RE: Lotus Evora GT430 Sport

[tankplanker]

isaldiri said:

I never understand this sort of comment. It's not at all a matter of whether the chassis is 'too good' but how much feedback and 'feel' for lack of a better word that the driver gets from the car at normal semi legal road speeds. The gt4 is imo very detached and clinical in this respect compared to any of the 7gt3s. It's not bad compared to the rest of the current 9X1 Porsche range but really nowhere compared to a car with what I'd consider decent driving feel which I'd consider the exige v6 definitely to have (haven't driven an evora much so can't comment on that).

The Exige 350 I drove didn't have power steering and had bags of feedback as you'd expect. The Evora 400 I drove back to back with the Exige had remote hydraulic power steering (not sure how that differs from the standard hydraulic power steering in the older Evoras, they changed it from the 400 onwards) and lacked most of the steering feel of the Exige as a result. The Evora 400 is far from a numb steer but it is nowhere near as informative as the Exige.

[anonymous-user]

Exige V6 is an absolute Lotus track-oriented rocketship whereas Evora is principally a Lotus road car. Very different creatures.

[tankplanker]

The 400 I agree, but the 410 and the aero version of the GT430 I'd disagree as being more track focused. Besides, that wasn't my point, rather that using the Exige as a benchmark for the Evora for steering feedback is flawed as one has power steering and the other does not.