The World According to Tim Skipper

I’ve been going through my collection of in-car videos this afternoon and have uploaded to my YouTube channel a bunch of new videos of me driving my Lotus Elise Sport 190 around various tracks in the UK.  I’ve still got a load more to upload yet!
It’s brought back some great memories of 2002.

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I was exceptionally fortunate with this car, in that it didn’t cost me a penny to run in the 7 months I owned it, beyond petrol and insurance. It transpired that the Sport 190 wasn’t quite as production ready as it should have been, and in return for allowing Lotus to continue to develop […]

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Well I’ve just come back from the Lotus factory where my friend Adrian and I were getting the full tour, arranged courtesy of Guy Munday at Lotus Cars dealer Stratton Motor Company.
Adrian is collecting his deep purple S1 Sport 190 this afternoon from Stratton Motor Company, and I’m due to collect my new black S2 […]

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When I went to test the Elise 135 a couple of weeks ago, it was merely as a curiosity. As you will know if you’ve read my subsequent test drive reports, I was very surprised how much I liked it.
The factory visit/test track day in their development Lotus Sport Elise 190 was the icing on […]

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I’ve been really looking forward to today since I had a test drive in a new S2 Elise last week, and was offered by the dealer the opportunity to drive the new Lotus Sport Elise 190 around the Lotus factory test track, with a tour of the MotorSport facility thrown in for good measure.
The factory […]

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