La nouvelle Lotus Evora (projet Eagle)

[choup]

La différence de performance est négligeable pour le client à mon humble avis.

L'Evora est comme le Cayman S clairement hors de prix, encore que dans le cas de la Lotus la pillule passe mieux, notamment grâce au châssis alu et aux volumes de production bien inférieurs.

L'erreur de Porsche est d'avoir tarifé le Cayman plus cher que le Boxster (le contraire de tous les autres d'ailleurs), surtout que ces deux voitures partagent beaucoup d'éléments avec la 911 (40% me semble-t-il). Le Cayman est trop cher pour intéresser de nouveaux clients et trop proche de la 911 pour intéresser les clients historiques, il n'a en plus pas la polyvalence du Boxster.

En France, un Cayman bien équipé flirte avec les prix d'une M3 remisée qui en offre à mon sens beaucoup plus pour son argent.

Ils ont le syndrome 911 Turbo chez Porsche, vendre beaucoup plus cher un produit marginalement plus coûteux à produire.

PS : Encore fait un beau hors-sujet ...

[SebM]

Lotus annonce une EVORA CUP...

Lotus Motorsport announces the Evora Cup race car together with an innovative European points based race series for 2010. The race car will make its first public appearance at the Autosport International racing car show in Birmingham, UK on the 14th January 2010.

The Lotus Evora is a highly acclaimed road car that incorporates many race car elements to give it incredible handling and performance. The Evora has a mid-engine layout, high-tech, super-stiff extruded and bonded aluminium chassis and double wishbone suspension all round. These elements mean that it is a relatively easy progression from the production car to a competitive race car.

The Evora Cup race car has been developed by Lotus Motorsport and is designed to offer a level of performance that would make it competitive in GT4 racing. The race car will be eligible to compete in a number of different national and international series, with options for endurance racing and sprint racing.

The Evora Cup show car is finished in Epsom Green with a Solar Yellow stripe down the centre. It is an evocative sports car that will offer a great platform to race in high level motor sport.

At the heart of the Evora Cup race car is a new 4 litre V6 race engine that boasts more than 400 PS and a dry sump system for the high cornering forces encountered during racing. The mid mounted engine is mated to a Cima six speed sequential paddle shift dog gearbox, which is designed for international motor sport.

The efficient Evora body has received a Dallara developed aero package, which includes a number of updated carbon fibre parts and significantly improves performance for racing applications, giving greater downforce and improved cooling.

“Performance through light weight” is a Lotus philosophy and the Evora Cup race car has been pared down to less than 1200 kg, which translates into a reduction of more than 200 kgs over the production car. This weight saving has been achieved by using high performance parts and materials and deleting parts not required for motor sport

The Evora Cup race car will come with adjustable motor sport dampers and six piston front brake callipers, with two piece aluminium belled brake discs. The car has an electrical cut off, fire extinguisher, traction control and is designed to have all the relevant FIA compatible motor sport equipment to race.

Claudio Berro, Director of Motorsport at Group Lotus plc stated, “Lotus has an enviable heritage of producing very competitive racing cars and we wish to continue this heritage with the Evora Cup race car. The company started by creating world beating racing cars and this is evident from the design of Lotus cars as the production cars have many racing car design features and perform exceptionally well on track.”

Claudio Berro continues, “The Evora Cup racing car is the first step along the route for Lotus Motorsport to realise its racing ambitions. I am looking forward to seeing the Evora racing this year in the Lotus Evora Cup competition and I am excited by the plans for 2011, where Lotus intends to introduce a pan European one make race series for the Evora Cup.”

The 2010 Evora Cup series will be a European event with points initially being awarded to competitors for entering races with the points values awarded relative to Evora finishing positions. There will be five points for attending any eligible national race meeting with five points awarded for the first Evora to finish down to one point for the fifth.

The series will then culminate with two Lotus Festivals, with provisional dates for Donington Park in the UK (16th & 17th October 2010) and the second at Vallelunga in Italy (21st and 22nd November 2010). All the competitors from around Europe will be invited to race at these festivals and there will be double points on offer. The championship winner will be the driver who accrues the most number of points from a maximum of 6 races over the 2010 season.

A prize fund of at least €100,000 will be available.

The final design and specifications will be presented at the Geneva Motorshow in March 2010.

Drivers are invited to register their interest at the Lotus Evora Cup website: http://www.lotusevoracup.com

The Evora Cup race car will go on sale at £120,000 excluding taxes.

[lio---]

alors la, je comprends plus rien

[ze_shark]

La photo mérite un plus grand format pour montrer le minimalisme du photoshop. Ils cartonnent en RH chez Lotus, mais question crédibilité du contenu, ça reste ... light.

[Corsugone]

Bah Lotus va singer Ferrari, cela vous surprend ....

[jl32]

L'édition 40ème anniversaire de Sport Auto comprend le supertest de l'Evora (enfin !)

C'est un numéro réservé aux abonnés ? Je ne me souviens pas d'avoir lu ce test ?
C'est le N° de décembre ? Quelqu'un a une photo de la couverture ?

thanks

[choup]

Non il s'agit de Sport Auto allemand. Le n° 40ème anniversaire est toujours en vente je crois.

www.sportauto-online.de

[choup]

Essai Autocar de l'Evora 2+0. Une photo permet de se rendre compte de l'espace dégagé par l'absence de sièges :



L'essai complet : http://www.autocar.co.uk/CarReviews/Fir ... V6/246523/

[sylvain007]

C'est énorme... A l'échelle Lotus je veux dire

De quoi mettre au moins.... pfffou, ouais, tout ca

[Corsugone]

Cette nouvelle version de l'Evora avec ses améliorations de boite et d'embrayage me fait l'effet d'un bidouillage généralisé. Vibrations supplémentaires, bruits supplémentaires, embrayage plus pointu (de ce que j'en comprends), bref, rien de rassurant. Cela ne me surprend pas ....

[ze_shark]

Gros carton en Suisse, 5 voitures en tout et pour tout ont été livrées en 2009. Ca fait toujours plus que les 3 Europa vendues en 2008.
49 Lotus vendues au total pendant l'année, 29 Elise (2008: 47), 15 Exige (2008: 19), c'est bien maigrichon.

[Corsugone]

[sylvain007]

Excellent, la Lotus restera donc une voiture d'exception en Suisse

[Igor]

Et encore on peut supposer que les 5 voitures en question sont celles destinées aux concessionnaires Lotus en Suisse comme voiture de démo

Pas bien forts les stratèges de Lotus

[Corsugone]

Igor a été plus rapide que moi, je partage sa remarque .....