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Originally Posted by DeanG
I hope to have an Evora (a light blue convertible with automatic please) some day and I don't think I will be dissatisfied. That will leave our 1958 Seven for spirited open air motoring and allow me to say disparaging things about Elise owners like "Real men drive Sevens, those posers in their Elise don't understand true sports cars". Our 1967 Elan, the best handling car in the world, for communing with the road and allow me to say disparaging things about Elise owners like "The fat tires, A/C and ABS of the Elise keep the poor Elise drivers from experiencing true subtlety of a drivers car." Our 1991 Elan for short pleasure trips and allow me to say disparaging things about Elise owners like "Poor souls, If they only had a true convertible that is vice less and practical they would be much happier. Maybe they should try and Evora"  |
You forgot to add "And don't even get me started talking about those mamby pamby Miata drivers. They should just take their rainbow sticker bearing wanna-be Lotus cars and their touchy feely emo music and go choke themselves with their scarfs."
How's that? Make you feel any better?
It still does not change my initial impressions / opinions regarding the Evora. I suppose we'll both have to see how the car does on the road and in the marketplace. I sincerely hope that I am wrong and it is a huge success because as Al pointed out, we don't want Lotus pulling out of the US market or even worse doing a Chrysler / GM on us.
But let's be realistic here for a moment, the road going GT / exotic market is a pretty tough market to compete in and $80K can get you riding down the road in some pretty nice cars. And with the deals you can cut at dealerships these days, $80k cash is more like $100-110 sticker price range. Of course you can't buy an Evora right now, so perhaps that's irrelevant.
BTW, if a Lotus USA rep is reading these forums they've already seen how happy I am with the after-sale service / treatment we get here in Houston. It makes me want to run out and buy a Evora, may be even two. I'd also be happy to tell you how accommodating and friendly the local Parts Dept. is.
But that is another topic and I would need more than a few hits of the Koolade to calm my enthusiasm.