Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:43 pm
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Renmure's new car.
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Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 5:46 pm
Oi.. Bog off at least till I get it home tomorrow!!
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 9:49 pm
Talk about being a teaser ...
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 10:05 pm
Imagine how disappointed I was!!! 
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 12:01 am
I saw it lol
Very nice indeed!!!
Very nice indeed!!!
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:59 pm
Steve.
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 9:59 pm
lol. Nothing overly "Lotus-ish" and I have just driven back from Birmingham and stuck it in the garage.
It is a 6 litre LS Engined Ultima GTR. Fancied one for a while and enquired about a few over the years but never felt confident enough to take it any further. Difference this time is that it was a well known and well regarded car in Ultima-land. Previously owned by 4 folk on PH who all sang its praises by PM as did the Ultima factory (unusually for a non-factory car apparently).
Current owner was a dream to deal with and is a professional test driver with Aston and Jaguar and spends his days at work doing high performance evaluations and prototype testing. Bonus was that he has owned almost every variant of Lotus so was able to answer all my dumb questions in realitive terms I could associate with and put some perspective to the big numbers. He took me for a very memorable wee test drive in it this morning.
Essentially feels like a big S1 Exige, will get to 60 mph is about 3 secs and weighs 1060kg with fluids. Performance appears more than adequate and no doubt it can get me to Tescos very quickly indeed.. which won't be much use unless I am intending to buy a toothbrush or a small bag of crisps. In reality the performance is way beyond anything I will explore, I just thought they looked cool and was fairly safe money. Takes all sorts
Edit to add: It has been on track with a couple of the owners inc the last one, and has been to Le Mans a couple of times and driven in the Le Mans Classic. Will I take it on track... dunno, so many plans to do "stuff" like that, so much other "stuff" to do. Hey ho...
It is a 6 litre LS Engined Ultima GTR. Fancied one for a while and enquired about a few over the years but never felt confident enough to take it any further. Difference this time is that it was a well known and well regarded car in Ultima-land. Previously owned by 4 folk on PH who all sang its praises by PM as did the Ultima factory (unusually for a non-factory car apparently).
Current owner was a dream to deal with and is a professional test driver with Aston and Jaguar and spends his days at work doing high performance evaluations and prototype testing. Bonus was that he has owned almost every variant of Lotus so was able to answer all my dumb questions in realitive terms I could associate with and put some perspective to the big numbers. He took me for a very memorable wee test drive in it this morning.
Essentially feels like a big S1 Exige, will get to 60 mph is about 3 secs and weighs 1060kg with fluids. Performance appears more than adequate and no doubt it can get me to Tescos very quickly indeed.. which won't be much use unless I am intending to buy a toothbrush or a small bag of crisps. In reality the performance is way beyond anything I will explore, I just thought they looked cool and was fairly safe money. Takes all sorts
Edit to add: It has been on track with a couple of the owners inc the last one, and has been to Le Mans a couple of times and driven in the Le Mans Classic. Will I take it on track... dunno, so many plans to do "stuff" like that, so much other "stuff" to do. Hey ho...
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:05 pm
An unusual choice if you don't track it, in fact you NEEEED to track it.
Looks
Looks
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:42 pm
Lovely, if a little crazy
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 10:43 pm
Mmmmm....amazing cars...done a fair bit of reading on them myself and sound like they must be great fun!
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 11:52 pm
That's going to raise a few eyebrows at Tesco, Jim.
Hats off to you!
Hats off to you!
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:06 am
Will i see this one parked up outside Pets at Home?
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:15 am
Haha.. Perhaps!!
I have collected a dozen bags of frozen tripe in the Ferrari from the pets shop before so it is a possibility, although having a boot did help
I have collected a dozen bags of frozen tripe in the Ferrari from the pets shop before so it is a possibility, although having a boot did help
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 6:32 am
Frozen tripe in Ultima is a no no. Imagine if it were to thaw when the car inevitably breaks down. You would have to sell the car ...
... to someone with a cold
... to someone with a cold
Re: Renmure's new car.
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:01 am
Love that colour combo, what a cool run about!