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Hello all! As a serial lurker on this forum while I had my Elise I have now sold that and just secured an evora this week. Alpine white 2+2 tech and sport from silverlink. The car is currently at the Lotus Factory where all things being well I am going on Friday to collect and have a factory tour! Needless to say I cant wait and will try and post some photos once its safe at home, I wonder if i can take pictures at the factory.... probably not!
LogicSnap said:
Hello all! As a serial lurker on this forum while I had my Elise I have now sold that and just secured an evora this week. Alpine white 2+2 tech and sport from silverlink. The car is currently at the Lotus Factory where all things being well I am going on Friday to collect and have a factory tour! Needless to say I cant wait and will try and post some photos once its safe at home, I wonder if i can take pictures at the factory.... probably not!
Is that a new car or used? Just wondered as you say it's at the factory...Looking forward to the pics
worldwidewebs said:
Is that a new car or used? Just wondered as you say it's at the factory...
Looking forward to the pics
Its second hand. Apparently Lotus run about 40-50 Evoras for senior management etc, after ~2 years these are given back to the factory, and then sold to Garages. I am based in South West London, the garage who bought it are based in Newcastle, but they hadnt taken delivery of the car yet. Looking forward to the pics
I managed to negotiate getting it from Hethel as its a lot closer than Newcastle and it didnt make much sense to send the car up there only to bring it back down. The garage then negotaited a factory tour and that swung it for me!
Apparently they also give it a 100% thorough service before its released to the garage, so a nice bit of added piece of mind. Will def try and get some snaps!
Which one did you go for? Did the factory tour at the weekend as part of a Driving Academy day and they had a bunch of ex press and management cars parked up ready to go off to the dealers.
Factory tour is well worth doing, sure it'll be even better going round while they're actually working on the line.
Factory tour is well worth doing, sure it'll be even better going round while they're actually working on the line.
Morning all,
What a day yesterday! First thoughts on my car? Love it, ride it amazing, bumps that would have me thiking my Elise had cracked in half were just despatched with ease, lovely power delivery too (in the right gear). On that point, 1st and reverse are an absolute sl@g to engage, does this get better or do I need to mention something? Also the Alpine is behaving itself at the moment, i was v worried after all I had read, fingers x'd...!
Anyway, trip to the factory was great, amazing to see the process despite having visited various car factories over the years! While I was there there was very little work going on, they are on a go-slow while the transfer of ownership gets ratified by the Malaysian gvmnt, due to re-start next week.
Saw an Evora GTE in the flesh - what a car, my first comment was it looks bigger somehow, and the Lotus man confirmed its 8 inches wider than a standard evora. All the first cars are destined for China as its much harder to homologate cars for the EU market apparently. No update on when the GTE will be on sale here. Also saw the new Exige S - lovely looking car, lovely wheels. All the ones we saw were left hand drive - indeed most of all the cars we saw on the production line were lefties. For those that have wondered about 1000 evora's a year are going to the US.
We were not supposed to take pics but the Lotus man let me grab some quick snaps of the GTE and Exige so will try and post those now...
What a day yesterday! First thoughts on my car? Love it, ride it amazing, bumps that would have me thiking my Elise had cracked in half were just despatched with ease, lovely power delivery too (in the right gear). On that point, 1st and reverse are an absolute sl@g to engage, does this get better or do I need to mention something? Also the Alpine is behaving itself at the moment, i was v worried after all I had read, fingers x'd...!
Anyway, trip to the factory was great, amazing to see the process despite having visited various car factories over the years! While I was there there was very little work going on, they are on a go-slow while the transfer of ownership gets ratified by the Malaysian gvmnt, due to re-start next week.
Saw an Evora GTE in the flesh - what a car, my first comment was it looks bigger somehow, and the Lotus man confirmed its 8 inches wider than a standard evora. All the first cars are destined for China as its much harder to homologate cars for the EU market apparently. No update on when the GTE will be on sale here. Also saw the new Exige S - lovely looking car, lovely wheels. All the ones we saw were left hand drive - indeed most of all the cars we saw on the production line were lefties. For those that have wondered about 1000 evora's a year are going to the US.
We were not supposed to take pics but the Lotus man let me grab some quick snaps of the GTE and Exige so will try and post those now...
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[quote=LogicSnap]Morning all,
. On that point, 1st and reverse are an absolute sl@g to engage, does this get better or do I need to mention something? Also the Alpine is behaving itself at the moment, i was v worried after all I had read, fingers x'd...!
Logicsnap, on my car first is no problem reverse is slightly harder to engage, I have the standard Alpine unit in mine not the uprated one (still trying to work the controls out), but what I would say is that there were lots of negative comments on PH regarding the unit in the Europa and whilst it was no iPod understanding how it worked is the first step and the Navigation some said was useless was actually very good once you understood how to program the location in, it never let me down once.
Very nice car you have, enjoy the miles you have in it :-)
. On that point, 1st and reverse are an absolute sl@g to engage, does this get better or do I need to mention something? Also the Alpine is behaving itself at the moment, i was v worried after all I had read, fingers x'd...!
Logicsnap, on my car first is no problem reverse is slightly harder to engage, I have the standard Alpine unit in mine not the uprated one (still trying to work the controls out), but what I would say is that there were lots of negative comments on PH regarding the unit in the Europa and whilst it was no iPod understanding how it worked is the first step and the Navigation some said was useless was actually very good once you understood how to program the location in, it never let me down once.
Very nice car you have, enjoy the miles you have in it :-)
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