New Car - Europa

[Fish]

Having been away form Lotus for a little while I am now the proud owner of a graphite Europa. It is the car which John at Thorney Motorsport is developing and I look forward to helping continue the development. I hope you like the pic and I must say the car is a belter. Any thoughts or questions on the car?



I'm just enjoying getting back into the Lotus handling and road manners. That said it handles and goes a hell of a lot better than the standard one.

It is the car Lotus should have made...

Edited by Fish on Monday 30th April 20:01

[Podie]

You've not gone all sensible and replaced the Atom have you..?!?!

[porteouz]

That is absolutely gorgeous! Liking the europa the more i see it!

[Mrs Fish]

Podie said:

You've not gone all sensible and replaced the Atom have you..?!?!

[emenel]

Were you (or your car) at Snetterton for the Elise Trophy? If so, your Europa looked fantastic in the flesh.

[Fish]

It wasn't owned by me at Snet but yes that was the car..

[bogie]

cool - congrats...Thorney has been doing a good job on that one

[TonyHetherington]

As I said in the hoon thread, it does look VERY nice indeed - especially with those black wheels!

So what (roughly) is being done to it? Is it handling and engine based?

love the choice!
Tony

[emenel]

Fish said:

It wasn't owned by me at Snet but yes that was the car..

Well congratulations and you're right, it certainly looks like the car that Lotus should have built in the first place.

[Trixster]

Crikey. I'd forgotten the Europa even existed but that looks the business. More pics please.

[Fish]

Modification wise the setup is as follows;

Nitron adjustable suspension
AP big brake kit
Miltec exhaust (needs finalising)
ECU remap
Team Dynamics wheels now 16" front and 17" rear (normally 17" all round)

The drive is hugely improved and when finalised the stage 2 tune should be around 254bhp

I'll post details as they happen. I can say it does go rather well though.

[wantalotus]

Looks VERY VERY nice m8, I am sure it will be cool, but, no Atom, whats going on? You are not getting all sensible now are you?

[MW666]

look really nice. I cancelled my order for one of these following the crap reviews.
What changes have been done to yours and what have been the benifits over standard???

[kevin ritson]

Not 100% with the exhaust but from that picture the car looks beautifully understated. Even Lotus were keen to take a look when Thorney unveiled it IIRC

[sramdeen]

that pic is one of the nicest I've seen. The Europa isn't that photogenic, but yours looks fantastic. I've only seen a couple in the flesh and they're growing on me.

[andy_s]

Lovely - good to hear a positive on the Europa, albeit a Europa+.

You must have taken a wack of depreciation on the Atom though - there are soooo many about...

[Hollywood Wheels]

Ooh, I like that. The jury was out as far as the Europa was concerned, but that has some very mean but subtle mods......I definately like that....

[S works]

Hats off to Thorney for doing this (I hope Lotus are suitably circumspect) and hats off to you Mr Fish for getting one. Love the wheels and the look, my Elise will soon (by the end of the week I hope) be wearing similar

[boggy]

I've never made any secret along with S work's that I like the Europa, we always said stick a set of decent wheel's on it nice sound and up the power fantastic

Boggy

[Mrs Fish]

It does sound really nice and looks even better in the flesh