The steering is precise but doesn't offer much feedback.  Bumps are absorbed quite well and ride on the 205/65 R 15 tires is quite comfortable.  The 4-disc ABS brakes are strong but also lack feedback. 

 It is, overall, an admirable and well-though-out effort.  It is yet another car that has arrived belatedly and deserves to find a local audience.  The Omega may be a stranger to Philippine streets, but it has been soldiering on successfully in Europe for the past four years.  This means that a new one will soon be introduced.  However, it remains the best-selling executive car in Europe: 115,000 were sold last year alone. 

General Motors has also imported the sedan into the U.S. wearing Cadillac badges.  As the Cadillac Catera, only the 3.0-liter engine with the four-speed automatic is available.  The engine has been retuned for better low-end torque, as American driving habits favor rapid acceleration over top-speed cruising.   Sadly, the ad campaign introducing the Catera has been less than successful.  Ads replete with animated ducks portray the Catera as the "Caddy that zigs" (instead of zags, supposedly), and compare its brakes to large pizzas.  Not the best of comparisons, and the campaign soon became the laughingstock of the American ad industry. 

 There probably lies the greatest difficulty of the Omega here as well-being taken seriously.  Opel is known as a competent maker of small and midsize sedans, and its "German engineering with Japanese value" approach has been successful for the Vectra even after Opel's long absence.