Kev946

so? Design Studios and Chief Designers often have a style which is recognisable. Car's are styled by individuals not companies. The Zed was designed by 24 year old Asian Design Student from Leiester, not a bunch of Japanese guys....

They could of course both be styled in the same Italian Design Studio or maybe inspired at least. The first Esprit was a Giugiaro Design and Lotus built on this over the years. Not seer if the Eagle prototypes are inhouse or not but Lotus often look at their past when designing as do all car manufacturers. The Elise was designed in house and supposed to be inspired by the Ducati 916. They did have Italian design proposals but selected the inhouse design in preference.

Hardly a comparable car. Not sure what target market this car is for. I suspect the US is the main market for this car.

I think you will find it is disguised with extra panels stuck on which is pretty normal. I like the yellow prototype..

We are always slow here in the UK and a little isolated with our RHD cars. White is a great colour and will eventually become more popular. While Cossies are

For those that don't knnow, this is due out later in the year and will be a mid engine 4 seater sports car, well in 911 style, i.e. small back seats. Here's a spy shot and a couple of prototype shorts. http://autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpre ... eagle.html http://img.auto.cz/news/img/galleries/2 ... 553da9.jpg http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgur ... n%26sa%3DG

I'm hoping to get the Cossie back on track very soon. Had an whole year off last year, so hungry for some. I'll probably be going to Donington first as my local track for a shakedown then hopefuly a few others. Will keep you posted..

See http://www.leics.police.uk/news/1865_cr ... er_plates/ Easier than catching real criminals and good for the statistics....barstewards.....

They are great on the track. Very light weight...

This may have been posted before.. On the Lotus Elise: "This car is more fun than the entire French Air Force crashing into a firework factory." "This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that's much to shout about. That's like saying "Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases." Illustrating the lack of power of a Boxster - 'It couldn't pull a greased stick out of a pig's bottom' "I'm sorry, but having a DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch. If you've got even half a scrotum it's not going to happen." "We start tonight with the highlight of my childhood. It's the Ladybird Book of Motorcars from 1963, and as you would imagine it's full of rubbish really. Just endless boring grey shapes, until you get to page 40, where you find the Maserati 3500 GT. Now this for me, when I was little, was like kind of Jordan and Cameon Diaz. In a bath together. With a Lightning jet fighter. And lots of jelly." About the Porsche Cayman S: "There are many things I'd rather be doing than driving it, including waiting for Bernard Manning to come off stage in a sweaty nightclub, and then licking his back clean." ..."the last time someone was as wrong as you, was when a politician stepped off an aeroplane in 1939 waving a piece of paper in the air saying there will be no war with Germany" On the Alfa Romeo Brera... "I only have to imagine this in black, with tan leather and I'm nursing a semi!" Clarkson on the Vauxhall Vectra VXR: "there is a word to describe this car: it begins with "s" and ends with "t" and its not "soot". ammond: "So its fairly terrible then?" Clarkson:"Oh no...losing your leg is fairly terrible: this is another league of badness!" "some say, that he used to throw microwave ovens at homeless people - and that he long before anyone else realised that Jade Goody is a racist pig faced waste of blood and organs............all we know, is that he's called the Stig!" "the Suzuki Wagon R should be avoided like unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite" "Speed has never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary... That's what gets you." 'The air conditioning in Lambos used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw' "Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what... BEING STABBED?" "The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler" (Fed up during the caravanning trip): "You aren't allowed to have a party, you aren't allowed to hae music, you aren't allowed to play ball games, you aren't allowed to have a camp fire, you have to park within two feet of a post, you have to keep quiet, you have to be in bed by eleven. This is not a holiday, it's a concentration camp!" (Mercedes CLs55): "Braking in this car is so brutal, it would be less painful to actually hit the tree you were trying to miss." "I don't understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?" Clarksons highway code on cyclists: 'trespassers in the motorcars domain, they do not pay road tax and therefore have no right to be on the road, some of them even believe they are going fast enough to not be an obstruction. Run them down to prove them wrong' "I was reading The Mirror the other day and came across a letter from a reader who wrote, 'I was riding my bike to work when this red Ferrari pulled up next to me. Out of the window, Jeremy Clarkson shouted 'Get a car', and drove off.' What I actually said was, 'Get a car ou hatchet faced, leaf-eating N**i." "Britain's nuclear submarines have been deemed unsafe...probably because they don't have wheel-chair access" "Now we get quite a lot of complaints that we don't feature enough affordable cars on the show......so we'll kick off tonight with the cheapest Ferrari of them all!" "Now as you can see I lost the battle to have two engines on the back because of three very important reasons. One: weight. This is 600 Lbs and that's the same as having a whole American sitting on the tailgate..." In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was. "the DB9 has rear seats but no mammal yet created, ot even when God was on the LSD trip that gave us the pink flamingo, could fit into them." Assessing Hammond's crash: Clarkson: "you can see from the tape that the tyre is starting to come apart. Now why didn't you spot that?!" Hammond: "I had a lot on: I was doing 288 mph." Clarkson: "What do you mean you had a lot on? I can be in the office on the phone, doing the paperwork, kids are shouting at me, wife etc, but if a lion walks in, I'm going to notice it!" "Sure it's quiet, for a diesel. But that's like being well-behaved...for a murderer." "I don't often agree with the RSPCA as I believe it is an animals duty to be on my plate at supper time" "There are footballers wives that would be happy with this quality of stitching... on their face" "Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard coe adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face." "Much more of a hoot to drive than you might imagine. Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed. I do, and it helps." "you can't have this car with a diesel, its like saying, I wont go to stringfellows tonight, I'll get my mum to give me a lapdance, she's a woman!" Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sports car... in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President. Jeremy said this of the Porsche Cayenne! "Honestly, I have seen more attractive gangrenous wounds than this. It has the sex appeal of a camel with gingivitis

Just got this email

Now here's a proposition. Buy Rob's S1 and install a S/C's Honda V-Tec with 300 bhp + and you have one hell of a quick car for little outlay.

They are a good looking car in the flesh. The latest interior is very plush and a vast improvement, all leather covered dash and panels and nice stitiching. I think the Lotus factory will upgrade the interior too. I r3eckon they are now a good buy and surely depreciation should now slow down.

I've done Prince2 in a week. It's tough and hard work...

A lot of car for then money http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/349224.htm

I'm working in London Mon-Fri at the moment, otherwise I would pop over.

I can't do 12th. Self employed no paid holidays etc. and my Cossie needs some work which would be difficult given it's so close. Hope you guys enjoy yourselves and stay safe. Donington is a great track but can be slippy when wet, although the Zed is an easy car to drive in those situations. Hope to make the next one.

I'd prefer April too. I just going to struggle to get the car sorted in time. Also I always book Donington direct. Always they cheapest way

Well unless you are around 300 kgs you and your Caterham should be lighter than my porky pig Exige..... Just bought a race battery though which will save me 5 kg...

Donington don't normally do static tests so no pint in buying one. The drive buy reading will be very different as it is much further away but the engine is under load. Static tests are done at 45 deg to exhaust pipe one metre away both sides and with 3/4 of the max revs.

Just to reiterate, Donington don't normally do a static test on road cars. The drive by is 98 db's but you can ease off if you know where the sound meter is.. My Cossie is 105 db's static at 4k revs yet I've only been clocked at 104 db's max drive by, and then they let me play in the next session.

I'd rather be in a front engine rear drive car in the wet. I've been out in the wet at Donington in the Cossie and it's good fun tail happy stuff. The Exige is all grip grip grip..........whoops no grip spin... I'm 77 kgs BTW...how about you Steve... Reactions times are crap though...

Hello...... Well what do you expect. 350 kg lighter was hardly a fair fight.... It would have been better to see a pro driver such as Plato doing it. VBH had problems last time apparently and Tiff beat her lap by over 1 second. She did say the Exige was quicker in the wet too. She also got the lauch control all wrong. You don't have to turn the engine off and she should have set the the launch revs. So all she did was hit the rev limiter as the default is max revs, so it was all wheel spin and pointless. If anyone wants to see it again see link below http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JldoEhkWZ1w PS The CSR was awsome. I assume 260 bhp?

I've done bugger all getting my car sorted. No MOT, tax, insurance, needs 2 front wheel bearings and has an over tightened grabby diff.. I'll see if the local garage will fit me some wheel bearings..

Thanks mate. Yea I thougt that. Will be going round the island on my bike tomorrow so will be super careful. Didn't there used to be a site where you could report diesel spills? I think MCN set it up iirc. Not heard of that. I guess it's the highway agency.