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09-20-2009, 02:04 AM
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I can't wait for someone to make this a 3 seater ala the Mclaren F1. This seems like the perfect car to do it.
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09-20-2009, 05:12 AM
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09-20-2009, 07:43 AM
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09-20-2009, 08:15 AM
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...between the boot, engine, and and retracting hardtop, it's amazing how much they plan to stuff back there...
...i wonder if it'll have a flat rear deck with buttresses similar to the elise?..that could look amazing, but i guess any retractable hardtop rules out a targa configuration...
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09-20-2009, 10:04 AM
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09-20-2009, 10:08 AM
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Or way before that...
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09-20-2009, 10:37 AM
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What a crap article- as far as I know, the convertible has always been a 2 seat roadster. There was never going to be any room for an automatic roof mech with the rear seats in situ.
As for the factory SC being 400 bhp- no chance in he'll. About 330 is more likely - lotus will not warranty the engine themselves so will rely on toyota providing this which means Toyota restrictions on what lotus can and can't do. The engine used in the evora is already supercharged in other cars and about 320hp so with a little lotus fettling 330 I think will be doable. Not to say there won't be a stripped out limited production of track evoras (say an evora rs) but these will be more akin to the recent evora race car with zero comforts if it has anywhere near 400hp. Lotus won't endanger the esprit halo car with an evora of similar performance. |
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09-20-2009, 12:57 PM
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09-20-2009, 01:35 PM
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the Mclaren F1 deprted the traditional flat firewall in order to place the a longitude drivetrain in the foot print of a transverse car. the way gordon murray accomplished that was to push the drive train into the passanger compartment, and then push the driver deep into the front axle line, - that required the cental seating - then he ploped the passangers on either side of the nose of the drive train and behind the front wheels (in the Mclaren F1 the engine is "in" the passanger comparment, and the driver is "in" the front axle) - the central seating required deep roof openiings, so that why it has the gull wingstyle doors to get in and out of the darn thing. you could put a chevy bench seat in an evora i suppose - but you could not do an ala McLaren F1 layout in an evora chassis and drivetrain. (or like the matra tard'up posted ((thanks for that picture too btw! little transverse french thingies of the past!!, but i allways like the bahagree "alfa junior z" like matra the most)) - a flat firewall like bench of seats. so it "could" be done "matra" like - but there is not enough width in the evora tub to d othat either.) nothing about the F1 is gimicy... its very inovative packaging is how it achieved its dramatic performance #'s a traditional layout would have resulted in an ala lamborgini v-12 packaged car....
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