EVORA

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I am talking about real driving here on real UK roads. I am not talking about boasting about 550bhp down the boozer and where a manufacturer thinks 20" rims and a set of 1000lb springs = good handling. I am talking about performance you can genuinely use, making hugely enjoyable and rapid progress on crud english roads, indulging in an endless of stream of beautifully filtered feel and above all being in something that looks and feels special and different to just about every other car out there, and yes that includes all those ugly ferraris and 997's and those awful rebadged audis and spammed up cack handed family saloons which wear an M on the back.

Evora. If we are talking about a car to use in the real world then its one of the best i've driven and suffice to say ive driven a few things in my time. If you're even remotely interested, go and try one.

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adycav said:

Are you getting one Rich?

I think i will do at some point but only when they bottom out or at least lose a fair chunk more. I haven lost anything more than about 500 quid or so on a motor for many many years now and have made a profit on many. Not about to change that either so an evora at 40k aint for me sadly. Wish i could justify losing 10k the moment you sign the v5 but i cant.

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BLGuy77 said:

Is this the same Evora with a crap gear change and bits that fall off randomly,oh an a wky Toyota minibus engine that needs a blower to make it half quick?

The gearchange was fine on this one. Like everything you get used to it and no car is perfect. Yes the engine is no gt3 but it feels quick, pulls very nicely and does have a note of sorts. You buy a lotus for the chassis, the feel, the agility, useability, looks and specialness. You cant have everything, you do know that dont you ? You wont get your steering feel in an nsx, you b road suppleness in a GTR, your reliability in an F car, your rarity in a porsche, your tactility in a bmw, your involvement in a gallardo, your continent crossing abaility in a caterham etc... every car is a compromise of sorts. But remember this:

WHAT YOU FEEL CONSTITUTES THE MAJORITY OF THE EXPERIENCE

And the quality of what you feel in an evora has few peers.

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kambites said:

I think they'll drop to at least 25k and probably below 20k, before they start to plateau.

Surely floated by exiges, elises etc.. and my hunch is a lot of people will want them when they drop so they will make for avery strong used market.

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BLGuy77 said:

The Evoras soo good it's nearly phased out already with unsold ones going for nearly 10 grand below list!

wrong ... Its so good that it convinced proton to shelve out £770 million

As a showcase for vva evora was never supposed to have a long shelf life. Funny thing is, in the process of securing their future Lotus have created one of the finest cars theyve ever made.




"dunno watcha mean so its cobblers though innit mate !!!"