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Originally posted by YDG
They are available here in the Uk, but are not selling well at all. In fact Vauxhall (UK name for Opel) are very disappointed with sales, and its mainly due to the fact you can buy a Lotus Elise for the same money and it runs rings round the Speedster (here known as the VX220
Still a damned fine car though!
UK version
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The Speedster/VX220 is built buy Lotus themselves! When it was first released, the motoring press went mad about it, saying it was better than the Lotus Elise, and Vauxhall expected lots of sales because of this.
Then a few months later Lotus launched, with no advance press info or releases, the new version of the Elise. The motoring press went mad again, saying that the new Elise was even better than the Speedster/VX220, and orders for the Speedster/VX220 dried up.
Vauxhall was not pleased
