Fancy going electric?

[greysquirrel]

I was playing project gotham 4 on the xbox and had to do a race in an electric car against a ferrari.
It was a Tesla roadster - looks very similar to an europa and was bloody quick.
I looked into it and it does 0-60 in under 4 seconds, i then found that it is actually made at the lotus factory at hethel!
I quite fancy one, get me out of congestion charges and all the taxes they are going to throw at us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster

p.s. sorry if this is a repost!

[madmatt1985]

be it cost a few ££

[greysquirrel]

£50k i think - seems to be geared very much towards the american market.

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

Just a bit of a re-post Was a thread on here a couple of weeks ago (and many more before). Tesla are a Californian company, Lotus assemble them (as well as having modified the Elise chassis for it), Tesla supply the powertrain to Lotus.

[greysquirrel]

lol thought it might be a repost - looks really good. Not sure why they only sell to america, why bloody make them in england then lol.
It looks just like an elise inside as well, obviously using the same parts bin.
Good to see that when we eventually get pushed out of petrol cars you can still go fast in a very nice car

[hueandcry71]

greysquirrel said:

I was playing project gotham 4 on the xbox and had to do a race in an electric car against a ferrari.
It was a Tesla roadster - looks very similar to an europa and was bloody quick.
I looked into it and it does 0-60 in under 4 seconds, i then found that it is actually made at the lotus factory at hethel!
I quite fancy one, get me out of congestion charges and all the taxes they are going to throw at us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster

p.s. sorry if this is a repost!

I have just bought my 2 year old a Scalextric (is it really for Matthew my missus asked)as one of his Chrimbo prezzies but they dont do Scalextric Lotus cars.Gutted about that.

[greysquirrel]

unless you want an old lotus 7 or racing car - loads on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SCALEXTRIC-LOTUS-7-CLASSIC-R...

[Boggy]

hueandcry71 said:

greysquirrel said:

I was playing project gotham 4 on the xbox and had to do a race in an electric car against a ferrari.
It was a Tesla roadster - looks very similar to an europa and was bloody quick.
I looked into it and it does 0-60 in under 4 seconds, i then found that it is actually made at the lotus factory at hethel!
I quite fancy one, get me out of congestion charges and all the taxes they are going to throw at us
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster

p.s. sorry if this is a repost!

I have just bought my 2 year old a Scalextric (is it really for Matthew my missus asked)as one of his Chrimbo prezzies but they dont do Scalextric Lotus cars.Gutted about that.

Yes I know whay don't they? My son has wanted Lotus for ages

Boggy

[NathanE]

LivinLaVidaLotus said:

Just a bit of a re-post Was a thread on here a couple of weeks ago (and many more before). Tesla are a Californian company, Lotus assemble them (as well as having modified the Elise chassis for it), Tesla supply the powertrain to Lotus.

My understanding was that it was a wholly Lotus designed and produced car - including the electric motors.

Tesla Motors seem to be just a bunch of silicon valley geeks without any knowledge of building cars at all so they commissioned Lotus to build the car for them.

[kambites]

It's roughly 100k dollars? So about 50k pounds + taxes... if they could market one here for 60k I'd seriously consider buying one.

There aren't actually many cars at around or under 60k which can do 0-60 in under 4 seconds.

[hueandcry71]

greysquirrel said:

unless you want an old lotus 7 or racing car - loads on ebay
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SCALEXTRIC-LOTUS-7-CLASSIC-R...

excellent, thanks. I will purchase whatever i can find.

[LivinLaVidaLotus]

I hope you're not going to trade them for a TT next week though

[hueandcry71]

LivinLaVidaLotus said:

I hope you're not going to trade them for a TT next week though

ive got it sussed now, whenever i want a new car i will buy a scalextric one.So much cheaper.