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The Evora is hands down the best driving and handling car I've ever driven. How it deals with our roads defies physics. It also smelled of glue and had a horrid gearbox (I believe the latter has been sorted now). I bloody loved it... However I didn't buy one because I'd just sold my Elise that seemed to be on a mission to disassemble itself every time I drove it. I had so much bother with it I just got rid and bought the Cayman. The flipside of this of course is my brother's Elise that he's had from new and never breaks. Also if you're a big fat bastard like me, getting in and out of it isn't fun.
Others may be more hardcore than me when it comes to booting a mid-engined car around a wet corner, of course.
I was just hoping to add that the post 2015 Evora are a lot "nicer" - the sills aren't a metre wide, the interior isn't awful, and the gear shift is quite decent. The Alpine is a lot more polished though, which will suit some and not others.
Sporks, keep this info coming please - I think the Alpine looks like an ace car, so really interested on this odyssey. Wheels - for me, bigger almost always looks best. I'd live with the impact on ride.
We are on the brink of getting a Cayman, just want to find out more info on what Porsche are doing with production and models before we go ahead. I hear the S is discontinued.
The Alpine didn't have the same steering wiggliness as the Lotus - in the Evora it was as if you could feel every bit of grain in the tarmac - but it certainly wasn't numb. I think it was about the balance; the Evora is more like I imagine a racing car must be like - loud, sharp, loads of feedback, and very mechanical sounding (I'd swear at low speeds I could hear the gear teeth engaging). The Alpine felt a little more like a GT in that respect - it felt lighter, skimming the road where the Evora felt like it was digging into it, still a pretty good gurgly wooshy noise when you push it. Both were fantastic, but I think I'll get more out of a car with just a bit more "sophistication".
There are a lot of little things which aren't exactly important, but do add up - keyless entry and drive, an electronic handbrake that works perfectly, automatic wipers and headlights, better sat nav. And the interior was nicer. For all that you can very legitimately argue that these aren't what a sports car is about, they do make it more usable more of the time.
Mostly though it was that it was involving but not hard to drive (unlike the Morgan), it was slightly happier trundling around at 30, and - quite importantly - it felt faster and more exciting at a 70mph cruise than the Evora did. All for a couple of grand less than a 2-3 year old Evora.
Also the build time (9 months, think I've mentioned that) lines up nicely with other plans.
I think the romance of a sports car that is almost a track car, like the Lotus, falls away after a few days of driving one, when you realise that its not comfortable around town, noisy on the motorway, and gives you a numb arse on any journey of substance! Sad, but true. Same reason I held back from the urge to buy a VX200 Turbo. V tempting, but I bet it would have been sold relatively quickly.
Looked at an A110 1300 in the early eighties. Passed on it as I really wanted the 1600. And I couldn't afford the £3k asking price either. Bought an Alfa Spider instead which I still have. Only cost £1.5k. Think the Alpine would be worth a hell of a lot more then my Spider now.
Yep. I've got this sometimes pressing notion of having an older sports car, nothing really expensive, but something like a VX sitting on the drive, for a ponce around it. The reality I am sure is less glitzy. I also have a hankering for a Fiat Coupe Turbo. 20 odd years ago, I had Bravo HGT, which had the same 20V engine in it, minus the turbo. It made a great noise, and did go a bit too. Rattled like hell, but it was good fun. I remember driving it over the middle of a roundabout in Sheffield, cos I (stupidly) came at it too quickly.....
Once we had a child, it soon went. Swapped it for a sensible 318 touring. Get all the baby stuff In you see...lol
I also wanted a TR7, but thankfully saw the light (and not through the gaping holes in the body work, boom!)
Seriously, four Fuchs ache.
I didn't spend very much money on the registration. It was cheaper than the heated seats.