OE Tires For The Lotus Exige
The ongoing partnership between Lotus and Yokohama Tires continues as the Lotus chose to have Yokohama ADVAN A048 tires for the high performance Lotus Exige. Yokohama tires are already the official tires on the Lotus Elise. The Lotus Exige is engineered specifically for the racetrack, where maximum grip and immediate steering response are extremely crucial. As a result, Lotus has picked Yokohamas ultra-high-performance ADVAN A048s as the tires of choice for the lightweight Lotus Exige. 聯Were pleased to be working again with Lotus and thrilled they chose Yokohama as OE on the Exige,聰 said Jeff Carpenter, Yokohama manager. 聯The ADVAN A048 is designed specifically for the Exiges racetrack-like performance. Its a super lightweight sports car that has 190 horsepower and can go 150 miles per hour. The ADVAN A048 is the ideal tire for the vehicles exceptional handling and response and brings out the best in the Exige, which has its own racing series in the United Kingdom. The ADVAN A048 is Yokohama's Street-Legal Competition tire engineered for the drivers of vehicles racing in autocross competition, track schools, lapping days and circuit-type club racing. The Yokohama A048 was developed from Yokohama racing technology for a variety of vehicles that include the 18-inch rim diameter fitments used on the Porsche 911, Porsche 911 Turbo, Porsche Boxster and others. On the inside, the ADVAN A048 is made of twin steel belts that reinforced with spirally wrapped nylon cap plies and belt edge strips. The belt package is placed on top of a rounded casing design that allows the tire to predictably handle transitions from straight-line travel to high g-force cornering and back.
Feast your eyes on what the upcoming S6 version will look like. Its Prologue Concept-like design features are further accentuated by the more aggressive front and rear bumpers. This prototype鈥檚 front spoiler is visibly more bulky, whereas the quad-pipes at the rear give the car away as a high performance model. What鈥檚 missing here is the S-specific razor-blade-like grille, as seen on the S5, and the faux-aluminum mirror caps. The new S6 is about as good as it gets within the all-new A6 range. However, if the more aggressive bumpers, bigger brakes and quad pipes don鈥檛 鈥渄o it鈥?for you, rest assured that in RS6 guise, the car will look even more muscular - it might even get wider fenders. We expect the cabin to feature a sporty flat-bottom steering wheel (S-Line) like in the new 55 TFSI version, an aluminum pedal set, sportier seats, carbon trim, special menus and various S6 badges. Other than that, drivers and occupants will get to enjoy the all-digital MMI touch response system, modern connectivity and driver assistance systems, ambient lighting and plenty more 2018-worthy goodies.
Porsche teased us with a 911 Speedster Concept in 2018 as a celebration of 鈥?0 years of Porsche Sports Cars鈥? but that was really a production-ready road car packing 368kW from its 4.0-litre flat-six. The new 911 Porsche Speedster borrows heavily from the concept, yet disappointingly loses the bonnet-mounted fuel filler cap and old-school Talbot side mirrors - no doubt due to safety requirements as well as practicality concerns. Pity, because both those features would surely have made this car even more desirable, if the Singer is anything to go by. Unlike Speedsters, with the exception of the very first 356 series, the new one is a beautiful thing to look at in any form - that鈥檚 roof up or down. There鈥檚 no more humpback-style rear end to polarise onlookers and Porsche enthusiasts alike. That鈥檚 been replaced with a double-bubble roof cover with two beautifully moulded streamliners that give it a distinctive Speedster look compared with a standard 911 Cabriolet.
As a part of Porsche Cars North America's 60th anniversary celebration, it searched high and low for the earliest examples of each U.S.-spec model. As I was perusing the list of "winners", I noticed the Cayman was based in the Bay Area. The 2006 arctic silver Cayman S belongs to Eugenie Thomas. I tracked her down and asked her some questions that I had. Eugenie was kind, energetic, and helpful. Just a quick note before the interview: The pictures of the Cayman are stock photos from Porsche. Q. How did Porsche find your Cayman for the contest? A few Porsche friends passed the Porsche request to me. I also passed it on to many, many other Porsche owners. The criteria was the last three numbers of the VIN (in order of completion). Mine was 182, which means 181 were built before mine, but not located as a legal Cayman. Q. What Porsches have you owned?
356 (which was sold to purchase a Victorian in Alameda). 914, which I shared with my (ex) husband. I showed and autocrossed that car. 912, which turned into the "bumble bee" and was raced and autocrossed and had nearly 300,000 miles on it when sold. It was a gift for my birthday, but I was too pregnant to drive it! Had to wait and agonizing! It ended up with a 911 engine and was an amazingly fun car. A second 912 which immediately had a 911 engine installed. Promptly blew up the engine on the freeway in the dark, and alone. Bigger 911 engine installed. Autocrossed intensely. Hoping to sell it very soon. All four of my children have driven both 912s at drivers schools and just around town. Q. What do you like about the Cayman? I absolutely LOVE everything about this car. It is freaking fast! Comfortable. All the bells and whistles.