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Lotus Europa Forums => Off Topic Subjects => Topic started by: SilverBeast on Wednesday,March 16, 2022, 01:10:11 PM
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https://www.hotcars.com/classic-cars-are-a-nightmare-to-repair-and-maintain/amp/ (https://www.hotcars.com/classic-cars-are-a-nightmare-to-repair-and-maintain/amp/)
It all seemed reasonable until you get to number 5...
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Which then made me wonder about their listed down sides for all of the other cars.
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I tend to agree, Kendo. A lot of people don't know much about Europas but if you're going to write about them, you might want to spend a little time learning about your subject matter.
While you can't go down the street and pick up any random part, you can get pretty much any part you need shipped to you pretty quickly.
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https://www.hotcars.com/classic-cars-are-a-nightmare-to-repair-and-maintain/amp/ (https://www.hotcars.com/classic-cars-are-a-nightmare-to-repair-and-maintain/amp/)
It all seemed reasonable until you get to number 5...
And then you look at the photo of a twin cam Europa and directly underneath the author writes;
"For starters, the Europa is fitted with a Renault 16 engine. Lotus used the French engine to bring the car's manufacturing cost down."
At this point you have an inkling of the amount of background research and error checking....
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https://www.hotcars.com/classic-cars-are-a-nightmare-to-repair-and-maintain/amp/ (https://www.hotcars.com/classic-cars-are-a-nightmare-to-repair-and-maintain/amp/)
It all seemed reasonable until you get to number 5...
And then you look at the photo of a twin cam Europa and directly underneath the author writes;
"For starters, the Europa is fitted with a Renault 16 engine. Lotus used the French engine to bring the car's manufacturing cost down."
At this point you have an inkling of the amount of background research and error checking....
...and obviously they describe the chassis as complex, which I think is probably stretching it a bit (clever and innovative would be more accurate), and then go on to describe how the body was fitted on the S1's.
I didn't want to point it all out as once as I wanted to leave something for you all to discuss.... :)
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Mine is my first Lotus and so far every time I have to do work on it, I am surprised on how easy it is.
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It's mine too. One of the things that decided me on getting one was the fact that just about everything can be done without any particularly specialist tools. That and the wealth of knowledge freely available on the internet, particularly on this site.
And also the unpretentious camaraderie of the owners on sites like these.
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So, just how well does such a display of ignorance and hype pay?
Just like the constant "Ten-?" list the truly difficult to work on/ugly/poorly engineered, etc, vehicles never even appear on the list.
The reason why not, is simple.
The authors really know next to nothing about cars, their history only goes back so far as their own childhood, or less. They grab seemingly random tidbits from the web and mash them into a pretentiously "Authoritative" article for an equally ignorant audience.
Anyone who has experienced a Lloydvagen, BMW Isetta, Goliath, Heinkel, Dyna-Panhard, Etc. or any of numerous other post war stop-gap vehicles knows what truly bad cars look like.
Not to pick on German and French cars, they are just the worst to spring to mind at first thought.
That so many of the truly horrid cars now fetch astronomical sums only confirms the capricious and irrational nature of humanity.
I'm tempted to revisit the article only to look for a link to admonish the author.
But that would probably get me banned from the 'Web. Thought C:-)