Recent content by cyanmauve

No offense to the Evora GT. It’s the car that convinced me to buy a Lotus, and for a long time I thought about a lightly used Evora GT rather than an Emira. Mostly because it is a little raucous and flashy!

Lotus shot itself in the foot when it initially announced the car and the target price. I understand that the world changed between the announcement and the actual production of the car, but I think expectation and reality were just too far apart for a lot of people. Frankly, I wonder if the...

First, I'll admit, I'm an Emira fanboy. Now that I've said that, I think the Emira CRUSHES the Portofino on styling!

Our cars would feel absolutely wild with 600 hp. Wild in a way that I think old-school supercars would feel. I need it!

My guess is that it's limited by traction and the manual transmission. GM got to a point with F/R layout of the final C7 manual Corvette where they just couldn't make the car quicker without increasingly race/track focused parts. A lot of the recent improvement in 0-60 times has come from DCT...

Thanks for the comparison. I wonder what a high end engine build, like a 500 hp JUBU upgrade, would make then Emira feel like. Another 1000 RPM and 75-100 HP would make the car feel wild, I think. For me, the Emira’s transmission could be improved as well. It’s not bad, it’s just not great...

It has a blue cast in certain lighting.

Longevity and general performance. Blow by can lower the octane of fuel. The can should help eliminate that.

Hopefully everything is sorted out now and you can enjoy your car!

That’s for the courts to decide. However, I won’t be the one to get a definitive answer for the forum.

Your pic makes me second guess my upper black pack!

The rear 3/4 view looks like Emira of The Month to me!

I think the time is ripe for a Saudi prince with a passion for the brand’s heritage to purchase it outright for pennies on the dollar and re-re-re-introduce Lotus to the world! Or maybe, in an odd twist of fate, Mazda buys Lotus, as both companies share a passion for driving enthusiasm but from...

Lotus won’t go under. You think this is the worst it’s ever been for this company? Not by a long shot.

I’m a couple of hours south of Dallas in Waco. To me and most Texans, anything below 70 is cold, and anything below 30 is hell. I wouldn’t last more than 2 days in a Canadian winter. You should come visit in January or February for a good laugh. Whole cities shut down if there’s even a chance...