2006 Noble M400 #141

[rose0529]

^ I was thinking the same thing! I didn't realize how similar in size they were.... in my head the Noble seemed bigger!

Andrew do you miss it still after driving the Noble? or do you like the Noble better?

[A//// Guy]

Pimpinnn, both look great. For some reason the Lotus sticks out to me a bit more to my liking but they are both awesome.

[Goat Blower]

Noble is more exotic looking, but the Lotus is definitely sexy.

[asshanson]

It's hard to say which body style I like better, both have their highlights. It's hard to tell from pics, but the Noble is about 10" longer I believe, and wider so there is actually a center console to rest your arm on. Interior is way better on the Noble, plus the extra 1.2 liters of displacement is nice. The only thing I like better about the Lotus was the steering, it had a small wheel and a quicker steering ratio than stock, plus it was manual. Hopefully a new smaller steering wheel will help out the Noble in that department.

[Speedfreak]

I notice the new owner took the wing off. Looks good. Btw, Indian guy?

[turbotalon1g]

That is awesome driveway pimpin' right there. I would of crashed my car driving by that.

[asshanson]

I notice the new owner took the wing off. Looks good. Btw, Indian guy?

The Indian guy is a friend who just got a Boxster and wants to start doing autox events with me, he wanted a ride in the new car.

[goodhart]

I like the Noble better. You gotten used to the weird gas peddle travel yet?

[asshanson]

Did my first autox event in the car today. Beat all the SM class cars in raw time, but nobody was in XP with me. The car is crazy easy to drive. I was pretty nervous about pushing the limits since there are zero electronic assists, but since it has so much grip I rarely found the limit. I kept pushing it harder, and it kept gripping. One time I did brake way to late and the rear swung out a bit, but it was really easy to recover (unlike the Exige). Very neutral.

I think the best part was that in the slalom, I started out in the morning taking it easy, and increasing speed. The last two runs I had a lot more speed and wasn't steering fast enough, so I got behind a bit and thought I'd hit the last cone, but it still made the corner. Just wish I could have had a couple more runs to really turn quicker and trust that the car would grip. Still need to review the videos and logger data to see what sort of G's the car pulls, both in the slalom and the 180* bend at the end of the runway.

Overall, super happy with my first event, hopefully I only get quicker with each event. I beat my friend with a red Evo for the first time, so I was pretty pleased about that. Oh, and I'm slowly getting used to the throttle. The long travel does make for easy modulation though.

[asshanson]

Vid of my best run on Sunday. Still need to hook up the tach and actual speed sensors, the speedo here is just GPS estimation.
Pretty excited that the car sustained 1.2 g's a couple times on non-slicks.
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