Room for bat girl and kid's seats?
No jump seats for the kids this time. Unless I paid $40K for a 15 year old 911 there weren't any other non-two seater options for the handling I wanted. Kids will have to go one at a time - no complaints about that so far. Batgirl isn't returning my calls so that's not an issue. And as far as Badass goes, Perea's wife thinks it's "cute". Women (?!?).
Actually, Yamaha designed that engine in your Lotus for Toyota. The De Tomaso Pantera used Ford engines; the Cleveland 351ci.
I don't care who designed it as long as Toyota built it.
You are correct sir, it was a Ford in the Pantera. But the point for Onur's query was that it had a Detroit iron powerplant.
This is true regarding conventional radar from what I have read. I'm not sure about the newer laser speed clocking technology (LIDAR? ?) It looks like a fun car but they'll kick you out of PCA when they find out about it.
Supposedly even LIDAR has less effectiveness with a black car due to the light absorbing qualities. In any event I'm in the market for a Passport system. And I'll spray lots of that anti-camera goop on the license plate.
They'll kick me out of PCA for sure when I get rid of the rattley 944. There's almost always one Lotus varient at the PCA autocross events, and usually they kick a$$ over most of the Porsches. Looking forward to my chance - there's one next weekend but I don't think I'll have the car dialed in for my driving skills by then.
Very cool! I never heard of a Lotus with a Toyota drivetrain, but that sounds like the perfect combination. Does it even weigh 2,000 pounds?
Barely. I have the "Touring Package" which adds disgusting creature comforts like carpet and a sound system that can be heard over the exhaust which the purists are agast by. This car tips in just under 2000 lbs.
there is one. a buddy races a Camaro at (i think) Duke City Raceway. it's out west off I-40. Looks like a fun lotus. Nathan will be jealous, didn't he have one of those?
What I really would like to find is something like an abandoned airfield or big empty parking lot of a dunct factory to do some slower, very tight skid testing.
Yes, I believe Nathan had an Elise, although I'm pretty sure it was N/A. There were no forced-induction cars before 2006 and the ones that came later (TRD Supercharger) were badged the Exige.
Today was really the first day I was able to wring it out on the street legally. I spent 3 hours with the interlock techs (not legal for a customer to get involved but they like me)trying to figure out how to get the thing installed without freaking out the security system. At one point all 3 of us were under the car trying to trace wires. I think I have the dubious distiction of having the first Lotus in the US fitted with an interlock because there was no available information on how to do it. Such is my life these days but at least I can drive the car.
For anyone interested in driving impressions:
I like that you can drive around all day in the low RPMs without any public rucuss getting and great gas mileage but if you want ponies the boost comes on around 4K and then when the second cam kicks in at 6K it's a rocket up to the rev limiter. I think this thing will eat Corvettes and give Vipers a run for thier money.
Steering feedback is great, if not too great. The PO had competition tires on it and they go all over the place on any uneven/seemed surface. I have HP street tires on order so hopefully they'll even out that dynamic a little.
In the end I was wanting to recreate the driving experience I had in X1/9s adecades ago nd as far as I can tell this is about as close as it gets from a modern vehicle, so I'm very happy.
I've used enough bandwidth on a non-4X4 topic so I'll go away now...
