F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

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F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by smoo25 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 12:19 am

Saw 3 of these over on Skye last week. Were cool to see even if not really my thing
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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by Dominic » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:05 am

Wonder if I did a vinyl wrap on the elise, the same as that, how much attention it would get. :roll:
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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by smoo25 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:05 am

Dominic wrote:Wonder if I did a vinyl wrap on the elise, the same as that, how much attention it would get. :roll:
Only one way to find out...
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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by H8OAG » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:12 pm

Dominic wrote:Wonder if I did a vinyl wrap on the elise, the same as that, how much attention it would get. :roll:
It would be an improvement on your Martini stripes!

8)

About time we did lunch again......

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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by Dominic » Thu Oct 15, 2015 1:43 pm

H8OAG wrote:
Dominic wrote:Wonder if I did a vinyl wrap on the elise, the same as that, how much attention it would get. :roll:
It would be an improvement on your Martini stripes!

8)

About time we did lunch again......

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Stripes are gone! :roll:

Lunch sounds good. :thumbsup
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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by kerryxeg » Thu Oct 15, 2015 3:41 pm

That must be the standard JLR wallpaper. We saw the whole fleet FPace discos and range rovers over in Grossglockner Austria doing towing tests with from what I could see looked like trailer loads of steel. They also had one that stayed covered only to come out when the road closed to the public. From the shape it could have been a mule related to the next Defender, but not much to go on. Certainly nice to see lots of testing done rather than the old approach of letting the public do it.

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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by kenny » Thu Oct 15, 2015 8:21 pm

smoo25 wrote:
Dominic wrote:Wonder if I did a vinyl wrap on the elise, the same as that, how much attention it would get. :roll:
Only one way to find out...
"Haw mate. get a load eh this, some nugget has wrapped his ess wan shed in camo vinyl hoping we think it's a prototype on secret testin, whit a tadger!"

You should defo do it, I'll contribute a tenner to the fund. :mrgreen: :thumbsup

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Post by Dominic » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:02 pm

kenny wrote:
smoo25 wrote:
Dominic wrote:Wonder if I did a vinyl wrap on the elise, the same as that, how much attention it would get. :roll:
Only one way to find out...
"Haw mate. get a load eh this, some nugget has wrapped his ess wan shed in camo vinyl hoping we think it's a prototype on secret testin, whit a tadger!"

You should defo do it, I'll contribute a tenner to the fund. :mrgreen: :thumbsup
Well, as you put it like that, would you be available to supervise the fitting of it? :blackeye
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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by Bobby » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:29 pm

I'd also always been tempted when seeing the psychedelic wraps they use. Might make my new Toxic Green one less conspicuous anyway!
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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by kenny » Thu Oct 15, 2015 9:41 pm

Dominic wrote:Well, as you put it like that, would you be available to supervise the fitting of it? :blackeye
:thumbsup I can do lots of standing about and shrugging of shoulders.

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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by smoo25 » Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:15 pm

kenny wrote:
smoo25 wrote:
Dominic wrote:Wonder if I did a vinyl wrap on the elise, the same as that, how much attention it would get. :roll:
Only one way to find out...
"Haw mate. get a load eh this, some nugget has wrapped his ess wan shed in camo vinyl hoping we think it's a prototype on secret testin, whit a tadger!"

You should defo do it, I'll contribute a tenner to the fund. :mrgreen: :thumbsup
I'll chip in a tenner too...
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Re: F-Pace seen oot n aboot testing on Skye

Post by Corranga » Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:48 am

Bobby wrote:I'd also always been tempted when seeing the psychedelic wraps they use. Might make my new Toxic Green one less conspicuous anyway!
I think you're on to something. Why stop at black and white, why not stick with the toxic green and use SE blue from the website header as the 2nd colour on your psychedelic wrap? ;)

If you did wrap an S1 like that, you'd also have to fit a strange exhaust, maybe exiting through the diffuser and refit the clams with odd panel gaps. Kknowing the way Lotus work, you probably will end up on the front of a car mag with the headline "is this the new Lotus Elise" and a story explaining that it's a development mule testing out a new engine.
Emphasise this further by fitting a rear Elige clam, and anything from the Reverie catalogue.
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