TLF Lotus Evora Long Term Test

[Bibs]

[21gg]

Well if its taken 2 months to upload 40% when should i come back, October? 

[Bibs]

You're funny, I'll kill you last...

[CocoPops]

6 minutes ago, 21gg said:

Well if its taken 2 months to upload 40% when should i come back, October? 

gLOL

[Bibs]

 

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Reminds me of Fantasy Football with Baddiel and Skinner!

Good fun!

 

[Bibs]

Did you see the bloopers at the end?

 

[JayEmm]

At last! Nice to see my car make a cameo, along with @Gm77 and his stealth bomber

 

Also what's happening with this Lotus magazine then?

[Trevsked]

Well done Bibs & Neal, enjoyed that.

 

Trevor.

[Bravo73]

52 minutes ago, JayEmm said:

Also what's happening with this Lotus magazine then?

"coming soon"!

[Arun_D]

"Big rubber elevens" was the highlight of the video for me.

[Gm77]

4 hours ago, JayEmm said:

At last! Nice to see my car make a cameo, along with @Gm77 and his stealth bomber

You mean @Charlotte 's stealth bomber, ah, I mean, practical family car..! ?

[TBD]

So, are you two auditioning for the new new Topgear? YOu#re certainly better than that shouty twat.

[Gm77]

Well done @Bibs, very funny video! I too look forward to the magazine.

[Neil]

6 hours ago, Bibs said:

Did you see the bloopers at the end?

 

 

My mom has now, she's going to put you over her knee when she see's you next!

[Stuno1]

Great video chap. Love it in orange. 

[Bibs]

3 hours ago, Neil Reed said:

My mom has now, she's going to put you over her knee when she see's you next!

Promises

 

[Ccd]

Bibs:

You said in the video that as an A to B road car it is the best you've ever driven.  What other sports cars have you driven???

[Neil]

Hi, just for some clarification, as you obviously need it  As an organiser of charity runs and other motoring events, we get the chance to drive many toys, some short distances and some for reasonable periods of time. Including quite recently the TTRS Plus, which was a great car for the record, but let down but what seemed to be an awkward seating position, no matter how hard a short guy like me tried, it never felt that comfortable! But my driving history has ranged from Ferrari F40's down to restored classics and everything in between. Bibs and I are quite good at throwing the keys to one another and having mini debates on the cars afterwards, which is what led to this video. It didn't make the final cut but I did comment that the Evora 400 is as close as you can get to an Audi R8 and still have enough money in your pocket to buy an Elise for the weekends!

[Bibs]

9 hours ago, Ccd said:

What other sports cars have you driven???

Plenty mate, as you can imagine in the circles I spend a lot of my time. Both on road and track. 

[blindside]

Great job Bibs.  Very enjoyable video; plenty of humour, not 'up itself' and enough useful information for potential buyers about just how easy the car is to live with.

Although not sure how you will ever get anywhere near 40 miles to the gallon during even mildly energetic driving. Low to mid 20s is more realistic based on 2 months daily driving, including the run-in period. I must be driiving way too fast, in too low a gear without cruise control or 'economy' throttle map. .

[Brendonian]

I enjoyed that. Great work Bibs!

[CocoPops]

I liked the references to owners on here, watched it thinking "yep, yep, yep, I agree, yep, I know who that is, yep"

 

[Ccd]

I was not criticizing you Bibs, just thought that your comment would have more impact if people understood what you have driven.  Neil's comment, above, would have been great in the video.  The R8 is considered by many to be the gold standard in supercars you could actually drive every day.  To say the Evora is as close as you can get to an R8 is high praise indeed, given that the R8 cost twice as much as the Evora.  

Personally, I fault the R8 for lack of storage/luggage space.  I think the car should have enough luggage space for 2 people to go on a weekend trip which would be possible if the shelf behind the seats were deeper.  But I understand that people with the kind of money to afford a R8 probably could care less.

I've considered a used R8 as an alternative to the Evora.  But a R8 V10 with a manual, even used, would cost as much (or more) than a new Evora 400.  At any where close to even money between the two, I'd take the Evora.

[JayEmm]

You probably saw in my own thread that I tried several previous gen R8 V10s. Obviously the new car was out of budget, but there were plenty of the old car for Evora money. I didn't feel like the R8 felt that much quicker than the Evora in a straight line, but I much preferred the steering, noise, looks and practicality of the Evora.

Plus I used to live in West London and got used to seeing R8s fairly frequently, so I don't consider them as particularly "exotic". Also, they share far too much on the interior front with other Audi items to justify their price, in my opinion. A £110k car shouldn't need another £8k of carbon fibre in it to feel special. The BMW M4's interior felt more "bespoke" than the R8's, even though it is almost certainly not. As with yourself luggage space was also a concern and while I appreciate the R8 is a "supercar", it's meant to be the "usable supercar" and it fails miserably on luggage capacity. I can think of a couple of Ferraris that are actually better. And most of the Porsches are too.