{"id":4229,"date":"2012-12-28T13:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2012-12-28T13:07:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T13:07:57","slug":"lotus-abandon-sps-gearbox-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2012\/12\/28\/lotus-abandon-sps-gearbox-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus abandon SPS gearbox development?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Elise-CR-SPS-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1311\" alt=\"Elise CR SPS 4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Elise-CR-SPS-4-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s been well over a year since <a title=\"Lotus Cars \u2013 Elise: Pure Lotus, Nothing Less\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/2011\/09\/228\/\">Lotus announced the Elise SPS<\/a>, which was set to use an hydraulically automated version of the Elises EC60, while both the <a title=\"Evora GTE\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/articles\/galleries\/evora-gte\/\">Evora GTE<\/a> and <a title=\"Lotus Cars \u2013 Hardcore Soft Top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seloc.org\/2012\/03\/lotus-cars-hardcore-soft-top\/\">Exige S Roadster<\/a> have been shown with SPS gearboxes pair up the standard EA60 gearbox with a similar hydraulic pack to provide paddle shifting.<\/p>\n<p>Since then however little has been heard of the SPS gearbox and the option has disappeared from both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotuscars.com\/gb\/our-cars\/current-range\/elise-specifications\" target=\"_blank\">Elise<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lotuscars.com\/gb\/our-cars\/current-range\/exige-specifications\" target=\"_blank\">Exige Specification<\/a> pages on the Lotus Cars website, seemingly because the design was unable to deliver the required levels of performance and smoothness of operation.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion: <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.seloc.org\/viewthread.php?tid=354285\">SELOC Chat &#8211; SPS option not to see production?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been well over a year since Lotus announced the Elise SPS, which was set to use an hydraulically automated version of the Elises EC60, while both the Evora GTE and Exige S Roadster have been shown with SPS gearboxes pair up the standard EA60 gearbox with a similar hydraulic pack to provide paddle shifting. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[214,265,304,324,328,369,808],"class_list":["post-4229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotus","tag-development","tag-elise-sps","tag-evora-gte","tag-exige-s-roadster","tag-exige-v6","tag-gearbox","tag-sps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}