New car - Elise S CUP (massive wing alert)
Discussion
Picked this up on Monday.
After months of obsessing over which Porsche to buy. I ended up with a Lotus.
Since buying I’ve managed a 3hr drive home via the M1. Then a short drive, in the dark, when it was raining and with cold tyres. Regardless, I already know I love it!
Since selling my last ‘fun’ car (a EVO VI) I thought having a motorbike in the garage would satisfy my petrol head cravings. It didn’t.
I was impressed with its frugality on the motorway (£40 to fill up and used less than 1/2 a tank to drive about £160 miles). However, I was less impressed when I fell out of the car the first time I filled up
I’m looking forward to getting to know it, doing some maintenance on it and going out with (one of) my kids.
Past car history is here..
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
After months of obsessing over which Porsche to buy. I ended up with a Lotus.
Since buying I’ve managed a 3hr drive home via the M1. Then a short drive, in the dark, when it was raining and with cold tyres. Regardless, I already know I love it!
Since selling my last ‘fun’ car (a EVO VI) I thought having a motorbike in the garage would satisfy my petrol head cravings. It didn’t.
I was impressed with its frugality on the motorway (£40 to fill up and used less than 1/2 a tank to drive about £160 miles). However, I was less impressed when I fell out of the car the first time I filled up
I’m looking forward to getting to know it, doing some maintenance on it and going out with (one of) my kids.
Past car history is here..
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Edited by oxnop on Friday 3rd February 21:02
ChrisCh86 said:
Much better than a Porsche! Thanks for sharing. Got any plans for it?
Thank you Plans at this stage are to take it on a few decent drives so I can get used to how it feels on the road (this is my first mid engined / rwd car)
Give it a proper clean inc underneath so I can get some protection on it (I don’t want it to be a garage queen)
Then once I’ve got a quieter exhaust - I’ll take it on some track days so I can explore it without the threat of ploughing through a dry stone wall !
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