Exige paddle shift

Post by **campbell** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:05 pm

Isn't the Exige and Evora engine also Camry heritage? What's not to like about rock solid reliability

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:31 pm

Post by **campbell** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:38 pm

I fairness to Mark, he has a smiley in his post about the Camry DNA

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 6:52 pm

Yes, tongue firmly in cheek

. If it helps Lotus sell more cars, especially overseas, all well and good. Why didn't they call it Exige IPS though?

GraemeLotus · Post by **GraemeLotus** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:11 pm

ryallm wrote:Yes, tongue firmly in cheek . If it helps Lotus sell more cars, especially overseas, all well and good. Why didn't they call it Exige IPS though?

All of our automatics are now "automatics"

j2 lot · Post by **j2 lot** » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:07 pm

Does that clear the decks ready for a future DCS/ IPS / zipedee doo dah version in addition to the automatic ??

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 8:26 am

Review in PH: http://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-brit ... view/31582 In summary: it is still a rather dim-witted slushbox unsuited to the car, but it was the only option available to Lotus, it will probably sell, and of course the car is still very quick.

BigD · Post by **BigD** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:42 am

Actually looks and sounds pretty good in the videos in that review.

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:43 am

Hard to form any kind of accurate opinion from a youtube video but the downshifts look and sound OK with the obligatory throttle blipping, the upshifts appear to take an eternity. In a 1980's Ford Granada 3 Speed slushbox kind of way.

Who in their right mind would contemplate this over a PDK equipped Cayman GTS is beyond me but if it shifts a few more cars in some overseas markets and generates a bit more profit for the company then who are we to judge ?

Regards,

Jeremy

Post by **campbell** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:04 pm

I'm guessing that's the plan, Jeremy.

And I imagine future evolutions of all Lotuses will feature modern flappy paddles as model development allows.

We have to remember that Lotus use "customer engines" and so have different model development constraints to, oh, say, Porsche.

Plus theirs are made in Norfolk from Turnips, not in Germany from Kryptonite

Kelvin · Post by **Kelvin** » Fri Feb 06, 2015 1:41 pm

As I understand it half of all the Evoras sold abroad are IPS. I've driven one and it's a fairly sluggish affair on the up change although not so bad on changing down.

That said, the manual gearchange is hardly rifle bolt snickety snick. It's one area Lotus really need to improve on across the range.

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