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Originally Posted by Lachean
Are you kidding? The look, the handling, the rarity, the status symbol, the Elise all the way. Have you seen the Top Gear video where there Apache Heli couldnt even get missle lock on the Elise because it handled so well?
It ran a faster lap time than the Porsche GT3 on a WET TRACK with slick tires. It was the 5th fastest car they've ever had around their track, and that was on a wet track.... The Elise/Exige are amazing cars, MR and true driver's sports cars...
The Mustang is only respectable in a straight line...
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I'm very serious. The elise sucks as an only car because its higly unpractical.
Also its size if of great concern to me in a crash. Over 50% of automobiles in Utah are trucks, most of them in the gargantuan classes. They are so high and large that they override most crumple and safety zones of regular cars so you can only imagine how bad it would be to be hit in something as low and small as the elise.
i've just recently been hit by a soccer mom' expedition and it caused 8000 USD damage to my car. When she hit me the last thing i saw was her door handle above the level of my head. If i would have been in an elise i would be in a hospital right now since her truck would've been on top of the lotus.
I don't see this as a failure of lotus engineers, I'm sure the car has very good safety. I see this as the fault of trucks build with complete disregard to other cars' safety.
This is why if i would have only one car I would chose the cobra, its far more practical (4 seater, good size trunck), and its a bit bigger and higher off the ground making it better in a VS truck crash.
As a second car however I would chose the lotus.