How long till the £20k Evora?

[Castrol for a knave]

There was a dark red metallic 10 plate Evora on AT recently.

The rioja colour scheme with oatmeal interior - lovely, and all the packs, seemed a bargain at £28,000. I think it has about 60k on it. I was tempted but couldn't be arsed to drive to Blackheath to go see it.

[Luke.]

Not sure if this ones been mentioned, but seems silly cheap...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202306108...

£21K

[milfordkong]

nunpuncher said:

Looks lovely. Is there a sort of warm/good tint to that silver? I think they really suit the lighter shades and bright colours.

I watched Harry's garage Evora 400 review and it was the a110 he compared it to. I hadn't really thought about them being comparable (v6 v i4 2+2 v 2), but on reflection it makes sense.

I test drove an a110 when they first came out. I thought it was great but it was distinctly "new" feeling. I'm not good enough a driver or writer to explain that better without using all the clichés.

Yeah there's something going on in the silver, it's not your everyday hue and has a lovely sparkle to it, can't quite put my finger on it as yet. My ideal car wouldn't have had the black roof and wheels really, i'd have liked one all in one colour with silver wheels but everything else about it was great and those are cosmetic things that can be changed if I like after all.

Yeah I agree, the A110 feels like a very modern car indeed, which it is and is obviously great if that's what you're looking for, for me the Lotus is just a more visceral thing to drive, as a Lotus should be... It's also plenty comfortable for long trips, the Air Con works great, i've easily upgraded the stereo to Apple Carplay (impossible in pre 22 A110s) and it's relatively economical on a cruise (Though the A110 definitely trumps it considerably for economy, amazing the MPG that car would do).

[DBCooper]

Here it is...a sub 20k Evora. Devoid of pictures... 58k manual 2+0... Cat N.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2023072901...

Edited by DBCooper on Sunday 30th July 15:00

[giveitfish]

OMG! Can it be true?

[BertBert]

giveitfish said:

OMG! Can it be true?

We don't know how scary the cat N is though!

[Shnozz]

Cat N is non-structural isn’t it?

I don’t think repaired non-structurally damaged plastic cars are as much of a scary proposition - many TVRs and Loti have had the odd clam/panel repaired and not sure it’s as frowned about as the less specialist marques.

[BertBert]

Yes the old cat D. Can be very variable as to the amount of damage. I owned a cat D caterham at one point that had been rebuilt on a complete new body. I also had another caterham that I had a new long front end on and not written off. Both were fine, but I preferred the one that had the new body!

[AlexNJ89]

Can see this selling provisionally for less than £20k:
https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/2010-lotus-ev...

I'm a sucker for a yellow Lotus

[Mr Sparkle]

AlexNJ89 said:

Can see this selling provisionally for less than £20k:
https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/2010-lotus-ev...

I'm a sucker for a yellow Lotus

12.5% on top for the buyer fee though. That style of wheel looks good.

[nunpuncher]

I think that'll go towards the top of the estimate due to the colour.

In contrast I don't think that cat N car is cheap enough. £2k less than the non cat N red one and what sounds like a bit of a boring spec. Insurance category cars only really work when they offer a significant saving and it's a popular enough car to still have a big pool of buyers when it's time to sell.

[FWIW]

Those are the forged wheels. Very nice and much better than the standard ones.

[Lotobear]

Reminds me of my old Solar Yellow Evora which I'm kind of regretting selling now - that said I ran it for 2 years and sold it for 2.5k more than I bought it for.

I added a vinyl roof wrap which I think improved the look. Mine had the CR box and no rear seats, it was a Lotus press car. Nice car that I changed for an Elise 111S.

....I'm getting an itch to have another one now

[giveitfish]

Lotobear said:

....I'm getting an itch to have another one now

That does seem to happen with these

[Mr E]

And now I want a yellow one.

[Matty_]

giveitfish said:

That does seem to happen with these

Indeed - miss mine and currently in the market for another (a 400 though, this time). Problem is and - apologies to the owners - not sure I want to drop £50k on a 400 when it looks like we'll be having Emira's starting with a 6 very soon

[nunpuncher]

You can't really ignore the Emira as being the biggest influencing factor on prices.

Greater production capacity, twice as many for sale on the used market at the moment. Is it continuing to sell well after the initial excitement?

You'd need to really really want or need a token rear seat to pay high 60s for a 410 with emiras just over 70.

The Evora will always have rarity on its side and with such few numbers there may always be enough that prefer it.

[AlexNJ89]

nunpuncher said:

You can't really ignore the Emira as being the biggest influencing factor on prices.

Greater production capacity, twice as many for sale on the used market at the moment. Is it continuing to sell well after the initial excitement?

You'd need to really really want or need a token rear seat to pay high 60s for a 410 with emiras just over 70.

The Evora will always have rarity on its side and with such few numbers there may always be enough that prefer it.

Agreed. Also rarity doesn't mean higher prices.

I see so many cars at car shows that are rare but nobody actually wants one.

[nunpuncher]

Matty_ said:

giveitfish said:

That does seem to happen with these

Indeed - miss mine and currently in the market for another (a 400 though, this time). Problem is and - apologies to the owners - not sure I want to drop £50k on a 400 when it looks like we'll be having Emira's starting with a 6 very soon

Well that didn't take long at all
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2023081307...

[BertBert]

nunpuncher said:

Well that didn't take long at all
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/2023081307...

It's not a great surprise though. 1 year old car, private seller, new car has depreciated as expected.