Monday 16th October 2006

ReVerie pumps up your Lotus

Elise/Exige get new wheelarch and diffuser

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ReVerie's wheel-arch and diffuser kit

Lotus specialist ReVerie is producing new wheel-arch parts for the Exige and Elise, according to early information obtained by PistonHeads.

New wheel arches will be ready for commercial release "very soon", we hear, while the rear arches are as supplied by ReVerie in 2006 as a sponsor to Lotus Cadena GT3 team.

The bolt-on wheel arch kit and fits S2 Exiges and Elises, and allows much wider rims or 40mm wider bolt-on wheel spacers with stock rims, or the use of lengthened wishbones.

A rear wing and front spoiler are also under development. More subtle rear diffuser options, such as Essex-based ReVerie's standard three-element 111R/111S type are available, rather than this full race option, said ReVerie's Simon Farren.

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[Dr_Gonzo]

Hideous!

[emenel]

Oh dear.

[piooly]

Not sure about that but probably lookks nuts in the flesh....

[TJW]

Looks cack!!! It doesn't look straight(rear diffuser) the arches look like they'd crumble away. lol.

[jonescr]

April fools or Halloween?

[PASTHIM]

Stop it all of you! It took hours of hard work with carboard, an old milk bottle and 300 meters of sticky-backed plastic to produce that.

[GTRene]

I think it could look fine, now there's only this picture...I think it looks OK its more raw/racy and stay planted on the road even at very high speeds...maybe even at 200mph ofcorse fitted with a high power engine, its a bit wider so at high speeds its more difficult to cut through the air remembering my old Peugeot 205 GTI 160hp Gutman with wide "Turbo body"...it was even slower at topspeed then the standard 130hp only to 60 it was faster...so I think it will reduce topspeed when you don't change the engine.
GTRene

[GTRene]

This Japaneze widened S2 Exige looks very good me thinks...




and this one is my favorit picture, it looks so sweet...also a bit S1 looks...me like

GTRene

[dank]

Max power rubbish, why would anyone want to ruin their Lotus!!!!????

[Bada Bing!]

What a complete and utter mess! I love the arrogance of these muppets who think they can improve on Lotus' own designers and the amount of work that went into creating its gorgeous lines.

Terrible. Just terrible. No surprises as to where they're based.

Edited by Bada Bing! on Monday 16th October 11:51

[Rev-erend]

Superb - only trouble with the Carlos fandango wheel arches with be



Road width restrictions..

[RTH]

All far too extreme.

Lotus ' own Elise GT1 race car probably 6 or more years ago now looked alogether more balanced.

[summit7]

Pimp my ride dude I've gotta look cool down on the Max Power strip. Horrid, horrid, horrid.

[HUGE]

Drive it in reverse and suck the leaves off the roads in the autumn....thats the only way that diffuser would be useful....completely OTT and utterly horrible...

[andy_s]

Just need the tin-can exhaust, 'NO FEAR' sticker, supa bass bins and some tinted glass and it'll look 'sorted john innit?'

See the black one that GTrene posted? that's actually quite good - not sure how it affects the handling etc (and if it makes things better then why didn't Lotus do it in the first place?) but from an aesthetic pov I think it works - like an AC Cobra, the bulges have been steroided and it looks squat and purposeful still. But that purple thang? C'mon, I mean, why would you want to....?

[GTRene]

well, reverie says this...and thats why

ReVerie's rear wheel arches fitted to Barrie Whight/Gavin Kershaw's Lotus Sport Cadena Exige GT3 car during their recent Snetterton meeting. The wheel arches have been widened to allow Lotus Sport Cadena to package 9.5” wide rims, giving more rear end grip, thus allowing the cars to achieve higher lateral grip.

So they can do faster laptimes...so its more race oriented...
GTRene

[mafioso]

Now I see this word "stock" has been used again! The proper term is "standard". That is the word that should be used when describing factory fitted items! ugh! This proves that the writer must be a mod-man! Anyway, terrible bloody add ons!

[chrisjl]

Article said:

...40mm wider bolt-on wheel spacers with stock rims...

That's not the way to do it - the kingpin axis on an Elise isn't great to start with, and jacking the rim outwards by 40mm is only going to make it worse.

[Horse_Apple]

I'm assuming they simply misread the design criteria.

Should have been: Create body kit for old Ford Puma to make it look like a Lotus, for sale to those living within sight on the sea.

[HeavySoul]

I like it - well the arch kit anyway. That diffuser looks like it's made from old cornflake packets though.