TomE

Yes, it's every third Sunday of the month. I usually post about it a week before each one but the details are the same.

It was launched at the Garden Party yesterday, so I expect it will be available to order in the next week or so. It's two volumes and weighs 5kg!

Time for another Sunday breakfast gathering for some of the finest bacon rolls around. This is our regular third Sunday of the month event, a chance to gather with like-minded enthusiasts and a cross section of Lotus models. Everyone welcome and we look forward to attendees from The Lotus Forums, SELOC, Lotus Drivers Club and Club Lotus. An informal gathering with no particular runs in or out organised, just a chance to chat, look at cars and take in the view. Join from 9.00 when the café opens for bacon rolls. We'll probably be around until 10.00/10.30. Location map for Newlands Corner here

Thanks for the copies of the sheets. The one only covering LHD cars is the one I'd found. The list of UK cars from Simon on Facebook is what he'd sent me when I was looking - there are gaps and old info in it. A shame that the recovered UK file is prior to people making updates. The risk with making a shared doc editable is something gets deleted and it's hard to roll back. I'll bring these sources together with my other info from forum trawling and then maybe we can have a collaborative effort to get it up to date. Bear with me while I get through a couple of hectic work weeks before I can tackle it.

Time for another Sunday breakfast gathering for some of the finest bacon rolls around. This is our regular third Sunday of the month event, a chance to gather with like-minded enthusiasts and a cross section of Lotus models. Everyone welcome and we look forward to attendees from The Lotus Forums, SELOC, Lotus Drivers Club and Club Lotus. An informal gathering with no particular runs in or out organised, just a chance to chat, look at cars and take in the view. Join from 9.00 when the café opens for bacon rolls. We'll probably be around until 10.00/10.30. Location map for Newlands Corner here

I've got a cobbled together list of UK cars from the post earlier in this thread and some sleuthing - put together when I was trying to track down a car for sale. I was also sent a list by someone on one of the Evora Facebook groups but I think it's incomplete. I saw someone had a spreadsheet on a shared Google drive once, with owner self-reported info on more detailed specs such as seat variant and diffuser type. The version I've seen appeared to be mainly non-UK cars. I haven't got time right now but in a few weeks time could pull what I've got into a single document and share it for people to validate, if that's of interest. You'll probably all have to sign some kind of GDPR waiver!

I'll be there 👍

I believe you need to connect your phone at least once by physical cable, then wireless CarPlay should work fine after that.

Oh yes! My Sunday car runs group was cancelled last weekend but I went anyway and did the route solo. 150 cross-country miles on mostly empty roads. The car is a joy to drive and sounds epic.

A few pictures of my new toy

Time for another Sunday breakfast gathering for some of the finest bacon rolls around. This is our regular third Sunday of the month event, a chance to gather with like-minded enthusiasts and a cross section of Lotus models. Everyone welcome and we look forward to attendees from The Lotus Forums, SELOC, Lotus Drivers Club and Club Lotus. An informal gathering with no particular runs in or out organised, just a chance to chat, look at cars and take in the view. Join from 9.00 when the café opens for bacon rolls. We'll probably be around until 10.00/10.30. Location map for Newlands Corner here

Yes that's me. I'm still tracking down a new gearbox or internal parts. I need to do some more phoning round now I'm back from a month of business travel (and not just go out driving the GT430 all weekend!).

Yes. It was a special commission by Scott Walker and a premium paint. Majority of them were built to customer order, apart from the factory cars used for the launch. Some have been mentioned in Facebook groups rather than PH or AT. I posted in a couple of places that I was looking for one and was approached by a few people. Dealers know of a couple potentially available if there’s interest.

If anyone else is looking for a GT430, I know about one for sale in the UK and one in Italy.

I did back to back test drives in December of Evora S, GT410 Sport, GT430 and Emira Touring and Sports. As a result of that I postponed my Emira deposit to wait for Base Edition info to be published or the rumoured GT. And started a hunt for a GT430 which got me to today. It’s an amazing car, I’ll write up some thoughts and comparisons after a few more miles.