The greatest, and not so great, comments.....

[Chris49]

Lets hear some stories of public interaction with your Lotus of choice.

Feel free to add the compliments that have made your day, the plain dumb, perhaps the not so positive and everything in-between.

This concept has in no way been stolen from the Elisetalk forum!!!!!!!

Edited by Chris49 on Wednesday 9th July 15:59

[noodleman]

It's Batman (from a four year old).

[Tam]

Not the greatest, but the most surprising - I was washing my car on the drive and a small child (about 8) stopped to ask if I had the Rover or Toyota engine.

[NathanE]

Tam said:

Not the greatest, but the most surprising - I was washing my car on the drive and a small child (about 8) stopped to ask if I had the Rover or Toyota engine.

LOL no way?! That must have been hilarious. Did he also talk about oil starvation and HGF?

Edited by NathanE on Wednesday 9th July 15:40

[Gad-Westy]

"Is that a Smart car?" (oddly I got that one when I had a Westfield as well)

"Lotus! You know what that stands for don't you?" (Said by an AA call centre operative at 01.00 in the morning this February whilst I sat freezing my tits off, oh how I laughed)

"Hairdresser's car!" (Utttered by my Polo owning mate)

"Can you pull over, I think I'm going to be sick" (see above)

"Fark me, that's loud" (My mate had been following me down the M6 in a 996 Turbo and could hear everytime I opened the throttle, which I was quite pleased with. Even more pleased when he said that he almost had to break sweat to keep up with me when we started heading cross country)

[Chris49]

noodleman said:

It's Batman (from a four year old).

Brilliant!

[Boggy]

Same again by some right tosser driving a Volvo Convertible

"that's a bloody hairdressers Car" followed by after I left him standing at a set of light's about 4 miles away "Da u wanna cell it mate" fking brainless Chav

Boggy

[Shnozz]

"You should keep the box for that, it'll be worth something in a few years"

[TTwiggy]

just yesterday, a school boy of about 9 or 10 actually dropped to his knees, did the 'not worthy' thing and said 'oh... my.... god.... it's a Lotus' - I think his friends, while also impressed by the car, thought he was a bit strange.

Only 'negative' was a youngish guy in an astra who asked how much bhp I had (134 I said). 'Is that all? this (indicating his Vauxhall) has 147'... 'uh huh' says me...

5.9 secs later he's going backwards in my rear view...

[John D.]

Shnozz said:

"You should keep the box for that, it'll be worth something in a few years"

Thats quite a good one

[Bombjack]

"Mum, that car's faster than the speed of light!"

[mrssumner]

Boy: "That's an £80K car, that!"
His Gran: "Yes, but where would you put the shopping?"

"James Bond!"

"She'll be getting her lippy out and doing her makeup in a minute... f'ing hairdresser!" - Whilst I'm struggling to get into my harness at petrol station???

[Gooby]

Bunch of Chavs in a corsa "Nice Haidressers car"

Quick responce - Nice shopping cart, is that you mums?

[fatboy111]

Sat with my work colleague going to a meeting and white van man pulls up ''who's the giver and who's the taker?''

How funny.

[ganglandboss]

I was picking my mum up from the pub she works at. As she was getting in, a few of the regulars and staff came out for a look. One of the barmaids at the top of her voice in front of my mother: "I bet you've had plenty of clacker driving that!!!"

[Mr_B]

Some south american sounding guy in London ' is like toy car, fantasic! '

[Chris49]

I've got to say gents theres alot of negative comments here

[ganglandboss]

Chris49 said:

I've got to say gents theres alot of negative comments here

Probably because they stick more in peoples minds. Personally I lose count of the times I hear Kids shout "Woah! Smart car mate!" etc. as it happens most times I go out in it.

[TonyHetherington]

What always amazes me is people's desire to have to say something.

Positive comments are great and make me smile. But why do people feel the need to say "I don't like that car". eh?!

Or one kid this morning "my dad's car's faster than that". I felt like stopping and asking what the hell his dad's got that reaches 60 in under 4 seconds, but I just couldn't be bothered

Also, some girls this morning (I drive past a secondary school to get to work)....

Girl 1; "wow I like your car"

Girl 2; "I don't like your car"

Girl 1; "I don't like your beard"

[atomicpunk]

From the Czech guy who was doing the valet parking at a hotel in Prague:

When we arrived: "You drive this all the way from London? You are crazy man"

When we left: "That is greatest car I ever drive"