Peoples’ reaction to your Evora

[Cdm2018]

Just done my step son prom evening at Brooksby Hall 

as we lined up to hall entrance there was usual a array of limos and a Lamborghini plus the couple of vintage cars and off tractor (this is rural leics ) 

the gathering of a hundred parents & family greeting their pride  and joy to take the pictures for family album.

as I dropped off I had my young daughter and step son girlfriend (in full party dress) in the back . The amazed looks as I off loaded the party out of the Evora and then the event photographer telling people to move out of way so he can snap pictures was a sight !

i drove away as the crowds all strained the gazes by which time they failed to notice the loud Lambo had arrived 😀

[Bob Booker]

Took my car on the ferry for a tour of the Black Forest. The car drew a lot of attention. Several people asked whether they could have a photo of the car.

I had to leave it on the street in Freiburg one night. I went to the car to get something, to find half a dozen people taking it in turns to pose with the car having their photos taken. I hung back until they went.

Best one was taking a diversion to see the World's biggest Cuckoo clock (who wouldn't want to see that?). I parked up, then a club arrived of 6 or 7 911's.
This Italian couple took a look at my car and the husband got his wife to take a pic of him posing with it. After several photos, she gestured for him to stand next to the 911's for a photo.
He gave her an unenthusiastic shake of the head. An Italian NAAAH, is all I can think it looked like. 😎👍
 

[Cdm2018]

I had attended a local car festival last weekend in small Leicestershire town of Hinckley (where Triumph & Nobel are made )

there was apparently 1200 or so cars and bikes and other vehicles on display in town centre, my Evora was parked on on of the main shopping streets next to vintage Land Rover defender and a heavily modified Subaru 

it was lovely day so I stood next to car as thousands of visitors filed by 

the reaction of folk was intriguing people didn’t realise I was owner so I over heard the comments 

also folk were surprised to see my daughter asleep in the back as they envisaged the car as a two seater ! Lol

but the comments were fascinating and I got to featured on a you tube showing I spotted today ! My 10 sec of fame  😜

[Spinney]

I had an unusual reaction today whilst driving up the M3. I was in lane 3 approaching what looked to be an interesting car ahead and as I drew nearer I saw it was a BMW i8 that had a kind of red chrome paint job. Rather a nice colour actually. 

Anyhow, he obviously saw me approaching in his mirror and suddenly decided to wrench the wheel over to the left, only just missing the front of a car he was overtaking. I then pulled alongside him and became aware the driver was waving excitedly. I looked over and he kept pointing at my car and giving me a big thumbs up, all the time with the biggest grin on his face that you could imagine. He kept this up for the next mile or so, to the point where he was becoming embarrassing. I simply smiled back before accelerating and pulling in front of him and eventually filtering off the motorway. He then overtook and drew back alongside as I left the motorway and we exchanged a final wave. 

Nice to think even a driver of an electric car can still appreciate a nice exhaust note. 😁

[phil flash]

I was refueling my Evora at a Shell filling station this morning and a bright purple metalflake BMW M8 with really aggressive styling and aero' add-ons pulled up to refill.  M8 had German plates and a 6ft 6" man mountain with really aggressive styling got out. Black leather trousers, a black string vest style shirt, pecs and biceps covered in tattoos that were bigger than my thighs, gold bangles  and his hair tied up in a bun at the back ... looked like a cage fighter and certainly not to be messed with.

Paid for my fuel with him waiting behind me and I returned to my car, fired up and was set to drive away but 'man mountain' was now walking straight at me deliberately in the way.  Shall we say I was 'a little concerned'  ...

He came round to the passenger side, squatted down and looked through the window smiling (thank heavens!), gave me a thumbs up and said "Zat is the most booootiful car I have seen in a long time". I smiled back and said 'Thanks' and blipped the throttle and got two thumbs up and a big smile. He waved as I drove away with my own  big smile,  get a few nice comments from time to time but if there is anybody I'd like on 'My Friends' list it has to be that guy ..

[au-yt]

Heading out to Coffee in my 400 I spotted a R8 AUDI coming towards me, I was surprised how far around the drivers head can swivel as I went past. I love my Evora 

[mayevora]

At traffic lights today. Young lad sitting in his £300 exhaust pipe pulls up next to me, winds window down and says “is that a kit car?”

 

[Bruss]

Love it. 🤣

[bennyT]

On 08/11/2019 at 17:22, mayevora said:

At traffic lights today. Young lad sitting in his £300 exhaust pipe pulls up next to me, winds window down and says “is that a kit car?”

 

Love it

A young lad asked me if my Evora was a Porsche a few months back! 

[Bozzie]

First day I got mine I had been out for a good drive, lots of look and sideways glances but as I was nearing home, there was a mid 20’s, blonde and really good looking. She was looking straight at me with her thumb up. As cool as possible I nodded back to her only seconds after I noticed a double decker bus filling my rear view mirror.  I check now before making a dick of myself over again!!!

[LotusLeftLotusRight]

Sort of related to this thread.

I was out in my Evora GTE on Saturday morning, taking an A to A drive along some favourite local country roads. I had to stop to allow a car in front to turn right into a farm entrance and as I waited a pair of motorcycles pulled up behind me. One was a sports bike, the other one of those Triumph Harley Davidson type things. This particular road is very popular locally with motorbike and car enthusiasts.

After the car had completed the turn, the two motorcycles immediately gave it the beans and overtook me. No problem I thought, they’ll race off into the distance and I can carry on at my own steady but brisk pace. Not so. There was a sequence of first tight and then sweeping bends 1/2 a mile ahead and before I knew it I had caught up with them again and I had to back off and slow down. I am not saying they were trying to be Marc Marquez, but they were using most of the road to try and straighten out the bends, whereas I was just comfortably holding station in the centre of the lane.

To be honest I was really quite surprised at how slow they had to ride to get through the bends. I didn’t want to overtake them back again and make them think I was just some arse trying to race, so I just backed off completely and let them go.

In conclusion, a motorbike is great for going in a straight line, but a Lotus is better for bends.

[electro_boy]

Just had my lovely Evora delivered back to me by ES Motorsports after they gave it a big pampering session.  As the car was being taken off the trailer I heard a kid from across the road saying "OMG what is that!".  I could see he was interested so I gave him a little nod to say is was cool if he wanted a closer look.  He seemed quite surprised at first, I guess not that many people welcome you to check their car out?

He made his mum cross the main road to get closer and then he approached me and the car to get a proper look.  I had a very quick chat with the kid, he didn't know what it was but it looked "well cool" and then he got ushered off by his mum, as he was walking away his head was fixed on the Evora! 😊  

[rallyesax]

Good job trying to get the Mum 😁

[Bruss]

@electro_boy

 

pics?

 

(The mum obviously, I know what an Evora looks like)

[Phil S1]

I generally find my Sports Racer quite stealthy, not attracting much attention at all really. But a couple of weeks back I was virtually home from an early morning blat with the MLOC crowd when I pulled up at a junction and could see a family out of the corner of my eye. As I set off the young lad very excitedly shouted 'Lamborghini, Lamborghini!!!' 🥴

[mayevora]

I parked the Evora up on Sunday for a leg stretch in a German Autobahn Service station for 15 mins. A chap arrived 2 mins after me in his Porsche (And a very nice one Identical to picture) and parked up 3 spaces away from me and we both sort exchanged an appreciative nod. 
Another 2 minutes later a large coach pulled into the service station and I could see loads of kids pressing their noses on the windows looking at the cars. The coach stopped and parked up further into the Services. As soon as the door opened 7 kids ran over to the Evora and started posing next to it as other kids took pictures of them and the car. I asked them if they wanted to sit in it and have pictures taken and their grins widened and didn't hesitate. It really was like bees round a honeypot - BUT all this time I could see the Porsche driver getting really pissed off as his girlfriend was doubled up in laughter as his Porker didn’t even get a glance let alone a photo.

Ive not had this before but thought it was hilarious.

[C8RKH]

Nice story and I'm sure you loved every minute of it.  The Porsche to me is just like an Audi RS 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 whatever or a BMW M1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 whatever (we can say what we want about German car manufacturers but they are imaginative with their naming conventions at least) it is just annonymous. Well made. Great. Does the job of getting you from A to B fast etc. But does nothing for your soul.

I'd still have a 911 GT3 (RS or not) in a heart beat, as the motorsport heritage and love that goes into those cars is special), but a bog standard 911 is like a choice between any number of fast, solid, with nice plastic, anodyne German "samey" cars. But I'm the exception as it seems most of the UK population find these types of cars aspirational.

Anyway, check out Instagram @mayevora as you may see your car on the kids posts! 

[TdM]

Seems that a large percentage of kids think the Evora is a Lamborghini, it's the first thing I heard when I stepped out of mine having bought it home on the first day of ownership and I've heard it a few times since!

 

I'm not complaining...

[electro_boy]

Haha fantastic to see an Evora can out do a Porsche with a lairy paint job and big wing! 

I've also had my car confused for a Lambo a couple times by youngsters.

 

[Bibs]

Me educating some kids!! 1.26, vid should start at the right spot!

 

[jerzybondov]

On 09/03/2020 at 11:05, LotusLeftLotusRight said:

Sort of related to this thread.

I was out in my Evora GTE on Saturday morning, taking an A to A drive along some favourite local country roads. I had to stop to allow a car in front to turn right into a farm entrance and as I waited a pair of motorcycles pulled up behind me. One was a sports bike, the other one of those Triumph Harley Davidson type things. This particular road is very popular locally with motorbike and car enthusiasts.

After the car had completed the turn, the two motorcycles immediately gave it the beans and overtook me. No problem I thought, they’ll race off into the distance and I can carry on at my own steady but brisk pace. Not so. There was a sequence of first tight and then sweeping bends 1/2 a mile ahead and before I knew it I had caught up with them again and I had to back off and slow down. I am not saying they were trying to be Marc Marquez, but they were using most of the road to try and straighten out the bends, whereas I was just comfortably holding station in the centre of the lane.

To be honest I was really quite surprised at how slow they had to ride to get through the bends. I didn’t want to overtake them back again and make them think I was just some arse trying to race, so I just backed off completely and let them go.

In conclusion, a motorbike is great for going in a straight line, but a Lotus is better for bends.

As well as loving my car I do also love my bikes (got two Fireblades - see pics) so can comment on this - the sports bike would have been riding to the Cruiser/Bobber’s speed (which would be particularly slow round corners) but in any case, motorbikes *feel* fast round corners, but ultimately can’t go anything like as quick as a car round them.

Especially on the public road where you don’t often have clean lines of sight. You’ve only got a tyre contact patch the size of a credit card and up to 200bhp to put through it. Any gravel, mud, leaves, grates, oil on the road spell disaster - you can only ride to what you can see and the margins for error are much, much finer.

And on track the amount of rubber a car can put down means lap times will be quicker even in an average sports car than a superbike due to the higher cornering speeds.

Saw a vid on YouTube recently comparing Moto GP vs F1 round Mugello - the bike was quicker down the straight (!) but as soon as the corners started the combo of downforce and rubber means the F1 just streaks off. 

Meanwhile, just so I don’t go completely OT! Was driving past a group of 12 year old kids by the park the other day and one of the girls shouted at me ‘that’s a really nice car!’

i just about managed to shout ‘thanks!’ 

I’ve never had that happen in my 911

 

 

[DBG]

When pulling out of the childcare center with my daughter this week, a guy had his wife stop the car on the side of the road and he ran across in front of me with his phone up asking if he could take a photo. He said LOTUS, cool I thought it was a Ferrari. What’s she got, a V12? 

[JimH]

Hermes delivery guy asked if mine was "that new all-electric/hybrid Lotus hyper-thing" yesterday...... 🤣

[mayevora]

On 17/09/2020 at 09:06, C8RKH said:

 But I'm the exception as it seems most of the UK population find these types of cars 

No. You are not the only one - I’m with you all the way here. I’ve always thought/described all Audi’s BMW’s Porsche’s as the pinnacle of average-ness.

[IDEngineer]

On a recent midday drive I had TWO separate people lead with the question "What does that retail for?" Exact same wording, which seemed almost scripted. Maybe that's just a standard thing.

The more entertaining of the two was a guy, one of four in a beat up pickup truck, that looked and dressed like a farmhand. Yet he asked me that question at a traffic light, replied with "That is a VERY clean car, dude!", and as they turned left he gave me the "hang loose" hand signal. Totally out of character with his appearance. But you could tell he really appreciated the Lotus! No surprise, everyone does.