New Lotus website - our wishes come true!

[NathanE]

http://www.grouplotus.com/

[Stunters]

An excellent improvement. Good news!

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

An improvement, but some glaring usability issues on it. For starters, when you click cars, it brings up a screen asking you to select location, but your eyes are drawn to the list on the left with the scroll bars and you can easily miss (as I did, and someone else I asked to look) the "europe" option all on it's own.

Also it gives the impression that every Elise looks the same. There's no quick way to go back to the list of Elise variants. I know this probably seems petty, but they are obvious things that any competent web developer should get right - then again, this is a Lotus website, they aren't known for getting the obvious things right a lot of the time.

Edited by LivinLaVidaLotus on Sunday 3rd February 21:07

[NathanE]

Took me 2 minutes to find "Europe" as well. Was properly confused for a moment lol

[wooooody]

Web shop is still the same....

[cheekymonkey]

NathanE said:

Took me 2 minutes to find "Europe" as well. Was properly confused for a moment lol

ha ha, glad i wasn't the only one!

[david@mediacopy]

seems broke this morning ....

[Grinnders]

wooooody said:

Web shop is still the same....

Yeahhh... New merchandise..... "This section showcases Lotus' first wave of 2006 merchandise......"

[Boggy]

Love it! congrats Lotus

Boggy

[L100NYY]

Much better, good work guys

[R.P.M]

have they stopped selling the N/A exige as they only have the 's' listed?

cant believe I would have missed the news of them dropping it.



RPM

[subaqua]

I believe so.... the Exige S is now the entry model

[Cino]

R.P.M said:

have they stopped selling the N/A exige as they only have the 's' listed?

cant believe I would have missed the news of them dropping it.



RPM

I think that it wasn't selling that well, which is not that surprising since it's not massively different to a 111R (performance stats are the same) which has the added practicality etc. There doesn't seem to be a way of seeing the colours offered on a car like there was on the old one, although definately better overall. The used car locator is better as well and not stuck in that annoying small window that you couldn't resize

[Zebede29]

Good news on the new site, much improved.....BUT (there's always a but) the colour selector should change the car when you click on a colour - not just a box of the colour as you'd get in a paper brochure.

The point of a decent manufacturer website is to see their product in all it's glory - I can't help thinking a proper configurator would attract more customers.

[bencollins]

blimey the europa is very colour dependent, its really starting to look tasty in that mid blue and red.

[sramdeen]

I don't feel so stupid now for scrolling up and down the list for about 30 seconds looking for 'England, United Kingdom or Britain'