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| Bleyseng |
 Sep 4 2004, 07:15 AM
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Stumbled across this Lotus in Rethymon, Crete on the street. What is it?
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| Sammy |
Sep 6 2004, 09:04 AM
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Caution, Lotus rant ahead, don't read if you like Lotus cars or british engineering and are easily offended (I don't like lotus cars and am about to express my opinion):
Imagine a car that is more fragile and tempermental than a ferrari but without all of the performance or styling or appeal. Imagine if Lucas branched out into mechanical engineering and was responsible for reliability. What would you end up with? LOTUS! The epitome of poor british automobile engineering. (no offense). I can't believe anyone can compare a 914 to a lotus. The beauty of the 914 is that it is small, light, and strong! These things are tough as nails except for the rust thing. Can anyone really say that about a lotus? Porsche and lotus are exact opposites in my opinion when it comes to engineering. They have some nice styling, to a point. The Esprit almost gets there, the elan is..... never mind. The ergonomics are a joke for anyone over 5'8" I guess my biggest pieve about Lotus is that the cars had so much potential and never even got close to it. They never got past the styling mock-ups or protoype stages as far as execution goes. Given some real power, and engineering some strength and reliability into them would have made all the difference in the world. OK I feel better, flame away. |
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Bleyseng OT-what model is this Lotus? Sep 4 2004, 07:15 AM
Chris H. Looks like a newer Esprit. Sep 4 2004, 07:17 AM Jeroen Yep, should be one of the most recent/latest Espri... Sep 4 2004, 07:26 AM maf914 Has Esprit production stopped? Is there a replace... Sep 4 2004, 07:55 AM airsix gopack lotus showroom pic!
looks like it IS a late mo... Sep 4 2004, 09:38 AM vortrex I like those cars, twin turbo V8. Sep 4 2004, 09:52 AM lapuwali The one in that photo looks new enough that it... Sep 4 2004, 09:54 AM J P Stein Heard this story.
A Portland HIGH END dealership w... Sep 4 2004, 09:58 AM i love porsche mid engine too =]
they sound sooo nice Sep 4 2004, 12:12 PM thesey914 Lotus HAS stopped making the Esprit. Production st... Sep 4 2004, 01:11 PM jkeyzer I saw this recently.
:wub: Sep 4 2004, 01:48 PM michel richard Lotus Elan, (as it says on the side of the car). ... Sep 4 2004, 04:19 PM jimtab <... Sep 5 2004, 12:55 AM Jeroen Are you shittin' me. The Europa is cool!
R... Sep 5 2004, 07:46 AM Aaron Cox thesey914 redshift Uhoh... I just fopund out something that I have wo... Sep 5 2004, 11:13 AM jimtab <... Sep 5 2004, 11:36 AM lapuwali QUOTE
airsix <... Sep 5 2004, 12:19 PM mike_the_man Back to the Lotus thing here, my buddy has a Europ... Sep 5 2004, 03:07 PM mike_the_man Is that a very dusty 914 fender? Sep 5 2004, 03:10 PM thesey914 <... Sep 5 2004, 03:10 PM winnkhan i read that the elise will be priced @ 38,000 not ... Sep 5 2004, 04:31 PM redshift Qarl's Elise will be $52k, he is getting ... Sep 5 2004, 05:20 PM Aaron Cox <... Sep 5 2004, 07:23 PM redshift I'm stalled Sep 5 2004, 07:50 PM
lapuwali Lotuses were not particularly badly engineered com... Sep 6 2004, 09:23 AM |
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