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Lotus Evora

post #1 of 34
10/7/08 at 3:51am
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Looks nice, hopefully little more car than the Elise...

/C
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post #2 of 34
10/7/08 at 2:10pm
I love the car, especially the concept of a mid-engined 2+2 car (even though the rear seats would likely not fit much).
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post #3 of 34
10/7/08 at 3:14pm
toyota engine again?
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post #4 of 34
10/7/08 at 3:44pm
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toyota engine again?
could well be, but: v6 3.5l vvt
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post #5 of 34
10/7/08 at 11:54pm
beautiful car since it has everything i'd want. 4 seats, performance, and good gas mileage.
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post #6 of 34
10/8/08 at 12:13am
I love my Exige S, but this looks much more practical..better than a rip off P car.
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post #7 of 34
10/8/08 at 12:17am
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toyota engine again?

Yes, but as mentioned elsewhere, the pricetag is likely to be astronomical.

--Andre
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post #8 of 34
10/8/08 at 12:21am
Actually a Yahama engine rebaged as a toyota, but that is better.
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post #9 of 34
10/8/08 at 11:34am
There's something strange looking about the rear 1/3 of the car. It's like it has an exotic front end and the rear of a current celica, the way it is choppy. I'm not a huge fan of the way the rear window intersects either. It much more practical however than the Elise. I actually wish we had the Lotus Europa here.
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post #10 of 34
11/20/08 at 10:16pm
Looks like this car is going to enter production, and possibly enter the North American market as well:

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/l...to-the-states/

I'm hopeful that as more car companies become more environmentally conscious, designs like this will be more common: efficient, light cars that rethink the normal car packaging to get better use of space in a smaller car. Lighter cars, soup to nuts, have less environmental impact than heavier cars, too.

--Andre
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post #11 of 34
11/20/08 at 10:30pm
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Looks like this car is going to enter production, and possibly enter the North American market as well:

http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/20/l...to-the-states/

I'm hopeful that as more car companies become more environmentally conscious, designs like this will be more common: efficient, light cars that rethink the normal car packaging to get better use of space in a smaller car. Lighter cars, soup to nuts, have less environmental impact than heavier cars, too.

--Andre

Yeah, it's definitely going into production. My friend was invited to a small, private reveal put on by Lotus down in Orange County a few days ago. I believe getting a better foothold in NA is part of Lotus' interest in getting into ALMS.
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post #12 of 34
11/21/08 at 1:13am
What did your friend think of the car?

--Andre
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post #13 of 34
11/21/08 at 1:34am
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What did your friend think of the car?

--Andre

She thought it would definitely be a better daily than the Elise or Exige she's tested since it's far more refined, which is what they were going for.

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post #14 of 34
11/21/08 at 6:27am
Thanks, Lotus, for showing me my next car. Not immediately, but probably in the next 5-7 years.
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post #15 of 34
11/21/08 at 11:36am
I like this one a lot.
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