Recent content by Tiger123

So, first year service carried out at Lotus Colchester on Friday and lo and behold first time the car hasn’t started since it was collected Aug ‘23, 9,500 miles ago…. Thankfully the lock and wait for 5 minutes seemed to resolve it - less than impressed!

5,000 miles since August and most of them in Europe too!

Glad you enjoyed! Every reason to be excited...!

Home time! Huge slog heading from Orange (via) Calais to London. For those interested, Jamiroquai were excellent, nearly three hours of magic in the amphitheatre. Started the day at the hotel having woken everyone up with a (non lumpy!) cold start. There is always a pretty noticeable lag on...

So six days after the last drive, I couldn’t resist making a trip up into the hills above Nice. Managed to convince my girlfriend into another pre 07:00 start to get onto the roads whilst they were empty and to give us enough time to get back to the pool for the afternoon sun (life’s about...

Glad you enjoyed - I know the feeling! It was a find from a PistonHeads thread and couldn’t believe I hadn’t known about it sooner! Keen to hear your thoughts from the other roads you hit up in the Alps!

A slight delay in this next update (I’ve been mixing work with pleasure, so remote working has been consuming my days). So day five with the car and as noted last time, mainly a motorway slog from from Lake Maggiore to our destination between Nice and Cannes. Leaving the Lakes is not all that...

Day four was pretty special. An early morning start heading to the Furka - Grimsel passes from Andermatt. As mentioned, the Radisson Blu is in a great location for the nearby roads (and clearly popular with Emira owners, @emirahl ) and helpfully, having convinced my girlfriend to leave pre...

Day three of ownership due to be the most exciting - unlikely to hit the famed 1000 mile figure, but as instructed opening up the car a little more and edging ever closer to the red line. Dijon to Andermatt via the Susten Pass, with an early start planned for day four to do Furka, Grimsel...

Day 2 of ownership was a mile munching trip from London to Dijon for the overnight stop before getting to the fun roads in Switzerland. Eurotunnel was a breeze and helpfully the car gets allocated by default to the large carriage. The ground clearance on the Emira is so much better than the...