Evora to Vantage

[Del Lardo]

My 2010 Evora NA was sold yesterday after 2 years and 8000 very fun miles to be replaced by a 2008 Vantage 4.7 manual. I was luckily enough to be able to buy it from a friend who has owned it for the last 7 years and looked after it fastidiously before upgrading to a Vantage V12 last summer. Took me a while to convince him that two Vantages to a bit greedy but very glad that I did.

Onxy Black exterior with Obsidian Black interior & Piano Black Veneer.
An alarming list of things that were options.....
Premium Audio System
Auto dimming rear view mirror
Blue tooth phone prep
Cruise control
First aid kit (still sealed)
Front parking sensors
Memory seats and mirrors
Powerfold exterior mirrors
Sat Nav
Sports pack
Tracker
Xenon (HID) headlamps

Exhaust bypass remote already fitted and sounding glorious

And the best bit, a pretty much mint 4.7 for the price of a 4.3 as he wanted it to go to a good home and was happy to get more than offered at Part-ex but not have to deal with "buyers"


I've borrowed the car before and driven about 500 miles in it, so not so first impressions.
Ride quality nowhere near as good as Evora
Seats lack lateral support in cornering and no where near as comfortable as Evora over distance
The V8 noise is though to be fair my modified Evora sounded amazing too. Still I've never owned a V8 and it's a itch that I am very pleased that I can scratch.
Interior feels a far higher quality place to be but still rattles over bumpy roads so I feel at home
Handling doesn't feel as composed as the Evora, that's a car that you can grab and throw around, the extra weight makes itself felt, no doubt great fun once you get used to it but not as confidence inspiring

The view out the bonnet and the way it makes you feel is pure theatre and I am very pleased that I have made the change.

[bogie]

More familar names from Lotus world - congrats on the new car

[johnwilliams77]

Congrats on the vantage. They look lovely but the weight, suspension etc means it's not special enough to tempt me out of a lotus. You will be back soon.

[justin220]

Exactly the same move I made, agree on your thoughts. Congrats!

[RobDown]

Congrats! Looks the business

[gareth h]

An Evora takes some beating, doesn't it!

[LPH]

Congrats and welcome (from another ex-Lotus owner). Well I say ex, I still have it for a couple of weeks. I made the mistake of driving it last weekend. Having just about the same power as the Aston and weighing exactly half meant the Aston felt painfully slow afterwards......

Car looks great btw. Looks like you got a great deal.

Edited by LPH on Saturday 2nd March 18:42