why has this car not sold?

[craigdonnelly]

Why has this Elise Sport 190 from Castle Lotus not sold?

[grumpy]

Link?

[craigdonnelly]

http://www.castlesportscars.co.uk/cardesc/lotus-el...

[K2iss]

I suspect because, although special, it's not really a low mileage car and it is quite old.

For your £24k you can get a more recent Exige or an SC.
Not mentioning that a 111r with same HP are around £16k, leaving you some change for a few mods.

People are probably more interested into S1 for cars this old.

Edited by K2iss on Sunday 4th January 12:36

[kambites]

I suppose it's a pretty specialist car. Probably my favourite Elise varient but I can't say I'd spend £24k on one.

[lee111s]

It's simply too expensive.

[lee111s]

It's simply too expensive.

[over steer]

Am I the only one that finds that Ad copy a tad on the pretentious side?

I read the whole thing with driver X's voice in my head.

Re: the original question - Too expensive as stated above, you could find a nice N/A Exige for +/- £3k of that price.

[simpo555]

K2iss said:

I suspect because, although special, it's not really a low mileage car and it is quite old.

For your £24k you can get a more recent Exige or an SC.
Not mentioning that a 111r with same HP are around £16k, leaving you some change for a few mods.

People are probably more interested into S1 for cars this old.

+1

Edited by K2iss on Sunday 4th January 12:36

[kambites]

I think comparing it to a 111R or a SC is slightly missing the point. To some people, this will be infinitely more desirable than either. The question is just whether they can find one of them.

[RobM77]

kambites said:

I think comparing it to a 111R or a SC is slightly missing the point. To some people, this will be infinitely more desirable than either. The question is just whether they can find one of them.

That's exactly what I would have thought. To most people this car will seem just like a 190bhp 111R with trick suspension, just twelve and a half years old with 43k miles on the clock, which (if such a thing existed - the 111R wasn't released until 2004/2005), wouldn't be anywhere near this price. At the time when this car was released, 190bhp was unheard of in a factory Elise, so these residuals would be foreseen, whereas now it's standard, and SCs have more still. Incidentally, I think S1 Sport 160 values are influenced by the S1's classic status, which is something that the S2 has yet to achieve, plus the fact that the S1 never really came with much more power as standard, so the 160 was very special at the time.

[kambites]

It's also the best part of 200kg lighter than a modern supercharged car.

[harryowl]

RobM77 said:

At the time when this car was released, 190bhp was unheard of in a factory Elise, so these residuals would be foreseen, whereas now it's standard, and SCs have more still. Incidentally, I think S1 Sport 160 values are influenced by the S1's classic status, which is something that the S2 has yet to achieve, plus the fact that the S1 never really came with much more power as standard, so the 160 was very special at the time.

They did an S1 sport 190. Didn't sell many though!

[RobM77]

harryowl said:

RobM77 said:

At the time when this car was released, 190bhp was unheard of in a factory Elise, so these residuals would be foreseen, whereas now it's standard, and SCs have more still. Incidentally, I think S1 Sport 160 values are influenced by the S1's classic status, which is something that the S2 has yet to achieve, plus the fact that the S1 never really came with much more power as standard, so the 160 was very special at the time.

They did an S1 sport 190. Didn't sell many though!

Sorry, I realised that - I didn't mean to say that 190 was unheard of in a factor Elise.