Recent content by m1980k

The road from Pickering to Whitby is a great one, as is the road that goes north across the Moors from Hutton-le-Hole.

You can say that about a lot of cars. There are hatchbacks with 400bhp now that are faster than supercars from previous decades. But a low, mid-engined sports car with a stiff chassis is going to be much more fun than an RS3!

Mine are 3 and 5, so figured I had to get one while they'll fit. I also sit with my seat quite far forward. There's a good 4 inches between my seat back and the base behind!

Haven't driven an Elise S1, but as I understand it, the Evora is miles more refined, but obviously larger and not as light footed. For me, a great 2 car garage would be an Elise Cup 250 and a QPV GTS 4.7 - I think that would cover plenty of bases.

When I travel for work, I chuck some bits in a suitcase and arrive at the airport an hour before take off. With the family... packing is a multi-day project and involves extensive use of the luggage scales to stay within baggage allowances. The Evora has this wide, not massively deep boot behind...

After waiting all year for the right car to come along, I picked up a 2012 Lotus Evora S on Monday. If I was going to swap the GS for something, I wanted it to be a very different car, but still ideally one I could occasionally get the kids in the back of. And it had to be good on twisty, bumpy...

The GS is a different kind of car with a different kind of power delivery - take it to a twisty road, keep the revs above 4k and then tell me it feels slow...

Yeah, I actually listen to 6 music and do miss the days when Harris wrote for Evo. Perhaps it's not quite as good as it was at its best, bit there's still plenty to enjoy, with Vivian and Barker and Meaden still there. They screwed up ecoty, but I think it's better now that Nick Trott has gone -...

Growing tired of Evo is like growing tired of Radio 1 - it means you're old. The mag tells you what new cars are like to drive at or near the limit. And to anyone who says that's not something you can ever do: get on track or get up early on a Sunday morning. Or stay at home listening to...

If that screen stops working Maserati will charge £7k for a replacement and then someone on the forum will discover that it's made of eight Fiat 500 sat nav screens stuck together.

Welcome to GS ownership. When my battery was on the way out the car would throw all kinds of wobblies until the day it was almost flat and I got the click click click. New battery and everything worked fine.

Let’s have some balance, please. The GS is not the very best handling car ever made, but it’s also not some pig that handles like ****. We all know that it’s sensitive to setup – when I bought my car it turned out that the ride height was higher on one side and it was wearing old tyres. Ride...

A few good tracks on Dig Your Own Hole by The Chemical Brothers, as well as Diesel Power by the Prodigy. My dad had a classical recording with cannon fire in it. Liked to shock people by slipping that on and cranking up the volume...

Sound engineers and audiophiles have been in disagreement since the beginning of time (or at least the advent of recorded sound)...

Equipment from different manufacturers does have a different sound and it's all down to personal taste. You have to try different things. It also helps if you don't listen to equipment that's better than yours! I sold all my hi fi separates years ago and now I'm happy with the Sony soundbar and...