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Rich B wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:58 am Tubby indeed - I was surprised that an Evora was heavier than a Golf.

So Thats why @mik couldnt drop me when i had the R

Rich B wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:58 am Tubby indeed - I was surprised that an Evora was heavier than a Golf.

Well how wrong was I?

Evora isn’t the lightest car, but then it’s nearest competitor is the 911. Which also isn’t the lightest car. I have not compared the weight of a 911 to a Golf, but someone probably should.

scotta wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:16 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:58 am Tubby indeed - I was surprised that an Evora was heavier than a Golf.

So Thats why @mik couldnt drop me when i had the R

That was the VXR8, and I was saving the breaks. Where is that JustGoFaster list of excuses?

mik wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:20 pm

scotta wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:16 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:58 am Tubby indeed - I was surprised that an Evora was heavier than a Golf.

So Thats why @mik couldnt drop me when i had the R

That was the VXR8, and I was saving the breaks. Where is that JustGoFaster list of excuses?

We tested it with the Evora as well...

Wasn't there an argument on here that S2 elises are really overweight and only driven by people with small cocks?

I didn't say any of that, just remember reading it

Mito Man wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:27 pm Wasn't there an argument on here that S2 elises are really overweight and only driven by people with small cocks?

I didn't say any of that, just remember reading it

Probably - thought the early S2 Elises with the K-series weren't much heavier than the S1. I think the quoted weight of my 2001 S2 was 750kg. The Toyota engines were heavier, as was the extra kit, sound deadening etc which they added over the years so the last S2s were over 900kg, IIRC.

I never believed that the electric windows were lighter than the manual ones either, but since the mechanism for the manual ones was flaky I'd have happily swapped for electric

mik wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:20 pm

scotta wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:16 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:58 am Tubby indeed - I was surprised that an Evora was heavier than a Golf.

So Thats why @mik couldnt drop me when i had the R

That was the VXR8, and I was saving the breaks.

But they were so big.

Jobbo wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 12:40 pm
Probably - thought the early S2 Elises with the K-series weren't much heavier than the S1. I think the quoted weight of my 2001 S2 was 750kg.

Shirley more than that? That's more or less the same weight as an S1.

No thats about right, early S2's come in around 750 sometimes less. I built a 280hp honda engined one that was just under 750.

Current toyota engined elises like the cup models are over 900 kilos. V6's 1150kg +

Fair enough. I know my old Exige was over 900kg, but it was a 'yota obvs.

When’s your one going to be finished Dan?

Never!

Engine will be in and running as soon as my custom billet crank is finished though.

Ooopz - hang on - potential complete strategic u-turn (again)....

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/lotus- ... otus/43682

Blamestorming the impending outrage at Volvo engined Lotii.
They'll probably have gotten heavier too.

We could fish for lurking JL’s by discussing the upcoming high-speed-testing programme?

Don’t really know where else to put it, but I was quite impressed to see in a recent carwow video that the Alfa giulia quad weighs 1535kg, which I’ve long considered ‘about right’ for a mid size family saloon, ie e36 / 46 m3s. Seems that the aluminium and carbon fibre parts have for once helped balance out the added weight of modern tech and safety equipment.

integrale_evo wrote: Fri Jan 29, 2021 6:24 pm Don’t really know where else to put it, but I was quite impressed to see in a recent carwow video that the Alfa giulia quad weighs 1535kg, which I’ve long considered ‘about right’ for a mid size family saloon, ie e36 / 46 m3s. Seems that the aluminium and carbon fibre parts have for once helped balance out the added weight of modern tech and safety equipment.

Quoted and real life are quite far apart as is usually the case with these things

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-review/al ... lio/design

They must have used those same scales that Ferrari have, gravity is a bit less in Modena I hear.

Oh well, disappointingly porky in real life then

Top journalistic stuff as usual from autoExpress.

“our exclusive images preview how it could look”

This is definitely not just someone in the office doing a mashup of an Evora and an Evija





https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/lotus/106 ... a-are-axed