Evora Picture & Video Thread

[HowardRoark]

No worries for the gents who do not care for the accents, everyone has their own taste and they are entitled to it.  😀 I love the red accents my GT has now and it makes me SMILE every time I walk into my garage.  I love it more than any Evora I have seen (except maybe a JPS version with gold rims, those are the business.).  Cheers!  😀👍

[C8RKH]

@HowardRoark get some red on the diffuser at the back to balance it out! 👍

You have the right attitude and as long as it makes you happy, who cares 😜

[21gg]

Please leave the rear diffuser as it is....... Just to irritate C8RKH 😂🤣

[Bibs]

 

[LoW8]

That’s cool. Ben Collins was the Stig wasn’t he? 🤫 

[tim_marra]

Yep.

[Mike Kimberley]

Thank you for the memory Bibs. The launch of "The Eagle"- first all new car for 13 years at the time. So many great Evora iterations and developments from a standing start in 2008. A fantastic experienced team who built in ACBC's Lotus DNA.

Looking forward to a great Lotus future now, kick-started with the Evija.

[jep]

MJK and his team nailed Evora - the arrow hit the bullseye. 

It is a travesty that Evora did not fly (sales-wise) like an Eagle. 

Thankyou Mike for Evora. 

Justin 

 

[C8RKH]

If only they had marketed it!  Bloody superb car. Beautiful to look at. Nice proportions. Comfortable. Quick. Connected.  A true achievement and I've been proud to own and run two that have been reliable, fun, inspiring and awesome.  Thanks @Mike Kimberleyfor the memories I've made with your creation and for the ones to come. You've been responsible for thousands of smiles on my face and countless giggles of delight.  Cheers

[Mike Kimberley]

I  know that the whole Lotus Eagle team agreed with you C8RKH our great friend RGB was spitting bullets. Unfortunately, a new CEO after I retired actually talked down the car, even publicly on TV!  That is not the first time that such has happened in the auto industry sadly. However, the Evora has shown its true pedigree since by its remarkable advance through new and higher performance variants with great success-apart from the lack of effective marketing until the Geely acquisition.

[C8RKH]

34 minutes ago, Mike Kimberley said:

Unfortunately, a new CEO after I retired actually talked down the car, even publicly on TV!

Yes, the disease that is "not invented here" is a strong in some CEO's as it is elsewhere. My experience is it is usually CEO's who were CFO's and typed their title letters wrong in the computer. Strong Evora sales from 2010 to date would have set Lotus on a much faster recovery path and would have earned hundreds, if not thousands of new "drivers" to the brand but as usual ego gets in the way of business success.  So glad you persevered Mike and your success with the team will be well remember in Lotus history.

[jep]

+2 configuration is so clever. Enables using the Evora far more often yet the profile and shape is untroubled by what is a very tough design challenge. 

I bet Russell Carr and the team were anxious when MJK (I assume) insisted on +2 layout. 

I think they created the prettiest +2 mid-engined car in the history of automobiles.

Justin 

 

[62dave]

It gets on my nerves when the rear seating gets criticised - my 18 months year old slots in back there perfectly. You can fit a large suitcase too. Genuinely a practical car compared to a lot of the competition.

Agreed on marketing too - I didn’t know it existed until I saw a couple parked up at a car show 5 or 6 years ago and decided I had to have one.

[Jason is Chasing]

Lotus created something beyond brilliant, and I think that may simply just be in the DNA itself, the conversation here itself is enlightening, and saddening simultaneously.  I do hope they indeed show the world, what I believe is truth.  

Edited November 29, 2020 by Jason is Chasing

[Mike Kimberley]

1 hour ago, jep said:

+2 configuration is so clever. Enables using the Evora far more often yet the profile and shape is untroubled by what is a very tough design challenge. 

I bet Russell Carr and the team were anxious when MJK (I assume) insisted on +2 layout. 

I think they created the prettiest +2 mid-engined car in the history of automobiles.

Justin 

 

Yes jep. Many wanted a pure two seater but I was planning that as the new Esprit to follow the Evora. (Together with RGB I had already negotiated the V10 engine for N/S mid engined installation). Many tried to change my mind but we had the entry level Elise and a much more powerful Exige on the way and needed a more user friendly but high performance up-market sports car " stepping stone" to the Esprit to come. Russel and his team did a fabulous job.

1 hour ago, 62dave said:

It gets on my nerves when the rear seating gets criticised - my 18 months year old slots in back there perfectly. You can fit a large suitcase too. Genuinely a practical car compared to a lot of the competition.

Agreed on marketing too - I didn’t know it existed until I saw a couple parked up at a car show 5 or 6 years ago and decided I had to have one.

Glad that you enjoy it 62dave. It is a Colin Chapman DNA Lotus from an experienced team trained by Colin.

[Bravo73]

5 minutes ago, Mike Kimberley said:

the new Esprit to follow the Evora. (Together with RGB I had already negotiated the V10 engine for N/S mid engined installation).

Woah. I think that statement is going to cause explosions and tears in equal measures. Oh, if only it had happened... 😢

[chipp]

Always nice to hear your thoughts and comments on developements. Can you comment on the v10 that was tested.

 

chipp

[jep]

Thanks so much @Mike Kimberley. Just so good to hear these nuggets of truth and wisdom.

You must do a book - and can you encourage Brian Angus to do one too! 

Perhaps not for this thread but I would be intrigued to hear your thoughts on the McLaren road car program and how that may have impacted V10 Esprit. 

Justin 

 

[PaulCP]

3 hours ago, C8RKH said:

it is usually CEO's who were CFO's and typed their title letters wrong in the computer.

Hey! 🥊🥊 

[C8RKH]

CFO's who become CEO's have a track record of killing companies. They're good with numbers, but shite with people and spend so much time focused on counting beans that they lose sight of the bigger picture. Obviously a generalisation but also based on personal experience.

[Neal H]

I don’t think said CEO came from a financial background. If he had, Lotus would probably be in much better shape pre Geely.

[Bibs]

3 minutes ago, Neal H said:

I don’t think said CEO came from a financial background.

He certainly knew how to spend! 

[Mike Kimberley]

1 hour ago, Bravo73 said:

Woah. I think that statement is going to cause explosions and tears in equal measures. Oh, if only it had happened... 😢

That is life in the fast moving auto industry Bravo73 as you know. There is another ex-Lotus very professional top engineering gentlemen still very active who knows the story of how it was killed off.

[Bravo73]

1 hour ago, jep said:

Thanks so much @Mike Kimberley. Just so good to hear these nuggets of truth and wisdom.

You must do a book

https://www.thelotusforums.com/forums/topic/112355-looking-for-a-ghost-writer-for-mjk/

[C8RKH]

36 minutes ago, Neal H said:

I don’t think said CEO came from a financial background. If he had, Lotus would probably be in much better shape pre Geely.

Or as I said before, if he HAD, there would now be no Lotus!   If we're talking about DB, then wasn't he a marketeer originally?  They're really good at spending cash. Claiming the plaudits for other peoples work. But generally there is no substance.    Come to think of it, was JMG not a Marketeer too originally?  Jeeze, it really is a surprise there is anything left!    Shame the current CEO was not a marketeer as then we could have a book and a film - Lotus and the 3 Marketeers. All for one, and one for me.