New Evora Model? Evora S Super Sport

[EuropaSman]

Has a UK Lotus franchise dealership let slip the name of the next Evora model to come out of Hethel? The Evora S Super Sport!?!?!

Or maybe it is just a typo (could be embarrassing, but let's hope there will one day be a Super Sport!).

Found tonight on the ClassicCarsForSale.co.uk website this advert which is actually for a Sports Racer.

Edited by EuropaSman on Monday 6th October 21:14

[Undirection]

Typo. Its a Sports Racer

[kbf1981]

They are releasing a new model in the next few weeks / months I heard. Above an Evora S.

[FRO911]

I doubt there'll be any new models or updates coming out of Lotus for some time. They've just made a load of redundancies.

[Frimley111R]

The redundancies are nothing to do with the car production, they are all from the engineering side of Lotus. The next 2 years will see variants of existing cars only. We pretty much know that the Evora R is coming (unknown spec/performance), the interior is being revised with a new design and there may well be a convertible but none of these are expected in the near future.

[FRO911]

Interesting, none of the press reports I've read say this is limited to just the engineering side. If that were the case wouldn't they say so?

[Frimley111R]

Its the press, why let the detail get in the way of a good story. Although some others are affected in production its a small number and overall the redundancies aren't related to production which is going up, it is related to the lack of engineering new business. This is a general trend as manufacturers now do most of this themselves whereas 20 years ago they outsourced.

[kbf1981]

Read the front page PH interview. He says they're launching a faster Evora soon. That's going too be a circa £100k faster evora.

[EuropaSman]

Well, having just read the aforementioned PH article published yesterday, sounds like the Evora Series 2 is on its way (following some Series 1 iterations in between as mentioned by Jean-Marc Gales of course)!

[FRO911]

I've also just read the PH interview, what a relief! This guy sounds like the right man for Lotus.

[Gravel]

kbf1981 said:

Read the front page PH interview. He says they're launching a faster Evora soon. That's going too be a circa £100k faster evora.

Is it really going to be £100K, or is it just going to fix all the niggles that make people compare an Evora to a 911, and think they'd rather spend £70K+ on a Porsche?

If they can get a few more horses out of that Toyota lump, or even switch to a newer one, would that really cost a fortune?

[T4NG0]

Seeing as the Evora hadn't sold in large numbers, I would say all the upgrades are needed to help sell the car at current prices, IMHO.

[FRO911]

In my view they need to concentrate on the design detailing and finishing before they introduce bigger & faster models. They can't bring the Evora price down so they need to bring the quality up to match the price and make it compare better with the competition

[kbf1981]

FRO911 said:

In my view they need to concentrate on the design detailing and finishing before they introduce bigger & faster models. They can't bring the Evora price down so they need to bring the quality up to match the price and make it compare better with the competition

Go sit in a 2014 one.

And that's just what I heard. £100k, new car.

[FRO911]

I own a 2014 one - they're improved but still some way off

[RedTrident]

Bit more information here. Next March with 'changes inside and out, 15% more power and less weight'.

http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/industry/simplif...

[FRO911]

Looks like Lotus may have found the right man this time!

[Frimley111R]

Its good stuff but, more than any simplification or lightness they need a huge leap in quality. Get that right and people won't care much about the rest. Try making a low quality (in terms of build) car and tell people its great because its light and simple.

[bobo]

sounds like the 4c and everyone loves that (ahem apart from s2 owners).... i think you may find styling sells more than build quality especially on low volume lightweight products. the build quality on the 4c in my household is actually better than my v6 exige and by a margin. the doors thunk shut ! but that's never made me want to actually take the 4c out over the v6.

lotus will never be able to compete at build quality but they can dominate on styling. something russell carr completely ignored or wasn't up to. only recently that changed with the v6 exige.

the evora was has been called bland, cumbersome, too soft and awkward from certain angles, its sales volumes outside of existing lotus owners hasnt been particularly good.... 2 new clams styled properly could sort that out.

[naboo]

FRO911 said:

Interesting, none of the press reports I've read say this is limited to just the engineering side. If that were the case wouldn't they say so?

I've not read that either, just that they got rid of 300 people, how many did they have in engineering to begin with?