I’ve always had time for the EVO guys, who tend to write as they see. They’ve had criticism in the past for being porsche fans as year after year the GT3 variants step up and take the CoTY crowns. So breaking my normal practice of start-at-page-one-and read-cover-to-cover, I dived straight in today to read the Exige S group test with some trepidation, because, like all of us I want EVO to enjoy the new Exige and give it an unbiased nod.
I’ve just put the magazine down and now have mixed feelings.
The summary is they love the car, it mixed well with cars twice its price, eventually out-gunned by BMW M3 GTS, and the Porsche GT3 RS 4.0, but comes away as what they describe ‘the moral victor’.
So far so good.
Where I started to doubt how unbiased and objective the article is, was in the text of the final line, which reads “Now please go open your wallets and fight the good fight… Lotus needs you”
While I share the sentiments, I would have hoped pure unbiased description and opinion alone would be good enough influence. That EVO editorial found necessary to write a clumsy plug takes the shine off for me, of what was otherwise a fine, well-written article, which clearly extols the virtues of a very capable car.
From my own experience, there is absolutely no reason not to go and buy a new Lotus. It’s about time the uk motoring press realised this (and with other british sports cars) instead of continually giving the nod to european stuff that costs a fortune to buy and run, and in the case of german stuff is boring as hell.
If the press and assorted forums keep spouting crap about Lotus not building cars, people will believe it and keep looking elsewhere
