Steve Macdonald
Director of Photography
45 The Causeway
Maroubra Sydney
NSW, Australia 2035

28 September 2003

Dear Steve,

Thanks again for the rear custom billet steel drive shafts. I also appreciate your advice and input into the design and manufacture of these items. They are so much stronger and more reliable than the original modified VW sample I sent you!.
They are also vastly superior to the original Lotus factory axles, and this can only inspire a new level of confidence in the motor sport environment.
In addition, they were beautifully machined and are a perfect fit. I was also able to run last Saturday, thanks to your fast delivery, and won my class by over 4 seconds!, (Might be a good idea to keep the specs in your data base. Several local Club members were impressed with their manufacture and the price).
Again, thanks for a great job.

Kind regards,

Steve Macdonald

Anthony Fera
Address Withheld

5th August 2002

After purchasing my 1997 Lotus Esprit, I was told about Steve Taylor in Melbourne. I was advised that Steve had extensive knowledge in regards to lotus parts, service and maintenance.

I thought I would drive my Lotus to Melbourne on a business trip and leave it with Steve to have a look over it. Steve's passion for lotus cars was obvious from the minute he met me at the driveway.

Steve has offered a lot of advice and help during my first year of ownership; having someone like him only a phone call away is invaluable.

He has supplied me with many parts and those he did not have available he sourced for me. He has also provided me with technical advice in regards to modifications to my car and has always been willing to liase with my mechanic in Sydney.

Steve being the traditional man that he is was at times concerned by the amount of high performance modifications I wanted to do to my lotus, but after some convincing, he gave in and was very willing to assist me.

As far I am concerned, Steve Taylor is Mr LOTUS in Australia and would recommend him to all other Lotus owners.

Yours sincerely

Anthony Fera.

Gordon W N Moore
Address Withheld

5 October 1999

Dear Steve,

Thank you indeed for the amazing speed with which you re-engineered the water pump for my Lotus Excel and despatched it back to Brisbane. Also your cost seem most reasonable for such knowledge, workmanship and efficiency


Yours faithfully

GW N Moore

September 2006 Newsletter
Club Lotus Australia Inc.
New South Wales
Australia

Got the BLUES, wondering “where do you get it?” or “how do I fix that?”

Oil Filters again. Generally I have not been aware of any problems with oil filter quality and advice but people tell me that there are problems for the unwary (as I found running the wrong filter type on the Seven for 16 years!). On buying the Elise recently I contacted Steve Taylor at Lotus Marques for filters as I wanted to make sure the new toy got TLC. To my surprise Steve has found various problems over the years with some filter makes. He has written a short preamble to a US based oil filter survey link which is interesting but only makes you unsure of where to go next. In the end it seems that not all oil filters are created equal and, just because one filter is larger than another, does not necessarily result in superior performance, even if it is dearer. Remember, in our small market, filter stock is sourced from many different countries and may come from one country this month and another the next. Steve recommends FRAM filters from the UK and AMSOIL filters from as his testing shows superior performance over the majority of other popular brand names in the UK.