Evora Picture & Video Thread

[jep]

1 hour ago, Bruss said:

Must try harder. 🙂

 

 

Fab! I don't think I could ever get my 276 horses to power me to 167mph, though that is still 1mph shy of the official normally aspirated Evora top speed. Must try harder.....

Justin 

[Bruss]

Lol. I have around 400 horses pulling mine along. Lotus did ask me whether the ecu recording of 176 was me though. 

[au-yt]

Waiting on the next installment, but wait for the reliability comment made me smile.. and don't jump to conclusions

 

[Giveitfish]

Not a Lotus, but his experience of using the Mclaren GT for road trip really chimed with my own experience of doing similar in my Evora. 

Squint a bit (and ignore the fact that our cars don't have 600hp, which you can rarely use anyway) and our experience must be 98% of what you get for £200k, and we get a better brake feel and engine sound to boot!

 

Edited December 6, 2019 by Giveitfish

[au-yt]

Seems my 400 likes to eat grasshoppers, their about 1/2" deep at the base of the radiator but only one or two on it. Weird bit didn't see any as I was driving.

[phil flash]

19 hours ago, Giveitfish said:

Not a Lotus, but his experience of using the Mclaren GT for road trip really chimed with my own experience of doing similar in my Evora. 

Squint a bit (and ignore the fact that our cars don't have 600hp, which you can rarely use anyway) and our experience must be 98% of what you get for £200k, and we get a better brake feel and engine sound to boot!

 

 

at !0:30 in the vid he's talking about how good the steering is and says "it has the Lotus feel".  McLaren will be pleased!  He tested an Evora GT with a big smile on his face...

I use my Launch Edition for Calais to Agde, or vice versa,  and cross the Millau Viaduct so I found his journey interesting - I wouldn't go that way to get to NIce though.  My trip is 666 miles so I do it in a single hit with just fuel stops, just over 9 hours, but Péage Tolls total 73€.  I've tried the scenic off motorway roads but don't make decent progress - and since the 80kmph (50mph) speed limit on the open road there are too many 'boys in blue' with cameras.

 

[Bruss]

Phil, the national limit is still 90 kph (56) unless otherwise signed as 80.

 

[ewand]

That's interesting - the news just said that from 1 July 2018, 400,000km of roads would reduce to 80kph - are you saying that it only applies if it explicitly says 80 is the limit?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_France

[Bruss]

Yep. It was implemented nationwide but gillets jaunes protests resulted in a typical French compromise. The national limit stays the same at 90, but if local authorities want to apply the 80 kph they can.

There's a long history and culture of democracy working from the local level upwards. Local communities go there own way and resent any interference from outside, whether thats regional or national.  The 90 kph just came at the wrong time as Macron seeks to impose what the regions see as Parisien rules on the rest of the country.

 

 

 

[C8RKH]

Working! Hah, long history of striking more like.... 😂🤣

[au-yt]

I took this picture at a winery markets near Dubbo in NSW 5 hours west of Sydney, not your typical lotus picture or habitat especially seeing the northern hemisphere is locked in snow, Australia inland is in drought from about 30 latitude north. Its locked in a winter weather pattern and its Summer and drought and the blue is smoke haze from the fires on the coast north of Sydney

 

[ByJoveByJingle]

At home in Arizona on a beautiful December evening. 
 

[AndyH]

Looks amazing!! What a fantastic setting!

[The Pits]

 

[Bibs]

Was looking through some old pics and spotted this one!

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Is that Jake Humphrey the Norwich City fan auto-cueing with the Luxuriant One?

[Bibs]

It certainly is. I had a good chat with him there, lovely chap and local to Lotus too. 

[Bravo73]

Very local. Our kids used to go to the same playgroups. 
 

(I thought that there is another vid where Jake is ‘scared sensible’ by Mr Donnelly. But I can’t find it).

[Cayman]

The Epsom Green Evora in the background behind the TV screens in the IAA Frankfurt photo now has black 19/20 inch design wheels and lives in Sweden  

[au-yt]

 

[Bibs]

12 hours ago, Cayman said:

The Epsom Green Evora in the background behind the TV screens in the IAA Frankfurt photo now has black 19/20 inch design wheels and lives in Sweden  

Yours? That's a lovely colour, almost as nice as Motorsport Green! Welcome to TLF, we need to talk about your username

[Ratman]

still surprised about the fact that there are so few green Lotus.

MSG is awesome, Epsom Green very nice.

the Evora is good in almost all the colors, but red interiors/ green exterior with yellow accents is the best combo, but it is like an unicorn

[Arregueti]

@Cayman 

Interesting. That looks pretty much like the paint in my car, but mine is supposed to be British Racing Green, according to the certificate. I guess they changed the names.

I am also curious about the original registration plate of that car. Mine was also an early MY12 and a Lotus press car at the time, AU 61 CEX.

Do you mind sharing yours?

[Cayman]

Sure, here it is. 

The color code is C67 which is B67 (Epsom Green) only done in the Dupont Chroma system. (Epsom is a Land Rover color btw.)

I agree your car looks rather similar but it depends a lot on the lighting. My car is featured in this video (2:20 - 3:50) 

Your color code should be on the plaque under the mat on the vertical part below the rear seat (or luggage shelf for a 2+0) behind the passenger seat. It's a bit of a pain to remove the mat.

It's all a bit confusing but British Racing Green is code B04 which is a solid paint and certainly not the color you have. 

Racing Green is B29 as solid and Racing Green metallic is B86. Motorsport Green is a newer color with just a hint of gold in it.

I haven't ordered a certificate from Lotus yet but I think it will contain the original reg plate also. My car is serial number 00001 2012 and it was built and used by Lotus as a show car for quite some time and then sold to Germany. I have met the two previous owners (both German gentlemen) and I don't think there were any others. 

Hope that helps! 

[CaptainSlow]

I custom built a model for Cayman last Autumn. Using a Bburago model in 1:24 as a basis. The LOTUS letters on the rear clam and the Evora badge are very small in 1:24...