followed by a beefy Carlton TS6000 ‘Thunder Saloon’ with the same. In short, Vauxhall had previous, but even so, it was a bold move to commission Lotus (then part of the GM stable) to make a ...

Still, despite driving the Carlton all the way from its home at the Vauxhall Heritage Centre in ... Porsche’s first saloon might have predated the Panamera by a decade and a half, had the ...

The Lotus Carlton is perhaps the most famous, but it also gave us the Chevette HSR, HP Firenza Droop Snoot and the Vauxhall VX4/90, arguably the first true performance saloon, at least from a non ...