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[siztenboots]

Concept car announced , developed at Opel's International Technical Development Center in Ruesselsheim, Germany

 

Speedster - Geneva Motor Show March 11th 1999

VX220 - Earls Court, London 19 Oct 1999 , confirmed to be made UK Auto Express 19 May 1999

 

Production 2.2 NA started late 2000

Production 2.2 NA finished early 2003

Production 2.0 turbo from 2003 , first availability Apr / May

Production 2.0 turbo finished 14th August 2005

 

7207 cars

 

2155 VX220 , 1214 NA , 941 Turbo

5052 Speedsters , 4052 NA , 1000 Turbo

 

Special editions: 100 Lightning Yellow , 65 VXR220 , 80 Scorpion Speedster Turbo

 

 

[Goosenka]

God how I hate that fcuking song.

[Mike (Cliffie)]

I really like the song and some of Yello's other stuff as well. 

[Graeme Lambert]

I'm with Mike on this one, makes me think of the movie (Bueller?... Bueller?... Bueller?...)

 

Some good shots in the above too, thanks for posting sizten.

 

G

[Zoobeef]

Hmm, the video says its blocked in my country. Has someone moved my house in the night?

[Rickwoo118]

Thanks for posting .Some interesting facts and figures. Wonder how many are left (an up to date number as the `how manys left isn't that accurate at the moment')

[Mike (Cliffie)]

Hmm, the video says its blocked in my country. Has someone moved my house in the night?

Doubtful, it is Doncaster which as we all know is as close as you can get to a foreign country without actually needing a passport.

[jonnyboy]

Now this is a really obscure and geeky fact but I think I know why that song is on there.......

 

Wasnt that tune on Lotus Turbo challenge on the Amiga back in the day? Would make it very tenuously relevant! 

[slindborg]

Yep registrations in late 2000

[siztenboots]

I'm sure I've got some of the figures and dates wrong , but just thought its about time we started to record as much info as we can.

 

I suspect Steve 2good will know plenty more about the first sales of each type.

[drunknmunky]

They also used that song in k9, just after he screwed the pooch!

[2GOOD]

Not sure exactly when production started, Back in 1999 Vauxhall gave the franchise of vx220 specialist to Baylis Gloucester & we (Haines & Strange Cheltenham, taken over by Baylis April 2000) had to give the 2 orders that we'd taken to them. Gloucester's demonstrator arrived much later than expected late 2000 early 2001 iirc & the first customer cars appeared in about Feb 2001. Gloucester didn't register any customers cars until March 2001. Cheltenham became vx220 specialists at some point in 2002, after Gloucester's salesman had left. Vauxhall increased the number of dealers from 50 to 75. There were plenty of 2001 model year cars sat in storage & stock of 2002 model year was building up, the car was supposed to be selling at the rate of 2000 a year in the UK & less than 500 were registered in the first year. Turbo announced early 2003. Demonstrators arrived in March 2003 & the first customer cars were delivered by about April or May (Frogman was the first customer of mine to take delivery). We were told the specification of 2003 model year 2.2's but to my knowledge none were ever built (they would've had the same clocks as a turbo plus some other changes) so I would say that 2.2 production ended late 2002 or early 2003

[Nikov]

I can't help but wonder how many are left.

[siztenboots]

"The Speedster's interesting exterior features include its front and rear lamp clusters. Aluminium extrusions contain the bulbs and lenses, and although they look innovative and expensive, they are cheap to make."

 

lol

[smiley]

Some good shots in the above too

 

Well thank you.

I made that after gathering all the foto´s from the heathel plant i could get my hands on. 

The numbers are based on the german speedster registration, wikipedia´s etc.

 

And i like Yello

[smiley]

Hmm, the video says its blocked in my country. Has someone moved my house in the night?

 

it´s blocked in germany also.

 

When using a normal song (ie not from the youtube free song store), it depends on the agreement youtube has with the country. In some it will display an add to buy the song on itunes, and in some countries where they did not get to an agreement, they just block the video completely.

[smiley]

Now this is a really obscure and geeky fact but I think I know why that song is on there.......

 

Wasnt that tune on Lotus Turbo challenge on the Amiga back in the day? Would make it very tenuously relevant! 

 

No. I just like that song.

[vocky]

due to the delay in sorting the 2.0 supercharged LSJ engine they chucked the z20let into the vx220 instead

[Graeme Lambert]

due to the delay in sorting the 2.0 supercharged LSJ engine they chucked the z20let into the vx220 instead

 

Ah well, at least some of us are going some way to rectifying that wrong.

 

G

[Claws]

Never heard about a proposed 03 spec NA, could have been interesting. If only the 2.0 SC was available in time, the VXR would have been epic out of the box