Recent content by IanO

I’m half in half out. I think I’m similar to a proportion of people on the forum in that I was looking for a new car for around £55k when the Emira was revealed and the £60k starting price pulled me in. £60 became £76k which was a bit of a surprise but I stuck with it and then it became £80k...

Loads of great B-roads, take your pick. Had a cracking drive last May from Aberaeron to Tregaron on the B4577 onto the B4343 to Pontarfynach, B4574 to Rhayadar (beautiful views but a bit narrow for my tastes) then B4518 to LLanidloes. I'm not sure they would count as the top roads in the world...

Great looking car. These never made it to the uk but would definitely be tempted if they had, a very special Mustang with the flat plane V8. A lot of engineering effort for one variant of a vehicle.

Totally agree, in the second hand market the dealer will have to pay the appropriate price, which may be above list and sell it for what he can get. What would incense me is the USA system of the dealer charging above list for a new car for no better reason than he can hold you to ransom due to...

That looks like it would have been a bit exciting when it happened.

I saw your car yesterday when I was there for a test drive. Absolutely amazing colour combination. The red seats are spot on, not too bright, not too dark and they work really well with Nimbus. The black park and black wheels work well against the silver and the red callipers just tie it...

And did they get back to you or will it happen soon?

Plus the significant cost for adding the supercharger, chargecooler and cooling circuit and the rebuild costs on the transmission to add the Lotus specific gearing need to be added to the cost of the basic Toyota engine.

I will work on the structuring of my posts🙂. You are right in that China and ROW are different homologation processes so there is no extra cost homologating a 400hp engine vs the 360hp for the different markets, you will have the same number of homologations to perform. As you say, the 360hp...

I think only Matt Windle can answer that but my guess would be V6 as a premium engine with better sound and a manual gearbox option which a lot of enthusiasts want. i4 developed for the Chinese market where taxes are prohibitive for engines above 2L. This then gives the opportunity for a...

No front crash structure, no side impact bars, no airbags, no seatbelt pretensioners …..

Yes, it is definitely possible to meet the emissions with a high revving engine as Porsche and others have proved but the engine needs to be designed and developed to support this and at the time Toyota was working on the design of the V6 it is likely that Euro6d emissions had not even been...

Yes, to get back to the Evora max rpm is likely to be an emissions issue, to go above that to 7500, 8000 or 9000 rpm, which I think was the direction the original poster was looking for, then significant engineering is required. For the 430 tune I don’t know which euro 5 markets lotus sells...

The key issue for this age of engine is likely to be the temperature limits on the pistons, head and exhaust manifold, the more power you are producing the higher the component temperatures. If these limits are raised the next would be the inertial forces on the moving components, which increase...

Manufacturers can buy credits for CO2 emissions from other companies but having a higher rev limit will not affect the CO2. The power limiting issue is more likely to be due to the lower Carbon Monoxide of Euro 6d legislation requiring gas engines to run closer to lambda 1 at full load. This...