Recent content by VicVenlo

Official emission has been confirmed by the authorities in Europe: 207 gram. That is the basis for the i4 selling price. In the Netherlands with its ridiculous BPM sales tax this means the official sticker price for the i4 FE is 127 thousand Euro: I'm out and back to an Evora.

Ordering the i4 FE in the Netherlands is still not possible. Despite promises of announcing the official retail price in Q1 2023 of the i4FE, there is still radio silence. I placed a deposit for a production slot (or whatever you want to call it) in november 2021. I have been in touch with the...

WLTP is a standard used by the car manufacturers, not by governments to base their taxation on. A independent certified notified body like the RDW in The Netherlands (which by the way also approved the Elise in 1996 for Europe) is required to perform the EU homologation.

I scrolled through all the replies above but have not seen anyone mention a possible emission reason for the moderate HP output of the i4. More and more EU countries, and The Netherlands in particular, are taxing CO2. That is the reason why up to now perhaps only 3 or 4 V6 were sold in The...

From day 1. I even drove two hours to Lotus Antwerp to go and see one in the flesh. Attached is the best picture I made that shows the difference between the silver metallic Exige and Nimbus Grey. But no photograph can do it justice, it is a very peculiar colour. And you cannot compare it to...

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And before anyone suggests we Dutchies buy our cars in Germany or Belgium: despite being in the EU which stands for free movement of goods between the members, the Dutch Government also will force you to pay that special vehicle tax (called BPM). I work in Germany, live in the Netherlands: I...

Thanks! First picture I see, looks great and a lot better than the alcantara version.

The demo I drove had an alcantara steering wheel and it looked like the packaging foam was still wrapped around it, ugly. The center-stripe looked awful and ugly stitched. But I have a question: has anyone actually seen an Emira leather steering wheel: even Harry Metcalff's Emira, with its...

A few observations as an engineer: the casting is incredibly thin walled, looks more like additive manufacturing (3D printing) than casting, but it will certainly be die-casting. Oil pump is belt driven, interesting to see what the mileage will be on that, but looks like fairly easy to get to...

I'm reading..I'm reading!!!... anywayzzz: happy to hear, since I will go for Touring. But I remember seeing a clear difference in the 2 cars featured in Harry's Garage first test drive... But perhaps I will put bags of cement on the passenger side and in the booth, like in the old days in the...

Didn't scroll through all the 21 pages of this thread, so maybe already discussed: did I notice that the ride height is different between both suspension options? I seem to have noticed the Emira with sport suspension sitting slightly lower (and optically nicer)?

I was so happy to see the mirrors dip when reversing during my test drive. I had an Evora S and always had to do that manually, and it's a must since the Evora"s rear wheelbase is so wide. What I noticed is that the mirrors really "zoom in" to the rear wheels: first they dip, then they turn...

No, it wasn't in there, it was the false Nimbus grey in the early configurator. I now photoshopped that picture to come close to Zinc grey solid.