CARBON FIBRE FRONT & REAR SHELL

[jonny tvr]

Just getting some feedback from Elise owners (mk1 & mk2) on the level of interest for a carbon fibre front and rear body shell. The cost for both would be approximately £4.5K unfitted.

Comments please!

[Bonce]

That's a lot of money!

What's the weight saving? I doubt you'd get much serious interest for that money because there are very few elise drivers who really honestly would benefit that much from having a lighter car.

[chimburt]

err, thought that was the whole point of the elise?
would look fab bare, so long as it was laid up well.
price does seem a bit high though - works out to what - 50% premium over standard?

[Bonce]

Well yes, performance through light weight was always Colin Chapman's philosophy, but one of the driving (excuse pun) forces behind the Elise was that it should be *low cost* as well.

£4.5k buys you a hell of a lot of performance tuning/driver training/maintenance ....

[steff]

Try posting on BCBBS you'll probably get some more interest there with the die hards!

www.british-cars.co.uk/cgi-bin/gen5?runprog=lotusbbs

[DanH]

They are already available I believe.

I don't think they've sold at all well though. To be honest the Elise is too cheap a car to justify that type of expense. Most of the hard core owners cars are only worth 15k with the odd nutter who's dropped a further 10k on engine upgrades.

[mister kevlar]

Wait a minute. Did i see the words "nutter" and "elise" in the same posting?. Never.

[bogie]

available here for 1/3rd of the price

www.lotusecosse.com/

[james24]

£4.5k?

Can you imagine the feeling when you hear somone driving into the back of you

[tonytubi]

Can have both sets of clams made in China for half that price and half the weight of standard.