Evora GTE Registry

[ramjet]

These cars are rather 'whooshey' aren't they? (Is that a word?)

[TBD]

#19 found: http://www.auto-online.ch/Auto/LOTUS-EVORA-GTE-2588278/Uebersicht.html

01 CH                                          Blue                  Cognac             LHD   IPS      2+2

02 UK      21gg_                         Blue                  Cognac              RHD   IPS      2+2       21GG

03 UK      domguy                      Black & Gold     Black                 RHD   IPS      2+0        AU64 CJV

04 UK      LotusLeftLotusRight Starlight Black   Sports Racer        LHD   MAN     2+2        X4GTE

05 HK      Sold                             Solar Yellow      Sports Racer     RHD   IPS      2+0

06 HK      Sold                             Starlight             Sports Racer     RHD   MAN    2+0

07 CH      Sold                            Sport Yellow      Sports Racer      LHD   MAN     2+0

08 UK      bingoking                    Black & Gold     Venom                RHD   MAN    2+0       FII0TUS

09 UK       adfer                           Carbon              Carbon              LHD   IPS       2+0      L7VGT

10 UK      AVAILABLE                  Black                Sports Racer     RHD   IPS      2+2       AU61CEV

11 DE      TBD                             Aspen White      Sports Racer     LHD   MAN     2+0       HH-TD462

12 HK      Sold                             Aspen White      Sports Racer     RHD   IPS       2+0

13 UK      JeffK                            Military Grey     Black/Alcantara  RHD  IPS       2+0      J 1000

14 UK     Trevsked                     Metallic White   Sports Racer        LHD   IPS        2+0      V60 GTE

15 UK     TheKevlarKid             Arctic Silver        Black/Alcantara  LHD   MAN     2+0       NO15GTE

16 UK      sizona                         Arctic Silver       Sports Racer      LHD    IPS            2+0       LOT3S

17 UK       adfer                          Aspen White      Sports Racer      LHD    IPS       2+0

18 AE       Sold                             Gold/Red           Sports Racer     LHD   IPS      2+0

19 CH      For Sale                       Black                 Sports Racer     LHD   MAN      2+0      Classica Motors S.A.

20 UK     Ishy                         Motorsport Green    Black/Alcantara  LHD   IPS      2+0        NR20GT

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Strong money being asked for #19 then. That CHF 148985 price equates to GBP 98368 or EUR 137284. Maybe they have higher tax than us?

[adfer]

I think the Swiss vat rate is lower than ours, and I think you would have to pay UK vat if you wanted to import that car from Switzerland.

[bingoking]

Swiss TVA (VAT) is 8%. Alan is correct, you would have to pay 20% VAT if you import the car to UK and I believe import duty but not sure what the import duty is.

[TBD]

As a GTE owner I do like the direction those prices are going!

[C8RKH]

Just found these pictures and have fallen in Love with the car. Is this GTE owned by anyone on here? The colour is apparently Chrome Red and it is just OMG gorgeous to my eyes....

 

[Ishy]

Yes it looks great in the photo's though didn't look quite so great last time I saw it.......

It was still a similar colour at the bottom but going through various shades through orange as you looked higher to almost chrome at the top of the rear quarters.

Somewhat faded I'm afraid, it wasn't one of the 20 to be re-built.

[Bibs]

That's the Swizzy Evora and I believe it's now in Thailand. 

http://www.thelotusforums.com/latest-news/lotus-cars-news/swizz-beats-evora-gte-revealed-in-nyc/

[C8RKH]

Ah, OK, thanks Chaps. It's shame. She looked wonderful, though I guess like all film stars with age the colour, looks and glamour all fade. Still, the archive pictures paint a real purddy picture. An Evora 400 with black pack in that colour would look yummy too.

[adfer]

Looks OK in the background in this photo.   The spoiler is missing I think.

[Bravo73]

1 hour ago, adfer said:

Looks OK in the background in this photo.   The spoiler is missing I think.

Was that photo taken relatively recently (ie when you bought the carbon car)?

I remember the red car @ Motorports but I don't think that it was the chrome red car. 

[adfer]

Yes, the photo was taken in June I think.

I was told that the red car was the Beatz car and was going to be scrapped.

[Bravo73]

Ah, fair enough. In which case, it definitely wasn't 'chrome' anymore. 

[TheKevlarKid]

The red one in Alan's pic isn't the swizz beatz car, that is the red Beirut car which was in the airport raffle draw.

As ishy say's it hadn't weathered well at all, it had really bad sun bleaching. Last time I saw it it looked like someone had got the cheapest shiny Christmas paper and wrapped it in it. It looked terrible and I can t imagine it looked that good to start with tbh, even when it was all one uniform shade.

Not sure where the swizz car is now, it hadnt been scrapped off along with the others and may have been sold as track use only. The red Beirut car is still in existence also, again track use only.

 

Edited November 13, 2015 by TheKevlarKid
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[Bibs]

22 hours ago, Bibs said:

I believe it's now in Thailand. 

 

https://www.instagram.com/beamsaranyoo/

[TheKevlarKid]

That must be an old pic though bibs, it didn't look anywhere near as good as it does in that picture when I saw it a couple of months ago... Can't believe anyone would repaint it that colour, cost in excess of 10k the first time round???

I thought it had gone somewhere a little more local than that.

[Bibs]

Look at the guys Instagram page, he's posting pics of the car up every week. The one above was last week... 

[TheKevlarKid]

Ah okay, I knew that a couple of them had not been reworked by the factory and were sold off 'as is' rather than being scrapped off with the rest of them, the Swiss beatz being one of them. 

 

Edited November 13, 2015 by TheKevlarKid

[Bibs]

I did enjoy ripping the piss out of Swizzy at the time for his revolutionary Lotus which he, err, had painted red. We ran a campaign for people to vote on how much of a monumentally bad idea it was to have him involved with the company and he engaged his 650k+ followers to vote him up! Was quite funny but ultimately, another very sad Bahar idea.

 

[Snoopy1969]

the car on instagram is a "normal" Evora with boards, no mansory parts, all these parts put off before selling?

 

[Gravel]

Yeah, I can see why Danny liked him :D

[TheKevlarKid]

Yeah, you are right, it's a normal evora. Didnt notice as too busy looking at the colour...

The swizz car is definitely still in existence although I doubt it will be in that colour again when it resurfaces.

 

 

Edited November 13, 2015 by TheKevlarKid

[Bibs]

You think this car is Thailand is another Chrome Red Evora and not the Swizzy one? I find it incredible anyone would choose to paint their car that colour. It was hugely expensive and hugely troublesome paint.

[C8RKH]

Forget for a minute the expense and the troublesome paint and look at the pictures I posted - I find it incredible how any one would not want that paint.

Now, take off the rose tinted specs and do the research and find out it is a troublesome paint and it will cost 10k - OK, I find it incredible anyone would do it!  Doesn't mean when done it ain't drop dead gorgeous though...