Discussion
If that is a lotus test car (the first one) then the spoiler looks like a production type item. It also looked like it had elise wheels and maybe a slightly wider track. Maybe that is the rear of a europa r with more poke (maybe the 240bhp engine from the astra vxr???) with elise wheels on to get tire sizes and handling/suspension the same as the elise. That would be cool I think because I believe one of thorneys upgrades is to use the (bigger/better??) turbo from the astra vxr???
hahithestevieboy said:
If that is a lotus test car (the first one) then the spoiler looks like a production type item. It also looked like it had elise wheels and maybe a slightly wider track. Maybe that is the rear of a europa r with more poke (maybe the 240bhp engine from the astra vxr???) with elise wheels on to get tire sizes and handling/suspension the same as the elise. That would be cool I think because I believe one of thorneys upgrades is to use the (bigger/better??) turbo from the astra vxr???
Won't be standard Elise wheels because Elises / Exiges use 4 bolt hubs whereas the Europa uses the same hubs as the VXT, which has Vauxhall 5 bolt hubs.All the VX220 enthusiasts who want to improve handling swap their wheels for 17/16 combo like the Elise / Exige anyway so we can use the same tyres as you lot... but we need custom wheels to do this, or swap the hubs for Lotus hubs. Most just buy the few wheels (Team Dynamics Race 1.2 are the usual) you can get in the right size / offset and use Yoko A048R or Toyo R888s.
If the picture of that car has 16" fronts then they've swapped the hubs. The last Europa I looked at up close in a Lotus dealership definitely had most of the bits from the VXT, unless they've changed things.
And yes, the new Astra VXR turbo is a straight replacement and much better. Mine's getting one eventually....
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