Yahoo Autos Lotus Has Yet Another Variant of the Evora
I love the Lotus Evora. Last year at our Performance Car of the Year competition, I voted for the Evora 400 to take home our top honors. The lightweight Lotus looked great and drove even better. It was the perfect size and was exciting whether you were going 25 or 125 mph. I was smitten. The Evora didn't win, but it ended up second in the competition, a great showing for a car manufacturer many have left for dead at various times over the last six decades.
Since then, Lotus introduced the Evora Sport 410, a lighter, more hardcore version of the car that I figured would be even better. While we haven't driven it, it sounds like it's great. Whoda thunk it?
That means that this newest Evora, the GT430, must be phenomenal.
Limited to just 60 units worldwide, the GT430 is the most powerful Lotus road car ever and weighs in just less than 2800 pounds, nearly 300 pounds less than the already light Evora 400 and 57 pounds lighter than the Sport 410. That's thanks to a number of carbon fiber parts, like the front and rear bumpers. It's the lightest Evora ever.
The GT430 gets to 60 in 3.7 seconds and hits a top speed of 190 mph, and would likely be quicker and faster if it were missing the giant dining room table of a rear wing out back. That wing, along with aero up front and some creative trickery with directing the air, means that the GT430 produces 550 pounds of downforce at its top speed. But it matches the Evora 410's maximum of 140 pounds at just 90 mph.
It also has bigger wheels that are wrapped in Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires. The suspension is a Lotus-tuned Ohlins TTX two-way adjustable dampers and Eibach springs. It's 22 pounds lighter than the suspension in the Evora Sport 410. There's a variable traction control five five pre-sets. It also has lightweight AP Racing brakes and forged aluminum wheels.
The additional power, downforce, weight savings, and grip adds up to a car that's as quick around Lotus's Hethel test track as the lightweight, trackday special 3-Eleven.
While this exact GT430 will not be available for North America, the good news is that a version of the car for the US will be coming in spring 2018. Now I just need to figure out how to get my hands on one.
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