RE: Lotus Evora 400 :Driven
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fesuvious said:
Gave mine up for a Challenger Hellcat.
Can't believe I wasted 10months with the Evora400.
I giggle with the Hellcat. Never did that at any point with the Evora.
Roughly translates to, 'the car's strengths are in areas that I don't particularly appreciate so I made a bad choice'Can't believe I wasted 10months with the Evora400.
I giggle with the Hellcat. Never did that at any point with the Evora.
Dick Seaman said:
Roughly translates to, 'the car's strengths are in areas that I don't particularly appreciate so I made a bad choice'
A very valid point but the question is whether those 'strengths' are the fault of the buyer or company? Your general tone seems to imply that you consider it to be the buyer's fault but as he has a 355 which does a very similar job it has to be worth considering that it may be the fault of the company, especially when you consider that they don't sell as many of them as we or Lotus would wish?kambites said:
GroundEffect said:
otolith said:
I remember reading somewhere that the production costs for the 911 and the Cayman/Boxster were similar - there's just an awful lot more margin in a 911 (though of course that ignores development, tooling and marketing costs).
I heard something similar, from a supplier to Porsche. Porsche apparently make $20k+ per 911 which is just ridiculous for this industry.DonkeyApple said:
A very valid point but the question is whether those 'strengths' are the fault of the buyer or company? Your general tone seems to imply that you consider it to be the buyer's fault but as he has a 355 which does a very similar job it has to be worth considering that it may be the fault of the company, especially when you consider that they don't sell as many of them as we or Lotus would wish?
I don't think muscle cars are really a good fit with Lotus brand values?otolith said:
DonkeyApple said:
A very valid point but the question is whether those 'strengths' are the fault of the buyer or company? Your general tone seems to imply that you consider it to be the buyer's fault but as he has a 355 which does a very similar job it has to be worth considering that it may be the fault of the company, especially when you consider that they don't sell as many of them as we or Lotus would wish?
I don't think muscle cars are really a good fit with Lotus brand values?DonkeyApple said:
Dick Seaman said:
Roughly translates to, 'the car's strengths are in areas that I don't particularly appreciate so I made a bad choice'
A very valid point but the question is whether those 'strengths' are the fault of the buyer or company? Your general tone seems to imply that you consider it to be the buyer's fault but as he has a 355 which does a very similar job it has to be worth considering that it may be the fault of the company, especially when you consider that they don't sell as many of them as we or Lotus would wish?Not implying that one is superior to the other, they are both very good but in very different ways. I also assumed that this was the poster's only car, accentuating the strangeness of choice.
Having now seen the poster's current and previous car collection, including the F355, I'll take it back. Although I'd be interested to hear what he didn't like about the Evora.
Probably worth adding that I'm an unreasonably passionate Lotus fan.
DonkeyApple said:
otolith said:
DonkeyApple said:
A very valid point but the question is whether those 'strengths' are the fault of the buyer or company? Your general tone seems to imply that you consider it to be the buyer's fault but as he has a 355 which does a very similar job it has to be worth considering that it may be the fault of the company, especially when you consider that they don't sell as many of them as we or Lotus would wish?
I don't think muscle cars are really a good fit with Lotus brand values?And if you already have a 355 that you didn't buy the Lotus to replace, that seems a pretty unbalanced garage.
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