I'd agree that the doors are a bit rust-happy (mine is just one or two away from owning the full collection of classic rust spots, blisters and other disfigurements), and pulling to the left seems to be one of those quirks you either have and learn to live with or don't have and wonder why so many people seem to be complaining about it.
However, based on your other comments, I honestly don't recognise the car you're referring to. For sure there are plenty of other cars out there that are more "chuckable" around the twisty bits, but for its size and weight the Omega is surprisingly nimble (and I'm driving one of the heavier models on the standard suspension - ask an MV6 owner how well theirs corner!).
The brakes aren't razor sharp, but I've never had a problem stopping where I needed to stop and I've never found myself hanging off the seatbelt because the brakes decided to suddenly snap on following a marginally stronger than required brake pedal application - in other words they feel pretty nicely balanced to me, strong enough to haul a ton and a half of car to a halt pretty briskly when needed, but with a sufficiently progressive feel to allow very smooth jerk-free braking from any speed.
The autobox... it occasionally holds onto a gear a bit longer than I'd have expected, but the only times I've found it really holding onto a gear for excessive lengths of time are either if I've accidentally slipped the selector into 3 instead of D, or if the specific combination of revs and speed are holding steady at a point just below where the box wants to change. Most of the time the box is quite eager to change up, especially in normal mode - I either have to absolutely floor the accelerator or switch the box to sport mode in order for it to not shift up through the range pretty quickly.
I'm a shade under 6' and not exactly lightly built - there are only two cars I've driven where I can achieve a genuinely comfortable driving position which doesn't leave my left knee feeling like it's about to dislocate itself after a couple of hours behind the wheel, and where my size 11's have enough space to move around in the footwell without tangling up in the pedals or each other. One is the Merc E-class, the other is the Omega. They're also the only two RWD cars I've driven... All of the FWD ones (including both the first and second generation Vectra) had an utterly crap driving position as far as I was concerned - fine for short journeys but far from ideal for longer distances.
The Omega certainly isn't perfect, but it sounds like you've either got a really poor example of an otherwise rather decent and underrated piece of German auto engineering, or it's simply not the type of car you get along with. Which is OK - I know quite a few people who rave about cars that I find bland at best, deeply unpleasant at worst.
OTOH, I know what you mean about VX servicing... which is why I stopped using them quite a while ago. But then, how often does the media kick up a fuss about the price and quality of main dealer servicing in general - with few exceptions it seems to be pretty standard for the factory-branded workshops to charge OTT prices for average quality work. Find yourself a decent independent place, one that bothers to take the time to get to know you, remembers every bit of work they've ever done on your car even if it's been ages since you last called in, are willing to squeeze you in for emergency work when the VX workshop up the road with 10 times the capacity but probably less than 5 times the workload tell you to come back in a weeks time, and charge you a fair rate for the work that actually needs to be done but is quite happy to hand back the keys without any money changing hands for small jobs or investigative work.
However, based on your other comments, I honestly don't recognise the car you're referring to. For sure there are plenty of other cars out there that are more "chuckable" around the twisty bits, but for its size and weight the Omega is surprisingly nimble (and I'm driving one of the heavier models on the standard suspension - ask an MV6 owner how well theirs corner!).
The brakes aren't razor sharp, but I've never had a problem stopping where I needed to stop and I've never found myself hanging off the seatbelt because the brakes decided to suddenly snap on following a marginally stronger than required brake pedal application - in other words they feel pretty nicely balanced to me, strong enough to haul a ton and a half of car to a halt pretty briskly when needed, but with a sufficiently progressive feel to allow very smooth jerk-free braking from any speed.
The autobox... it occasionally holds onto a gear a bit longer than I'd have expected, but the only times I've found it really holding onto a gear for excessive lengths of time are either if I've accidentally slipped the selector into 3 instead of D, or if the specific combination of revs and speed are holding steady at a point just below where the box wants to change. Most of the time the box is quite eager to change up, especially in normal mode - I either have to absolutely floor the accelerator or switch the box to sport mode in order for it to not shift up through the range pretty quickly.
I'm a shade under 6' and not exactly lightly built - there are only two cars I've driven where I can achieve a genuinely comfortable driving position which doesn't leave my left knee feeling like it's about to dislocate itself after a couple of hours behind the wheel, and where my size 11's have enough space to move around in the footwell without tangling up in the pedals or each other. One is the Merc E-class, the other is the Omega. They're also the only two RWD cars I've driven... All of the FWD ones (including both the first and second generation Vectra) had an utterly crap driving position as far as I was concerned - fine for short journeys but far from ideal for longer distances.
The Omega certainly isn't perfect, but it sounds like you've either got a really poor example of an otherwise rather decent and underrated piece of German auto engineering, or it's simply not the type of car you get along with. Which is OK - I know quite a few people who rave about cars that I find bland at best, deeply unpleasant at worst.
OTOH, I know what you mean about VX servicing... which is why I stopped using them quite a while ago. But then, how often does the media kick up a fuss about the price and quality of main dealer servicing in general - with few exceptions it seems to be pretty standard for the factory-branded workshops to charge OTT prices for average quality work. Find yourself a decent independent place, one that bothers to take the time to get to know you, remembers every bit of work they've ever done on your car even if it's been ages since you last called in, are willing to squeeze you in for emergency work when the VX workshop up the road with 10 times the capacity but probably less than 5 times the workload tell you to come back in a weeks time, and charge you a fair rate for the work that actually needs to be done but is quite happy to hand back the keys without any money changing hands for small jobs or investigative work.