When your Lotus....

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Jonty355

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220 months

Thursday 14th April 2016
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.... is worth the same as 2 wheels of the car next but one, but doesn't look too out of place in a line of cars worth 13 times more and 86 times more! Yep, thats right, for the price of a Bugatti Veyron Pur-Sang, you could buy over 80 Lotus Exiges!



Now I've driven a Bugatti Veyron and it was very nice and bloody fast [video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEr3Vh5Lo4I ]. The engineering in them is also unbelievable, harnessing 1001bhp into a useable everyday car that handles so well and is pretty easy to drive. However, I just its not quite worth 80 times more than my amazing Exige!

tankslappa

715 posts

213 months

Thursday 14th April 2016
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I remember parking my Exige alongside some Ferraris and other exotica a couple of years ago. Again, it didn't look out of place and got significantly more attention than I ever thought it would in that company.

To the average joe, they look every bit as exotic and expensive.

Altrezia

8,614 posts

218 months

Thursday 14th April 2016
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Jonty

Do you know a guy called Tom Fenton?

-al

Dalto123

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170 months

Thursday 14th April 2016
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I do love an Exige - Something I'd love to own in the future.

I think the Veyron is an amazing technical achievement, I'd sell a limb to experience what they're like on the road. However, I don't think it'll be 86x more fun than the Lotus as you say.

Jonty355

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Thursday 14th April 2016
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Yeah, I've noticed the attention it gets is every bit as much as when I've driven various supercars. Though with some other cars the attention can be negative in some cases, but not with the Exige.

Jonty355

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Thursday 14th April 2016
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Altrezia said:
Jonty

Do you know a guy called Tom Fenton?

-al
Yep, used to or still works at Corus/Tata Stocksbridge steel plant?

FELIX_5

957 posts

204 months

Thursday 14th April 2016
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Shame who ever parked that Bugatti, can't park straight! tongue out

Jonty355

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Thursday 14th April 2016
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To be fair I think he'd parked at an angle with some other cars which then all moved, so its probably myself and the 2 Lambos that were parked wrong!

Altrezia

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Thursday 14th April 2016
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Jonty355 said:
Yep, used to or still works at Corus/Tata Stocksbridge steel plant?
Small world. :-) Know him well!

Jonty355

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Thursday 14th April 2016
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Altrezia said:
Small world. :-) Know him well!
How did you manage to make a connection to me?

I've not seen Tom in years!

Altrezia

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218 months

Friday 15th April 2016
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Jonty355 said:
How did you manage to make a connection to me?

I've not seen Tom in years!
I remember weird things. I remembered he told me once about a friend who had a yellow 355, and presumed there can't be that many of you! wink


Jonty355

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Friday 15th April 2016
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Altrezia said:
I remember weird things. I remembered he told me once about a friend who had a yellow 355, and presumed there can't be that many of you! wink
If that's all you had to go on then that's impressive!