New Exige S2 owner!
Discussion
Just thought I'd say hi to a new part of the PH forum for me. I collected my new (to me) Lotus Exige S2 in Chrome Orange yesterday. And I absolutely love it!
I've known the car for a fair few years with it having belonged to a friend but he was parting with it to move onto something even more hardcore. I've owned a few pretty amazing cars in the past but this one just ticks so many boxes for what I love!
The car has a few extras on/in it. It has the Hans Carbon race seats from the 260cup, Orange Willans harnesses, carbon door cards and carbon rear wing.
Looks forward to probably probing you all for knowledge about these cars in the future, though hopefully not as much as I had to with my Cerbera! Are the Toyota engines as reliable as they're made out to be? Are there any other issues I should keep my eye out for?
First icy morning at work!
Its living quarters
I've known the car for a fair few years with it having belonged to a friend but he was parting with it to move onto something even more hardcore. I've owned a few pretty amazing cars in the past but this one just ticks so many boxes for what I love!
The car has a few extras on/in it. It has the Hans Carbon race seats from the 260cup, Orange Willans harnesses, carbon door cards and carbon rear wing.
Looks forward to probably probing you all for knowledge about these cars in the future, though hopefully not as much as I had to with my Cerbera! Are the Toyota engines as reliable as they're made out to be? Are there any other issues I should keep my eye out for?
First icy morning at work!
Its living quarters
Just seen you're in Yorkshire.
Get yourself to a NYLOC meet. Unfortunately you've just missed this months, next one is Tue 22nd March.
Fantastic well supported club with lots going on.
http://www.nyloc.org/
Get yourself to a NYLOC meet. Unfortunately you've just missed this months, next one is Tue 22nd March.
Fantastic well supported club with lots going on.
http://www.nyloc.org/
Jonty355 said:
Cheers guys!
TVR? Its unlikely I'll ever buy another. You know how people say they can be unreliable? They really are. Sounded good though and the Cerb even handled well. When it worked!
Yes that's my garage... Although I kind if converted it into a second living room/ Man cave!
I know what you mean about the Tiv, every time I walked towards the Griff in public, I felt apprehensive about whether it's going to start or not due to heat soak etc, will I be embarrassed or won't I.TVR? Its unlikely I'll ever buy another. You know how people say they can be unreliable? They really are. Sounded good though and the Cerb even handled well. When it worked!
Yes that's my garage... Although I kind if converted it into a second living room/ Man cave!
The first Griff was more reliable than the second, I'd buy another but it would have to be well sorted and a stable mate to the Elise which is a keeper 7 years in now.
I don't get any of the above with the Elise, total confidence in it starting and it's handling, superb cars and I'm hooked for life!
Rick101 said:
Just seen you're in Yorkshire.
Get yourself to a NYLOC meet. Unfortunately you've just missed this months, next one is Tue 22nd March.
Fantastic well supported club with lots going on.
http://www.nyloc.org/
Sadly I'll be out of the country then, but hopefully will be around for Aprils meet.Get yourself to a NYLOC meet. Unfortunately you've just missed this months, next one is Tue 22nd March.
Fantastic well supported club with lots going on.
http://www.nyloc.org/
I'll get myself signed up though!
Yeah, I've had a bad history with unreliable cars with Ferraris and TVR. Hoping a nice reliable Toyota engined car will prove better in that department!
It feels bloody fantastic to drive too! I write articles for the Supercar Driver club magazine so I've driven some pretty amazing machinery over the past few years, and the Exige is definitely up with with the best! It's like a mini F40!
It feels bloody fantastic to drive too! I write articles for the Supercar Driver club magazine so I've driven some pretty amazing machinery over the past few years, and the Exige is definitely up with with the best! It's like a mini F40!
Know what you mean about the mini-exotic thing. Had my car about 4 months now and it still feels really special to look at and drive. Can't imagine a Ferrari or Lambo would be any more fun but would definitely be a much bigger financial commitment as well as potentially attracting some negative attention.
Yeah, already noticed people are a bit nicer about it! Financially I'm not sure yet, but I could probably replace the engine completely in the Exige for the price of my Ferrari F355's cambelt service at a main dealer!
As for feeling special, before I owned my car and it belonged to a friend Indid a few laps of a circuit in it after have just been doing laps in someone else's Ferrari F430 Scuderia.... The Exige felt more special, it felt more connected and more raw! Ok, so the Scuderia made a better noise, but that's not worth the £180k+ extra over an Exige!
As for feeling special, before I owned my car and it belonged to a friend Indid a few laps of a circuit in it after have just been doing laps in someone else's Ferrari F430 Scuderia.... The Exige felt more special, it felt more connected and more raw! Ok, so the Scuderia made a better noise, but that's not worth the £180k+ extra over an Exige!
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