Recent content by daniel heald

I saw Porsche have their issues too. The EV Macan has been delayed to 2024 and no mention was made for the EV Boxster/cayman.

I am with you completely. Lets take a first year 718, 718 was the name chosen to highlight the beauty of the flat four racers from the fifties, and drop that car in the test. Wipe out, a full garage sale, not even close. I know dismiss this comment because the video was about new cars for...

I have to laugh. Apologies, as the old TV show might say "No Offence". I look around and I do not see a functioning capitalist society. From too big too fail to corruption at the very top of our society's. VW and dieselgate. Boeing and 737 Max Big pharma getting indeminty from an...

My local Porsche independant dealer is doing very nice business swapping active dampers out on 911s for a well tuned normal damper. He says they are great for journalists on a three hour test but useless for the real world over the lfe time of the car. He even said the Bilstien active are a...

I get the angst being vented. I really do. And on the other hand how do Lotus communicate effectively when, I suspect, they do not really know and worse can't accurately predict when production may start. There are too many factors outside their control. Lotus might get a message lockdown is...

Nova ,assumptions makes fools of us. Let me make my case, good or bad for myself. I had no counter factual argument or intention. I respect, expect and trust Lotus to make design choices with good intent. I have no value in one suspension choice over another. The point I wanted to get across is...

I drive a Vantage and it has a similar layout to the Emira. Alot of the time it works for smaller soft bags. The seats have to move forward, to create an opening to load stuff in behoind the seats. This takes time and planning as the bags need to be put down to move the seat. Hard bags are...

Yes, so much talk has been about the improved userbility of the car.: materials, cabin storage and comfort. So matching the luggage space to the benchmark car seems to me to be in the same ball park and a relatively easy one to do. A shopping bag of food is at risk of over heating in the boot...

Putting the engine aside for a moment. The thing i struggle with most is the luggage space in the Emira. The Cayman has has been clearly stated as the benchmark for the Emira. Knowing this why oh why have less luggage space? Why make what there is overly hot and or less accesible. I drive a...

I do get the frustration. Lotus could have said more. They are a small company with little power over many of their suppliers is my guess. When the parts do not arrive at the factory for assembly then cars can't be assembled. How do you communicate this with out upsetting your suppliers? Not...

The reviews have had some contrast in them! Fair, we have to assume. A filter is needed. Driving ourselves is the only really true answer.

Cant disagree and cars are built for: road use road and track use track and very limited road use Evo's sin is to compare a compromised road and track car with a track car and pass it off as a fair appraisal. Not close to an apples to apples comparison. I do take the Evo review onboard and...

Damned if you do and damned if you dont . Various suppliers are not delivering the parts to the factory. Taking into account world events this is probably the best car Lotus could offer to Journos. May be even all the car Lotus could put together due to the circumstances. How would these pages...

It was raining, there are publishing deadlines and the report would be more damaging if Pilot2 tyred car had gone cross country so to speak. Poor journalism by Evo not too highlight this. For example Harry Metcalf had a question, on the tour/sport choice, Lotus answered it. So not the best...

Don't forget a second V6 'cos the Emira is too girly a car for a real man!