The Europa struggled when new; now it's a rare, fast Lotus that drives brilliantly - if you can find one 👀
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Europa servicing is on a 12-month/9,000-mile basis. Official service dealers like Bell & Colvill in Guildford offer a choice of fixed price servicing or service plans but there aren’t that many of these service dealers in the UK. It’s hard to tell the exact number from the Lotus website, but it’s in single figures. This thin geographical coverage might saddle some owners with higher travel costs in order to ‘stay official’.
As far as we know, the mechanical limited slip diff that was offered as an option on 2006-on Elise S2s was never added to the Europa options list, but if any car could manage perfectly well without an LSD it was this one. Lotus didn’t deem it necessary to fit an LSD as standard equipment on any production car before the Evora 400. Europa braking was powerful.
The wobbly-edge headlamp units do date the car somewhat. These lights are no longer available from Lotus or its dealer network, but the elliptical driving lamps are.Lotus was keen to pitch the Europa as a grand tourer. Relative to the Elise or the Exige its environment was indeed luxurious, and the SE was even more ‘refined’ than the S, but at the end of the day the Europa was still a small vehicle with a small, quite noisy cabin, and it felt even smaller with the extra stuff in it.
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