Newly Purchased Evora

[PunyGod]

So after three and a half years of owning an S2 K-series Elise, i decided it was time to cut my losses and move on

In those three years ive had many issues from head gasket failure (twice), a hole in the radiator, brakes seizing, battery dying and even the engine not igniting on startup

I had a few replacements in mind..Jaguar F Type, Ford Mustang 5L V8 or staying within the Lotus community. I will admit i was so close to walking away from Lotus until this beauty showed up on the works intranet one day. So i enquired and within a week the deal was done

2011, 32k miles, Tech pack, Sports Pack, Premium Pack, Titanium Tipped Stage 1 Lotus Exhaust, Upgraded Alpine units and the 2012MY dash

...and what a difference it is

The power, the comfortability and even the smoothness. Its completely own league compared to the Elise and even many standard cars. The sheer power from the 3.5L V6 (Sports mode on or off) makes it great to drive on the country roads and noisy in the town while taking the corners at maximum speed with little effort

Ive put on about a thousand miles in around two weeks and what i can definately say is i will not be getting bored of this anytime soon

[Barrykearley]

Good choice 👍👍

[theelanman]

bloomin gorgeous

congrats

 

[100th_Idiot]

Very nice

[Techyd]

Superb - and is that a tan interior I can see as well? Very smart 🙂

 

[Bruss]

Well done for sticking with Lotus. The Evora continues to be so under evaluated. It is sooo refined compared to the Elise platform, but still has all the feel of the Elise.  Nice looking car. 

[steve930]

Gorgeous looking car, well done 

[Snoopy1969]

Massive congrats  - you will enjoy, from my 7 y experience its a car you should not be bored.......for a l o n g time 😉

red calipers ? are they altered or is it a MY 2012 produced in 2011 (there were some...)?

[mik]

Nice. 

[stephenwhyte]

Looking good Richard - look forward to seeing it at some point👍

[ricvx]

Good work. Is that Dave's old car @PunyGod? Used to see it kicking around the south side of Glasgow. It's a head turner!

[PunyGod]

It is indeed 🔥

[jep]

Carbon grey with cocobolo interior? A mirror of my Evora, though I have different wheels and no black out areas. Stonking cars, total bargains.

You were unlucky with your Elise. I have thrashed a fair few K Series engines and never had head gasket failure. My VHPD is 40,000 miles and still all as it left Hethel. 

Justin

[ricvx]

4 hours ago, jep said:

cocobolo interior?

Or jobby brown as @LazyDonkey calls it 😂

[blindside]

Good choice! Lovely car! 😎

[LazyDonkey]

4 hours ago, ricvx said:

Or jobby brown as @LazyDonkey calls it 😂

def jobby brown

[p4cks]

That's a beaut!

If you can't live with the brown interior (personally I couldn't on mine) it's fairly simple and relatively cheap to change to another colour