Opel X-treme

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Well i have Autoweek and all that crap and the last issue i recieved had a story about the Opel X-treme. Since most of us Americans never see Opels i was quite shocked at how awesome this car looks. its like a street legal touring car and good god i would love to drive around in one. You have to talk to your passenger through headphones, i thought that was quite funny.

Anyone see this car?

http://www.autoweek.com/specials/galleries/xtreme/1126opelc.jpg
 
isn't Opel owned by GM? i do believe they took it from a GM actually.

Its a pretty awesome looking car, its like that Mustang Cobra-R color which i like, even though the cobras arent that great looking.
 
Originally posted by vat_man
This thing's just a street legal DTM Astra, isn't it?

Where did Opel source the V8 for this thing from?
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Okay - I had a little trawl around.

Believe this - it's a Northstar V8!!! Bizarro!

Also, did you realise the Astra's got gullwing doors! Convenient in low ceiling underground car parks. Not.
 
Originally posted by vat_man


Okay - I had a little trawl around.

Believe this - it's a Northstar V8!!! Bizarro!

Also, did you realise the Astra's got gullwing doors! Convenient in low ceiling underground car parks. Not.
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When is someone going to put mini-van style sliding doors on cars? I think it could be done fairly easily. They'd just pop out and slide back. Think of all the space it would save. And the bumps and dings. How about my idiot friends that back out of the garadge with the passenger door open and rip it clean off!? What a wonderful idea ...

~LoudMusic
 
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When is someone going to put mini-van style sliding doors on cars? I think it could be done fairly easily. They'd just pop out and slide back. Think of all the space it would save. And the bumps and dings. How about my idiot friends that back out of the garadge with the passenger door open and rip it clean off!? What a wonderful idea ...

~LoudMusic
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Mmm - interesting. Tough to mount the hardware, though. You'd have a rather ugly slash down the flanks of the car for the door to roll-down (look down the side of a Voyager or a Tarago next time you see them.

You could set the rails up on the bottom or lower edges of the door space, but you're already pretty marginal for room getting in and out of the car now - and don't forget you've got structural beams there, so there probably wouldn't be enough room to mount the door and leave enough room to comfortably get in and out.

You could probably do it with a wagon, but with a sedan or hatchback, I don't think there'd be enough room to mount the door and provide the mechanism to open to door, put in position to slide, and then provide the hardware for it to slide down the flank of the car.

Nice idea, though.

Ah - in three year's time we'll be driving those scooter things... :rolleyes:
 
Ok, how about something that swivles at the rear bottom corner. It would just pop out and flip back.

Scooter schmooter. Until it can mix drinks on the way to work, it's not worth it.

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
Ok, how about something that swivles at the rear bottom corner. It would just pop out and flip back.

Scooter schmooter. Until it can mix drinks on the way to work, it's not worth it.

~LoudMusic
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As in swivels open like a normal door? Little confused...

That scooter thing looked pretty stable - wonder if you can get a tray and cabinet for it - maybe a little fridge or something..
 
As in ... it would twist from a bottom rear corner henge instead of swing. It would stay parrallel with the side of the car, but "flip" ... swivel, twist ... I can't get the right word ....

I'll make a pretty picture later, I'm already two hours late for work.

~LoudMusic
 
There were a few more great pictures of this car in the last issue of "Top Gear" magazine. I love it! :eek:
 
Originally posted by spaceviper
isn't Opel owned by GM? i do believe they took it from a GM actually.

Its a pretty awesome looking car, its like that Mustang Cobra-R color which i like, even though the cobras arent that great looking.
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Yes opel is owned by gm, and they are produced by gm, Only the speedster is the only non gm car, and it is made by lotus for gm....
 
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That would pretty much be it. Only I would have it hinge on the back corner. Maybe even the top.

Here is another example, only it lifts too high.

~LoudMusic
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I think those things are called scissor doors.

Wouldn't that be a problem in low ceiling car parks?
 
Originally posted by vat_man


I think those things are called scissor doors.

Wouldn't that be a problem in low ceiling car parks?
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Gee smart guy, that's why I said "only it lifts too high". Sheesh, some people ... (:

I would want it to hinge on the bottom rear. If the door wasn't too long, it should be able to flip back without going but a couple feet above the top of the car. And people are taller than that, so it shouldn't be a problem. The RX-7 'Gullwing' is hinged at the front and the doors are extreamly long. I can't imagine using that method anywhere and have it feasably work.

Another way would be to have them swing up to being on top of the car. I have no idea how to do the mechanics on that one though.

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic
Gee smart guy, that's why I said "only it lifts too high". Sheesh, some people ... (:

I would want it to hinge on the bottom rear. If the door wasn't too long, it should be able to flip back without going but a couple feet above the top of the car. And people are taller than that, so it shouldn't be a problem. The RX-7 'Gullwing' is hinged at the front and the doors are extreamly long. I can't imagine using that method anywhere and have it feasably work.

Another way would be to have them swing up to being on top of the car. I have no idea how to do the mechanics on that one though.

~LoudMusic
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Hey - like I've got any sort of attention span! Point made.

I wonder if there's some way you wrap the door over the top of the car? You would open the door out and then up, and as the door goes up it would tilt over the roof - where it would probably hit the other door - unless you went with frameless doors and the windows wound down automatically as the doors went over the roof.

Geez - it'd take about 300 kilos of hardware - no wonder no-one's bothered!
 
Originally posted by vat_man


Hey - like I've got any sort of attention span! Point made.

I wonder if there's some way you wrap the door over the top of the car? You would open the door out and then up, and as the door goes up it would tilt over the roof - where it would probably hit the other door - unless you went with frameless doors and the windows wound down automatically as the doors went over the roof.

Geez - it'd take about 300 kilos of hardware - no wonder no-one's bothered!
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Heh heh, no joke. The door would have to have an arm that attached from the bottom of the door, to the top of the car. That way when the door went up and over, the roof would be inbetween the arm and the door. But with the lightweight polymers that they're using these days ...

How about no doors at all? Jeep is doing a pretty good job with that (:

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic


Heh heh, no joke. The door would have to have an arm that attached from the bottom of the door, to the top of the car. That way when the door went up and over, the roof would be inbetween the arm and the door. But with the lightweight polymers that they're using these days ...

How about no doors at all? Jeep is doing a pretty good job with that (:

~LoudMusic
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Sydney's the sort of town that regularly throws down an inch or more of rain in an hour - friends of ours run a Wrangler and, well, let's just say they don't wear white when it looks like rain. ;)

You could always weld the doors shut and climb out the windows...
 
Originally posted by vat_man


Sydney's the sort of town that regularly throws down an inch or more of rain in an hour - friends of ours run a Wrangler and, well, let's just say they don't wear white when it looks like rain. ;)

You could always weld the doors shut and climb out the windows...
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How about a car with the door on the front? Like the BMW Isetta ...

http://images.google.com/images?q=bmw+isetta&num=100&hl=en&lr=lang_en&newwindow=1

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(:

~LoudMusic
 
Originally posted by LoudMusic


How about a car with the door on the front? Like the BMW Isetta ...

~LoudMusic
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Wonder if the airbag would go off when you slammed the door? :D

Remember them in the movie 'Brazil'?
 
Originally posted by vat_man


Wonder if the airbag would go off when you slammed the door? :D

Remember them in the movie 'Brazil'?
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I'm not sure that I saw that movie .... how about the television show "Family Matters"? The nerdy nextdoor neighbor, Steve Urkel, drove one.

~LoudMusic
 

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