QUALITY!!!!

[@yungarty]

🤡

[@pelimies1818]

How many Volvos did you see?

[@AngelEditz123]

@ McLarenMercedes: the Italian Police now have Lotus Evoras. Wise choice (though unpatriotic). In this video you can hear the brakes of the Saab complaining as they slow down from 200k to 100k...

[@ViscountAlbany]

instead of running away he should have just said he was an illegal immigrant, that would get you let off in Sweden

[@joneslecones2168]

The sad thing about this comment is that it is actually true :/

[@sri140ash]

ViscountAlbany same here in the U.K.

[@fickfock8169]

illegal immigrants are not allowed to own and drive car

[@ViscountAlbany]

Hmm yes, i'm sure *illegal* immigrants would pay attention to vehicle licensing laws.

[@fickfock8169]

sure, but they cant afford cars

[@deancrudgington1304]

Was expecting it to have turned round and cone back the other way!! 😃

[@GreyerShade]

"Do you know why I pulled you over? Because I let you?" 😂 🤣

[@cbrboy76]

Loved the lotus carlton, remember it being launched ans saw it at the NEC motor show, they wanted it banning in the UK because the police said it was the only car they could not catch.

[@paulg5811]

Wasnt a stolen one used in like 9 bank robberies never caught them

[@juhoheikkila4299]

@@paulg5811 idk if it was stolen but it was a hot getaway vehicle and no cop car could catch it or keep up with it

[@pd4165]

Police wanting a car banned for being fast? Absolute BS. There have always been fast cars - the police make do with the fastest they can afford, which is never as fast as a proper sports car. There was talk in the press that the LC was a bad idea, but the press also campaigned against Cobras in the 60s.

[@cbrboy76]

@@pd4165 the LC 250 brought an end to the 250cc L plate laws coz it was so mental, lol i was a 350lc man. No its true the police did want the lotus carlton banning and some MP's brought the matter up in the house of parliment. I was around when it made the headlines.

[@bigal3055]

@@pd4165 There is truth to attempt to get it banned in the U.K. They were the gold standard of getaway vehicles back then and the police had nothing at all that could touch them. Cross county policing wasn't what it is these days, police helicopters were few and far between and CCTV cameras along the main routes were only just starting to appear. No matter what the rozzers were using to run them down, as soon as one of these things got a clear run on a motorway in the early hours, ten times out ten, they were gone. It wasn't the police themselves, but the ACPO, which was essentially council of chief police officers, who wanted to ban them from the roads. It was pretty well covered in the press at the time, with at least one major newspaper launching a campaign in support of the ACPO's proposal.

[@alexw4638]

Dude this was the second fastest streetlegal Sedan at it's time (283Km/h) right after Alpina B10 Biturbo (291Km/h). Based on the german Opel Omega with 3L inline six engine, Lotus modified it to 3.6L with Biturbo which gained 377hp. In GB they sold it under the Name Lotus Carlton afaik.

[@grahamw56]

Correct.

[@MarcelPolman]

Now imagine how relatively easy it would have been to make it a bit lighter, tune it up a bit. It could go Hypercar speeds. Legendary car.

[@renizer]

hot damn, that lotus thing hauls :D

[@planes124]

Covert Person no they didn’t. They tried too

[@имяфамилия-ы3ы2ю]

Кто от Асанова?

[@rustammurtazin6670]

Плюс

[@666marq]

Minus. Ne znaju pacana.

[@sixunity1171]

"OH hAHa mY aUdi a4 CAn Go fASteR" shut the fuck up, this was one of the fastest cars at the time, it was faster than the fastest ferrari

[@MrChristoffervik]

1:55. hva tenker de med????? hadde jeg sittet i bilen som de nesten meide inn i hadde jeg anmeldt forholdet. Det er rett og slett for grovt. Føreren har IKKE evnen til og føre bilen i den hastigheten.

[@reidwright264]

Don’t know how this is in my feed, but glad I watched. Wow! After cop gets behind Him, 35 seconds He is out of sight!

[@daveabbott]

Back in 92 I went to buy a part from a Vx dealer in the UK and he input the part number incorrectly and priced just one front brake disc for this crazy car. It was £940!

[@ShaiyanHossain]

One does not expect to catch up to a Lotus Omega that easily

[@erirocit]

Mmm :) Lotus Omega - what a legend!! :))

[@amoghhampiholi820]

Legend has it that the Lotus never stopped and kept moving

[@CyberPun]

So high quality that my eyes got sucked onto the video and took residence.

[@Queqaco]

read pinned comment dumb

[@GinToni_]

This car came whit officially 377HP on the paper, and Mercedes Benz whit Bmw going to the judge to Ban this car!! In reality they came whit over 400 HP and 690NM!!!

[@mikeyb444]

Now, that's what I call a car! Beautiful to see

[@piktor6494]

if this video is high quality, 480p then i don't want to know what's low quality...

[@fyllefinken]

Do you notice when this video was posted? It was old by then. 480p was the highest KZbin supported back then. 140p was still around you know...

[@WhiteLion2013]

+Piktor99 Dude don't comfuse it with the HD 720 or 1080p HQ is this 480 p ..But yet again in those pixels we can have good or bad quality it depends from the prototype video's quality !!

[@MrD79]

+Piktor99 :) This video is probably older than you, sir and at least 10 years older than KZbin.

[@flonx1463]

+Piktor99 allmost 7 years old now ...

[@pacol1n]

It is actually SUPER HIGH quality - compared to the same footage but watched on a 14" CRT screen and 240p effective resolution :)

[@mikael2545]

Probably the best car commercial ever.

[@michaelcarney6280]

In the UK it was called a Vauxhall Lotus Carlton. I suppose in Europe It was a Opel Lotus Omega!

[@harrymanback8827]

What are they driving , a yugo ?

[@illitero]

What Yugo that you know of reaches 120+ mph?

Saab 9-3 2.0T

[@alexandermenck6609]

If they drive a 9-3 2.0T why do they even try?

[@Speedcore4L]

1:00 WTF ???

[@Speedcore4L]

***** no no no, cop nothing see anything @1:00, crazy.

[@TheVessapaperimuumio]

Contrary to some opinions, I think this time the unmarked police car's driver was very cautious, which is not always the case. Sometimes they are reckless idiots. However, at 0:40 it's obvious they lost him unless they have another unit available in the direction he's traveling, and he's not a total and complete amateur. They had no chance. What is going on at 1:40? Is the police driver not even trying, or are the Swedish cops limited to 200 km/h, as if that's supposed to be somehow safer according to some feminist bureaucrat? I don't know the exact specs of this car, but if it's the newer model even with lowercase "t", the engine produces 173 hp. Top speed should be in excess of 230 km/h.

[@bovedli]

Yeah but the acceleration is horrible and this road is not exactly safe to do top speed runs.

[@nkt1]

Maybe they didn’t fancy travelling at 140mph. A puncture at that speed would be fatal.

[@StarHorseLover2012]

I like the quote form British Police at the time: ""We simply haven't been able to get near the thing and it looks unlikely that we ever will".

[@victorvandyke9898]

Yeah, I loved the very high quality of this video!

[@Noony79]

1990 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 5.2 seconds and achieve 0-100-0 mph in less than 17 seconds (straight out of Wiki). Its a 30 year old saloon. That's incredible. My 2017 Golf R "may" just beat it of the blocks but it would quickly smash it. The Lotus Carlton still is a serious car. Which I could afford one

[@KaRboNCHIK2108]

Русский комментатор. "Блять! Дак они же не догнали?) Реально валит."

[@guy4469]

the cop said to his mate...throw all the porn out of the window and the films it weighs a tone..we can go faster ......

[@fidelcatsro6948]

hahaha

[@philipdavey9182]

Saw one of these just once, as it left it a little late (or so I thought) coming out in front of me, from the Hethel road, Norfolk, (the home of Lotus) onto the B1113 going southbound. Darkened glass, unmarked black bodywork. I need not have worried; by the time I passed his joining road, he was 300 yards ahead of me, making me appear as though I was stationary. Strange the way these things stay in the memory, when you see an outstanding car.

[@xenodrift3208]

Bro said gtg after being afk for 10 seconds

[@hushcolours]

The Lotus' guy (or girl?) would have plenty of time to go off road and hide :-)

[@tonym3598]

2:05 volvo driver pissed at cop

[@mah0aga]

"jävla polis!"

[@jamiesmith6838]

Absolutely smoked them! Amazing.

[@Eviction76]

That's why they tried to ban it here in England

[@23492727]

I thought Scandinavian all behave well and have no crimes. Didn't know they can be such outlaw.

[@BiodegradeableMan]

Yawn, ok so we know the Swedish police do not aggressively chase speeders, they do not use road blocks or radio ahead and they do not use spike sticks. All these vids showing police chasers in Sweden are bollocks, there is zero risk of being caught unless you breakdown or crash!

[@yamahass66]

Stop your lies, they have spike sticks. And also they are trying to stop people.

[@sparrowlt]

In Getaway in stockholm 2 one police car tried to ram them when he came across them head on... missed by a couple of inches acording to Mr.A

[@user-wq9mw2xz3j]

on these roads, police rarely even drove on them. I the city or on major motorways its much harder to get away. Although now, it's harder on these roads too as there are cameras, so you need a mask

[@tekk_maniac]

I love the old Lotus Omega!

[@geektoro]

Looked like they were chasing a ghost Lotus . puff ! and it disappears.

[@geirmyklebust]

its not any "ghost", they got his registration number.

[@valgeirsamuels528]

What type of saab is police driving?

[@joejoejoejoejoejoe4391]

1.02 overtaking on a blind crest ?

[@jwagner1993]

go omega !!!

[@tanoliam]

lotus Vs volvo Police... lotus Wins....FATALITY !

[@jagkanloggain]

"Police car is an un-marked Saab 9-3 2.0t and therefore a bit slow."

@@kicosger5909 til og med omega 3000 hadde toppfart på 250kmt

[@MDDeGrande1994]

@Kicos Ger Lotus Carlton* (or Vauxhall Lotus Carlton if you will). It's basically a Vauxhall Carlton tuned by Lotus. In rest of the Europe it was known as the Opel Omega and it was a basis for the Australian Holden Commodore.

[@heinz490]

3.6 377 bhp against 150 bhp

[@Soulvex]

its not a race, just highlighting the pace of the omega against an average car.

[@WymiataczPlays]

not even average... the saab is a quite good car the ''average'' may be a 120hp car... that saab should have 173bhp if i think right

[@Soulvex]

Wymiatacz Plays its about average these days, sorry.. back then it was above average. still is slightly but not much.

[@Andy-Fox]

Is this mariestad? on E20 towards Lugnås? Tought I recognised this road? :D was driving today looks very diffrent.

[@Louic099]

Correct. Allthough not that different today

[@marknc9616]

Police got his license tag at 0:35 and his vehicle description. The police probably picked him up at home later that day.

[@karlsundbeck1028]

Mark NC yes but in Sweden the police need to catch you in the act so even if they se the licens plate they can’t do anything.

[@ThorsteinKlingenberg]

Sure, they know what car it is and with the registration information they know who owns the car. They can ask the owner who drove the car at that time and the driver can either say who (yeah, not likely) or just refuse to tell them. At that point the police can't do anything more. They need to be able to prove which individual drove the car, based on the video, they can't identify the driver so nothing happens. The owner isn't likely to get off with a warning if he's stopped for something after this though..

[@WeirdSpaghetti]

The car in question was stolen

[@LuffarrN]

Mariestad mot Lugnås, Västra Götaland, Skaraborg :)

[@weeruz]

Swedish police really need some interceptors

[@JohnDoe-bd5sz]

+weeruz Before they were driving mainly Volvo's. A volvo is essentially a farm vehicle, with the plow raised or dismounted.

[@weeruz]

John Doe Haha xD

[@victoriachisnall1575]

+John Doe I doubt that you fool there's plenty of volvos out here that murder super cars bet you have a micra

[@cupcayuk]

There are also micras that murder your precious volvos in no time :^)

[@plottwist1733]

@@JohnDoe-bd5sz The 850 T5 was fast though. The police used them as motorway interceptors here in the UK back in the late 90's-early 2000's.

[@worldwarwill1278]

Earliest know clip of the ghost rider lol.

[@MrRafterPL]

How big is the ticket for such driving?

[@punka92]

+MrRafterPL Im not sure but I think they take your licenses if you go above the speed limit by 30kmh. And fleeing from the Police lands you in jail of course. But if you make a clean getaway in sweden they can't charge you for anything since they have to catch you in the act, so this guy got no problem from the police because of this

[@fredricakerman2776]

+Jack Brandt It's not illegal to run from police in Sweden. It's not even illegal to escape from prison

[@JohnDoe-bd5sz]

+Jack Brandt Trying to outrun the cops like that will not land you in jail, unless you cause a major crash...And even then its not given that you end up in jail.

[@BITTYBOY121]

That Lotus 3.6 twin-turbo Carlton/Omega was amazing ! - See it fly ! :-)

[@johnj3577]

What a beast of a car that was. We had Senator 3.0 24v and they were pretty quick, but not Lotus quick! I'd have easily kept with him on my bike though.

[@napsternapster402]

haci 5 años que ves to el vedio todabia me encanta hhhh

[@LazYurix]

не догнал...

[@tejjensen9402]

Hvilken pixel var en Lotus Omega?

[@wahpanda1520]

what year