oh BOLOCS - i might gave bought a new car!

[village idiot]

i appear to have bought myself a new elise...

it's silver, has a 3.2 litre engine, 6-speed gearbox and was built in stuttgart.

picking it up tonight (hopefully).

[cabbron]

r32 engined? 300 ish hp and tractor loads of torques??piccies please!

[doodles19]

Pics pics pics pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese

[Grinnders]

Sounds suspiciously like a Boxster or could it be a Cayman? do tell do tell

[village idiot]

Grinnders said:

Sounds suspiciously like a Boxster or could it be a Cayman? do tell do tell

lol.. right first time..

annoyingly, my future house purchase is probably going to take a little more of my funds that i hoped, so for the time being i have wound back my plans for a 996 or a maserati 4200 and settled for a 3.2s cockstar. i should pick it up tonight.

i just couldn't handle not having something to punt about in when the sun is shining... i may possibly upgrade towards the end of the year.

[The Pits]

Why are you posting this here?

[village idiot]

The Pits said:

Why are you posting this here?

because i am one of the original members of BOLOCS (Bournemouth Lotus Owners retrobates) and this is where we tend to hide out...

[Grinnders]

Let's do a run soon so you can show it off.

[village idiot]

definitely up for that... just got home with it... what a car!... all the best bits of my previous elises and the tvr with none of the downsides (other than the complete lack of charisma, which goes quite well with my personality)...

the car is an absolute credit to the previous owner (who has had a number of nice toys including a lancia intergrale)... the cosmetic condition is closer to a 3yr old 25k miler and the service book is completely stamped up and accompanied by a massive file of receipts including all old MOT certs and tax discs.

not a bad effort for £8.5k all in.

sure it doesn't have clear lights, bose (which would have been nice tbh) or psm, but it does have hard-backed sports-seats, full leather, a glass-rear screen roof and the onboard computer thingy... it is also running on 17"s rather than 18" turbos or classics, so rides really well.

happy times!