Considering an Evora S

[Brinyan]

I was here a few months back after driving an Exige & Evora, considering a purchase. Since then, the sun came out (briefly) & a Caterham made sense instead. However, I’ve now sold a 996 Turbo that I had & have gone full circle landing back looking at Evora’s. I drove a n/a car last week & loved it. I don’t want to spend 400 onwards money, so thinking an S makes sense, as would like a bit more go than the n/a car & I like the look of the older cars. Will Blackham has a grey car coming in soon that I hope to see (have been in touch with him). I know to check the trim, gear change etc. The n/a car I saw was peppered with stone chips everywhere - is this to be expected? Any advice welcome. Thanks

[Brinyan]

Also, is road tax really £600 per year for 2011 Evora S manual? I looked online & found 2 different figures!

[Brinyan]

Thanks for responding. Good to hear such positive things from owners - apart from road tax charges, but that’s just unfortunate as the age of the cars fall within the bracket where it’s expensive. My 996 Turbo pumped out a lot more high emissions than an Evora, but being 2002 was £345 a year. With any of these cars, there’s always the risk of a big bill coming along, but won’t be worse than Porsche - I had new spoiler lift rams fitted early this year - £2.5k!

[Brinyan]

ParanoidAndroid said:

Justin S said:

We have been contemplating an Evora S and selling my E86 BMW. We went to a dealer a month or so ago to look at a car and he couldnt find the keys and believed the mechanic had locked them in his tool chest and gone home. Wasted a 200 mile journey, but said 'do come back !' . Their other branch was taking some cars on a track day at Silverstone, which made me not one which is probably been buzzed by customers than owners. Was going to Silverstone Lotus the other day and realised the superbikes were on. Emailed another dealer, who said he was 'doing viewings in the week and taking bookings' , so just thought it would end up as a bidding war and really can't be bothered with this.
We just wanted to see if the wife can drive/ sit in it, as she is vertically challenged and struggles in the beemer, but we havent made any sensible progress to seeing one for size. We did sit in the show car when they were launched, but we cant remember about sizing and guess she may have shrunk with age.
Anyone near Newbury have a car we could look at for fitting ?

I’m not too far from Newbury, welcome to come and see mine. Not sure if you’ve spoken to Jamie at Bell and Colvill? He was great when I bought mine, spent ages with me, gave me the keys and let me try it on my own. Really great service.

Edited by ParanoidAndroid on Saturday 25th September 14:02

As always seems to be said, Jamie at B&C is a great guy & very helpful. When I went there, I took an Exige & Evora out on my own, with no pressure on time or pressure to buy. I found access in & out of the Evora (both older & newer versions) very easy & though not a large car inside, certainly had plenty of headroom, legroom & space between the seats, as opposed to rubbing shoulders in Elise/Exige.