mpg for new elise s

[kazste]

Went to dealers yesterday and we were mulling over benefits of swopping my current elise s to the new one. Reasoning is I'm doing 14000 miles a year in mine and its mainly motorway usage, a new elise s would cost me around £40 extra a month and difference in my current cars mpg and the new s's would make back the £40 a month. I know this is something not many owners think about bit could anyone with a new elise s tell me what kind of mpg they get?
Also has anyone changed from old to new s, if so please tell me your thoughts.

Thanks for reading and have a good day.

[justin220]

An Elise for 14000 motorway miles? Seriously?

Even still, £40 a month is one less tank of petrol, I can't imagine the mpg would be good enough to outweigh that...?

[kazste]

Yeah I know its not the best car for the job but can only afford Tue one car and its a sacrifice worth it when I get a spare hour or two.
Looking at the government website if I do 1000 miles a month the difference between 37 mpg and 54 mpg old v new values is supposed to equal £40/month.

[Gabber]

I think it would be a very good deal for 40 a month extra.

You get a brand new car which is nice.

You get better fuel economy

You get a longer warranty also important with the miles you are doing.

You get better build quality

You give Lotus work which is good for them and the economy

I would say go for it!

[J2LOT]

No brainer go for it. For all the reasons above.
I have had a number of Elises and when I drove my brothers 1.6s I was amazed at how together it felt compared to previous incarnations. Much better build quality, not noticeably slower and generally felt more grown up than any other Elise. If you were coming from an R or SC the drop in performance might be an issue but from an S it will probably feel quicker (it isn't but there's not much in it).
Fuel is only ever going up in price in the long term so anything more efficient is going to pay off.

[kazste]

thanks for the advice will have a word with the dealer and do the sums in more depth.

Need to think of another three tone colour scheme. I'm thinkinng possibly black gold and white!

[bencollins]

you might need to take those figures with a pinch of salt, or at least dampen them down 5%, anyway a new car and fresh warranty is always nice!

[otolith]

I wonder if the new one is actually any more economical in real use, or just better at doing well in the EU test cycle?

[kazste]

I know what you mean about how realistic they are but the new one does have a sixth gear which should help when sat on the motorway which mine sadly has to do for a lot of its life.
Thinly I need to sit down and run the figures as would like to be able to buy one of the new elises to be release in a few years and need a decent amount of equity in the car to be able to get £35k for the new one.

[bencollins]

nothing more annoying than doing 4000rpm "cruising" at 75mph, when the tdi next to u is doing 2200rpm.
This is also the MX5s worse attribute IMO, given that driving will always involve highways.
Does anyone know the change in gear ratios, before and after?
Auto motor and sport do the most thorough tests but dont publish that online.
Anyhooo you had the right idea in the first place , asking someone who owns one.
Its on my shopping list if i go back to the UK.

[JACK6284]

A new car could be more economical petrol wise but putting 14k miles a year on a new Elise will make the depreciation cost much much higher. Even if you sell in privately a three year old Elise with 42k miles on it will put a lot of people off the car. Also, the new Elise could be with us in 2014 too and that will hit prices intially for sure.

Of course, if you are just trying to convince the "other half" its a good idea just do it

[kazste]

I agree with what your saying about mileage and depreciation but I'm already in that boat ad my 14 month old elise now has 18500 miles on it so unfortunately that ship has already sailed.
Not yet trying to convince the wife as still trying to convince me, I worked hard to get back to the point where I could afford a dream car and as such my current elise has a strong attachment, plus I love the Sprint colour scheme in blue.