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I can strongly recommend Murray in Edinburgh. I was in there last week picking my Esprit up after service/MOT and spent a good hour chatting with Brandon and Craig over coffee and a mince pie and having a good nosey around those Evoras. He's also got a 211 in there - rarely seen at dealers these days.
You will not go wrong buying from Brandon and as suggested its well worth a trip up here - make a weekend of it. I also know he has done deals and swaps with other dealers down South to help buyers out. If you really want one and it sounds like you do, you will make the effort. Go for it.
FYI, its taken quite a while to get his stock back up. For a long time he has struggled to get cars into the showroom as folk are hanging on to their cars and new ones get turned around quickly. Its a pretty healthy market up here and of course good news for Lotus.
You will not go wrong buying from Brandon and as suggested its well worth a trip up here - make a weekend of it. I also know he has done deals and swaps with other dealers down South to help buyers out. If you really want one and it sounds like you do, you will make the effort. Go for it.
FYI, its taken quite a while to get his stock back up. For a long time he has struggled to get cars into the showroom as folk are hanging on to their cars and new ones get turned around quickly. Its a pretty healthy market up here and of course good news for Lotus.
justin220 said:
I would recommend going for the 2+2 also. The 2+0 has no real benefits over the 2+2, only downsides IMO.
Murray Motors are excellent, why not fly up and make a weekend of it? Worth buying from them as you will be buying a good one.
the one negative is that in some specs the front seats are leather and the rears cloth which I think looks awful.Murray Motors are excellent, why not fly up and make a weekend of it? Worth buying from them as you will be buying a good one.
I would buy what works for you. I bought a 2+0 as will never have any need to carry rear passengers and I preferred the look / usability of the shelf and net in the rear.
XTR2Turbo said:
the one negative is that in some specs the front seats are leather and the rears cloth which I think looks awful.
I would buy what works for you. I bought a 2+0 as will never have any need to carry rear passengers and I preferred the look / usability of the shelf and net in the rear.
Fabric doesn't look amazing, no but no-one has every got in my car and said "fI would buy what works for you. I bought a 2+0 as will never have any need to carry rear passengers and I preferred the look / usability of the shelf and net in the rear.
k they look st". The only way to get leather rear seats is the premium leather option or premium sports. Most people who went for the premium leather did so to get something other than black.....but if you want black leather than 99% of all non-sports racers of them will have fabric rear seats. Have you see Cocoa brown. Yuk. That aside i genuinely don't see how the shelf is more usable than the seats though....look.......
EDIT : Not being a dick about it. Just don't see how the shelf is more usable. If you dont think the seats are worth the extra coin then not a problem, but my statement was that i don't think they have any drawbacks (money aside) over the shelf....but you can get people in the back in an emergency....or kids all the time
Edited by Lazydonkey on Friday 24th October 15:20
Edited by Lazydonkey on Friday 24th October 15:21
Edited by Lazydonkey on Friday 24th October 15:22
That's impressive loading.
The shelf is probably better for small items as it has aluminimum strip and a net along the front edge to stop things falling off if you brake hard.
We are probably at the margins though.
Personally cloth rears would bug me everytime I got in the car and it was not something I was aware of until I started looking so I was flagging as something that will be a negative to some.
I like the 2+0 spec - closer to a GT spec in my eyes.
But good to have the option either way
The shelf is probably better for small items as it has aluminimum strip and a net along the front edge to stop things falling off if you brake hard.
We are probably at the margins though.
Personally cloth rears would bug me everytime I got in the car and it was not something I was aware of until I started looking so I was flagging as something that will be a negative to some.
I like the 2+0 spec - closer to a GT spec in my eyes.
But good to have the option either way
Lazydonkey said:
XTR2Turbo said:
the one negative is that in some specs the front seats are leather and the rears cloth which I think looks awful.
I would buy what works for you. I bought a 2+0 as will never have any need to carry rear passengers and I preferred the look / usability of the shelf and net in the rear.
EDIT : Not being a dick about it. Just don't see how the shelf is more usable. If you dont think the seats are worth the extra coin then not a problem, but my statement was that i don't think they have any drawbacks (money aside) over the shelf....but you can get people in the back in an emergency....or kids all the time I would buy what works for you. I bought a 2+0 as will never have any need to carry rear passengers and I preferred the look / usability of the shelf and net in the rear.
I did wonder about the rear seats, the photos always looked like the rear seats where from a different car, almost grey compared to the black leather fronts, I even questioned silverstone that they had the correct pictures! I would much prefer leather all round, seems silly to skimp on this little detail, it can't have saved lotus anything in costs ! Might just get a MY12 S and lie to the Mrs about the cost "got it for £25k, bargin hey darling"
I did wonder about the rear seats, the photos always looked like the rear seats where from a different car, almost grey compared to the black leather fronts, I even questioned silverstone that they had the correct pictures! I would much prefer leather all round, seems silly to skimp on this little detail, it can't have saved lotus anything in costs ! Might just get a MY12 S and lie to the Mrs about the cost "got it for £25k, bargin hey darling"
T4NG0 said:
Doesn't premium pack ensure you have leather rear seats, rather than cloth ?
Also went 2+0 as preferred a 2 seater look rather than squashed 2+2 look.
Actually wish Lotus had made a 2 seater version to allow a lower roofline.
Yes, premium is leather rear seats and more leather on dash and sills, some extra carpets (i think), body coloured door handles and an extra badge on the dash (whoopee doo) Also went 2+0 as preferred a 2 seater look rather than squashed 2+2 look.
Actually wish Lotus had made a 2 seater version to allow a lower roofline.
The convertible comes up again. At Goodwood in 2012 I spoke with Coco at length about both the Esprit and Evora 'spider'. He talked about how wonderful the prototypes looked and how the Evora in particular could extend the brand, particularly in sunnier climes of course like CA, FL, the Med.....
But he said that the business case didn't stack up, that Lotus couldn't make the numbers work. But from my own conversations with existing and prospective owners and threads like this there does appear to be a market. Unscientific I know, but I really hope Lotus can make it work.
But he said that the business case didn't stack up, that Lotus couldn't make the numbers work. But from my own conversations with existing and prospective owners and threads like this there does appear to be a market. Unscientific I know, but I really hope Lotus can make it work.
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