Used Car of the Day: 2011 Lotus Evora S

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Hey, wanna buy a Lotus?


This 2011 Lotus Evora S with 51,000 miles and a manual transmission might be your speed.

The car appears to be well-maintained and the seller says it's "well-sorted".

Mods include a carbon-fiber louvered rear window, carbon fiber sail panel, a GT4-style wing, modified tail lights, Alcantara steering wheel, rear subwoofers, front tweeters, and Recaro seats. The intake, exhaust, clutch, flywheel, and shifter are all modded.

The brakes are also upgraded -- and there's even more I am not listing here for the sake of brevity.

Some of the downsides include flawed paint and some cosmetic issues on the inside and undercarriage.

Click here to see this Wisconsin-based car -- note the Road America license plate, I approve -- that has an ask of $55,000.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • Tassos There should be ban on any further ev innovation. Research and development should be limited to internal combustion powertrains only.
  • Kjhkjlhkjhkljh kljhjkhjklhkjh since most drivers text and drive and kill people all the time ... good. do it. enforce it and make it a inspection point and fine anyone disabling it 5000$, then revoke the license on any additional offenses.
  • Tassos There is too much damned Democracy in the United States. In my home country, there was one party. Voting was simple and everyone got along fine. We need more of that in the USA.
  • Whynotaztec Don’t we buy too much Chinese stuff already? I mean, the US and China are actively preparing for war with each other.
  • Ajla Roughly 0% change of winning the emission regulation suit against the EPA. The only reason I can think they are trying it is to see if the court grants the states any workarounds. I wouldn't be surprised if they won the SEC suit though.
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