Peoples’ reaction to your Evora

[JayEmm]

As a Lotus owner, sometimes is pays to be accepting of the fact that different cars appeal to different people. When I talk to younger guys, most of them haven't really heard of the Evora so I always take the time to point out the things that make it stand out, or the many reasons it is (in my mind) a "better" car than an M4 etc...

[Bruss]

Had a few people with rather nice cars admiring mine over the last week. All commented on its looks and its interior, its fit and finish, and its performance on track.  Two people asked why they hadn't seen this model when they looked at the the car at the dealers.  Sad to say that I had to tell them all the bits they were admiring weren't available from Lotus. I love Lotus but they are missing a trick by making 90% of the car and then not finishing it to customer expectations. There is a market out there for customer spec cars. 

[C8RKH]

Any pics of your custom interior Bruss. I've done quite a bit of work on my Evora S1 interior and a colleague with a brand new £64k tricked out M3 was well impressed. Well he was until I pointed out to him my car was half the cost of his and our other colleague said his looked like a rep mobile where as mine looked like a super car!  hahaha, my god did I piss my pants...

[Bruss]

[C8RKH]

Lovely. Very nice indeed.

[Alfa2Evora]

I attended a breakfast meet on Sunday organised, at a local(ish) dealer of pre-owned high-end gentlemens' carriages, by GT Scotland.

As I pulled up outside the location, I began to think I might be out of my depth as there were already lined up a couple of Aventadors and a Huracan, a McLaren 650 Spider and 675LT, a couple of AM V12 Vanquish S, and more 911s than you could shake a stick at, including the new R version (are they really commanding £500k+ on the used market.............for a glorified Beetle? ) to mention but a few of the wide selection of exotic metal on show.

However, as soon as I jumped out, the Evora was surrounded by a sizeable crowd photographing it from all angles (including at great personal risk by some from the centre line of the busy main road alongside) with a lot of compliments and questions accompanying comments along the lines of "rare as rocking horse poo" etc. Made my day that I'd made their day, and it even got a few seconds of 'fame' in the official event video, .

 

 

[Colin P]

Think I may have set a record for the longest distance reaction to my Evora.......

Just spent this evening with my big brother, he is working in Washington for 3 years, but in the UK for some meetings this week and is staying with our parents. One of his US counterparts is with him, who, apparently turned up at his doorstep in Washington at the beginning of September......

"Mark, come and take a look at this, I've brought the toy"

"Oh an Evora"

"You know what it is?"

"Yes, my brother just chopped one of those in for a 400" 

Appararently his face was a picture 

Looks like I may have a visitor, if they get a chance.

[Colin P]

His sound a bit special. Mark thought he had referred to it as an Evora Black, or something similar. US only model with carbon roof, spoiler and other bits and pieces. Does anyone have any info on this version? Sounds a bit like the carbon concept.

[Bravo73]

The 'Black Pack' was essentially the US paint version of the Sport Racer i.e. roof, sills, wing mirrors all painted black. 

If these parts are actually all carbon fibre, I suspect that they might actually be after market (i.e. HKfever). Although I've seen some prototype OEM carbon parts, they weren't readily available IIRC. 

[Colin P]

That's what I thought but Mark was under the impression that he'd bought it new and they were standard. I'll get Mark to keep digging. 

[TheKevlarKid]

I was at Croft circuit last Friday with the red GTE. There was guy there in a brand new black Ferrari 488gtb at the other end of the paddock from me ,i was actually in the outer paddock. Later in the afternoon (after he'd completely shagged his front left tyre after only a couple of sessions) he came wandering up to see what car it was I was in, seemed like his curiosity got the better of him and had to find out...

He knew it was a Lotus but didn't know which and thought it was too big for an elise/exige but he'd never seen anything like it before and didn't know lotus made such a good looking car. After a couple of minutes chatting to him about it I offered him a pax ride out which he accepted. Out on track he started commenting on how strong the brakes felt and was asking what type they were, told him they were a steel grooved disc with an uprated pad (carbon jobbies on his ferrari), he was also commenting on how composed it was on its suspension and how well it turned in. You could tell he was genuinely impressed with the whole package from his first comments on it walking up to the car. Went on to say he was looking for a trackday car for him and his brother to share and asked if when we got back in i'd take his brother out also... of course I did and got pretty much the same comments back from him about the car as his brother before him.

 

They asked how much was it of course and when I told them and they both raised an eyebrow... you could see the man workings and calculations going through both their heads.

For me it was a very nice gesture that someone in one of the newest supercars available took such an interest in the Lotus and like to think they went away with serious consideration towards buying one after trying one!! 

 

[Bravo73]

11 minutes ago, TheKevlarKid said:

They asked how much was it of course and when I told them and they both raised an eyebrow... 

Did you also tell them that they won't be able to buy one (especially not a 'track only' one like your's)? 

[JayEmm]

@TheKevlarKid that seems like a fairly common thing, I've heard numerous stories from various places about people who own serious exotica but are still blown away by the Evora - or who feel it offers something that cars costing many times the price just don't.

[C8RKH]

20 minutes ago, Bravo73 said:

Did you also tell them that they won't be able to buy one (especially not a 'track only' one like your's)? 

The green GTN car is still for sale is it not at around £48k. That would be a no brainer surely for them?

[Colin P]

3 hours ago, Bravo73 said:

The 'Black Pack' was essentially the US paint version of the Sport Racer i.e. roof, sills, wing mirrors all painted black. 

If these parts are actually all carbon fibre, I suspect that they might actually be after market (i.e. HKfever). Although I've seen some prototype OEM carbon parts, they weren't readily available IIRC. 

Ok, apparently it is about 3 years old. Black with carbon parts, bought new and was a limited edition for the US only. Sounds like a nice package to me.

[Bravo73]

55 minutes ago, C8RKH said:

The green GTN car is still for sale is it not at around £48k. That would be a no brainer surely for them?

It's close but it won't have the wider track of the GTE. 

20 minutes ago, Colin P said:

Ok, apparently it is about 3 years old. Black with carbon parts, bought new and was a limited edition for the US only. Sounds like a nice package to me.

Fair enough. Can he get any photos of it?

[Colin P]

Going to try and get some when they are back in the states.

[DJW]

One of my friends picked up a 991 GT3RS yesterday, so good excuse for a bunch of us to go for a hoon ending up at a cafe for brekkie. 

Get there and RS owner states he won't follow me again.  He was trying to get to know his car, but couldn't hear his engine or exhaust over the noise from the Evora 

The RS does sound nice though on full chat ....just a tad out of my price range !!

[JayEmm]

I was out in the Elise the other day, turned a corner and coming the other direction was another Ardent Red 111R. Had to stop and say hi, had a quick chat with the guy. We remarked on the likelihood of such a meeting. I mentioned my other cars, including the Evora. He said "Oh, is it yellow?" and I said yep, he said "I followed you the other day, very nice car!"

Which was nice.

[Colin P]

On 11/4/2016 at 23:36, Colin P said:

Think I may have set a record for the longest distance reaction to my Evora.......

Just spent this evening with my big brother, he is working in Washington for 3 years, but in the UK for some meetings this week and is staying with our parents. One of his US counterparts is with him, who, apparently turned up at his doorstep in Washington at the beginning of September......

"Mark, come and take a look at this, I've brought the toy"

"Oh an Evora"

"You know what it is?"

"Yes, my brother just chopped one of those in for a 400" 

Apparently his face was a picture 

Looks like I may have a visitor, if they get a chance.

.... so I had an American visitor today......

Managed to get the story on his car - brother got it all wrong!. It is a 2011 N/A in Gunmetal with the black pack.

From walking up to the back of the 400 from the road the superlatives started and the smile appeared on his face. Starting it had "the usual" reaction. Took him out for a little spin. Amazing was his opinion, but too bad we don't have them in the US - Oh yes you do, first couple of Dozen landed last month!

Looks like the man maths has started. 

[auRouge]

On 05/11/2016 at 10:10, C8RKH said:

The green GTN car is still for sale is it not at around £48k. That would be a no brainer surely for them?

I don't understand why this hasn't sold?!!

Its seems like amazing value... I've just put a deposit down on a Lotus (two more sleeps...?), it's the left hooker right? GTS 1 of 3 at B & C? 

Love the look of it, give it the Komo treatment and you have a 400 slayer! For 20k less ?

[Danelaw]

Can't be easy to get in and out with the side impact bars of the roll cage, so perhaps more of a track-day car than an all-rounder.

 

[C8RKH]

Yes, totally stripped out interior too. it's stunning. So purposeful.

[Bibs]

13 hours ago, auRouge said:

I've just put a deposit down on a Lotus

Spill the beans!!! 

[Trevsked]

The GTS is pretty easy to get in and out of I found, great car.

 

Trevor.