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Tried a new Elise on for size

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I've put 5000 miles on mine in 4 months, but that includes 3 pretty long trips.

I love it!!!

Heading to Ocean City, MD in it this weekend.
 
I stopped my '76 'B next to a red Elise at a stop light a month or two a go. No doubt about it, it's a great looking car. After driving my 'B in a sea of towering tanks (full size SUVs), it was refreshing and even a little shocking to have to look DOWN to see the occupants of the car next to me... heh. Like everyone else that's posted so far, if i had the money i'd get one too... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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I've put 5000 miles on mine in 4 months, but that includes 3 pretty long trips.

I love it!!!

Heading to Ocean City, MD in it this weekend.

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Basil
 
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Basil is very pretty too....

in his own special way /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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Why thank you!

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Y'know, that Ricky is pretty too!!! I think with that A-chord Basil is starting to play "Wild Thing" /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
GrassRoots, at eh Walter Mitty in Atlanta last April (?) Lotus brought 4 or 5 of these suckers for us to run in a small autocross. FANTASTIC
 
The seats are a bit too big for me; I slide around in them. I'm 5'10" and 165 lbs. Getting in and out isn't very difficult once you figure out the method you're going to use. It takes a couple of tries, but you get used to it.
 
how is it compared to getting in and out of a Corvette ... built on say the L98/LT1 chassis? My mother had one when I was in my late teens/early twenties, and I remember thinking it was a bit awkward to get in and out of with the top on due to the wide sills...
 
I was the guy months ago on the Spridget site that thought a "poorman's" version of the Elise would have been the logical "new" Sprite. In the pre-release blurbs on the car,it was touted to go for somewhere in the$30-$35K range and fit the small, lightweight, well-handling, small-displacement formula that made the Sprite so successful. In today's car prices that would have been so! I have seen several on the road and love the car, and would love to drive it...but at what price? The Exige is even more mouth-watering and awsome but come on...at what price again? Colin Chapman was endeavoured to build his cars to be awsome at a reasonable price for the more "common" afficionado,not the "Ferrarista", ergo his original "7" (which originally wasn't ever"Super")which you could buy in a kit and build in your livingroom. One of my Dad's friends did just that and, I remember as a young lad, we had to tear out the front windows of the living room to get it out because we could not lift it and turn it sideways to get out the front door!
 
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how is it compared to getting in and out of a Corvette ... built on say the L98/LT1 chassis? My mother had one when I was in my late teens/early twenties, and I remember thinking it was a bit awkward to get in and out of with the top on due to the wide sills...

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When the ZR1 first came out, my dad referred to getting into one of these Vettes as "getting into a full body condom." I own an '89 Vette roadster, and I agree that ingress/egress is pretty nasty.

But the Vette is nothing compared to the Lotus, especially an Elise with the top on. It's a small opening with a huge drop and a wide sill. Without the top on is much easier!
 
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