DJFirstEdition
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I took my one-day-old car (bought yesterday) out for a spirited drive today in the canyons for three hours.
It is a very engaging machine.
I am a regular Joe who likes cars. I don't know the correct terminology, so I might get this wrong when I say that a car has a "very linear power band," or maybe it's "very linear power delivery."
Either way, it reminded me that "smooth is fast" and "fast is smooth" and that I should use the car's momentum so I did.
You put the pedal down smoothly and the car responds well, gets going, and keeps going in a "straight line of power" (if that makes sense).
I always ignored the Supercharger >< Turbocharger threads, but now I am Team Supercharger.
I felt connected to the road, as is the Lotus promise. The car was glued to the road through turns, and a posted limit of "15 MPH" felt like a printing and installation mistake.
It is such a tremendous canyon-carving car...
...with some quirks, I need to document and post about to see if they are typical or atypical.
None of which distracted me from the driving experience at all, but they didn't seem like they should be
-Some rattles at low RPM
-Perhaps some rubbing with the wheel hard left or hard right at low speed
-Random Apple Car Play disconnections
And now I have some firsthand experience with the things people have been saying all this time, like the grabby brakes that take some getting used to.
3 hours isn't much experience to speak of, but here I am, a happy Lotus owner.
It is a very engaging machine.
I am a regular Joe who likes cars. I don't know the correct terminology, so I might get this wrong when I say that a car has a "very linear power band," or maybe it's "very linear power delivery."
Either way, it reminded me that "smooth is fast" and "fast is smooth" and that I should use the car's momentum so I did.
You put the pedal down smoothly and the car responds well, gets going, and keeps going in a "straight line of power" (if that makes sense).
I always ignored the Supercharger >< Turbocharger threads, but now I am Team Supercharger.
I felt connected to the road, as is the Lotus promise. The car was glued to the road through turns, and a posted limit of "15 MPH" felt like a printing and installation mistake.
It is such a tremendous canyon-carving car...
...with some quirks, I need to document and post about to see if they are typical or atypical.
None of which distracted me from the driving experience at all, but they didn't seem like they should be
-Some rattles at low RPM
-Perhaps some rubbing with the wheel hard left or hard right at low speed
-Random Apple Car Play disconnections
And now I have some firsthand experience with the things people have been saying all this time, like the grabby brakes that take some getting used to.
3 hours isn't much experience to speak of, but here I am, a happy Lotus owner.
. So phoned today to get some touch up paint from Lotus only to be told that they don't do such a thing! So ordered the Chipex systme which apparently guarantees to be an exact match for my Magma Red. Fingers crossed it is.
