Bmw-beater from Vauxhall

So iconic has the Lotus version of the Vauxhall Carlton saloon become that its forebear is rarely mentioned any more. And that’s a shame, because the 177bhp GSI 3000 was good enough to trouble the BMW 535i. We said: “The engineers have managed to produce a chassis that allows you to exploit fully the extra performance without extracting too great a toll in other dynamic areas.”