ffs, talk me out of a Lotus Carlton

[anonymous-user]

[redacted]

[curlie467]

No. Just do it.

[Justayellowbadge]

No good reason not to.

None whatsoever.

[NadiR]

I'm 15 years too young, and I say go for it! Take me out in the LC when you (eventually) buy it, when you've realised I told you the right thing to do.

[Paul_M3]

I'm 35.

Do it. One day sometime in the future you WILL regret it if you don't. You only get one life.

[gforceg]

Four times already and now this. How many chances do you want? GS aged 48 1/2.

[f1nn]

there is no justifiable reason that anyone could present as fact that could dissuade me from buying one if I wanted/needed/had spare cash, so just do it.

[Podie]

You'd be happy with a GSi3000.





yeah, righto - get it bought.

[slash79]

Do it do it do it. Uber cool car. Like another poster said....... You only get one life!

[ILoveMondeo]

If it's what's your heart is telling you, do it. But make sure you drive one if possible, just in case it doesn't live up to expectations. Might be hard though... Not exactly many main dealer with a demonstrator handy!

Financially it makes better sense than a new golf for Christ sake! It won't exactly depreciate much!


Eta: that's not really talking you out of it, is it? fk it, if you don't do it now you probably never will!

[duckwhistle]

GO GET IT NOW , don't piss about. You can always re-sell for £2 less than you paid.

[Justayellowbadge]

fesuvious said:

Balls.

is this my my missus hates this place? You're supposed to talk about spares availability, rust, age, and leccy gremlins.

useless, the lot of yer

I bought an 8.32. 9 sold in the UK, from a manufacturer no longer present here. I dream of LC like parts availability, back up and electrical stability.

And would not change a thing. Get it bought.

[Pkh72]

Chap at work owns this one.
You know you need one in your life.

[Chebble]

I'm 11 years too young, but if I was 34 or older I would tell you that you'll probably regret not buying one in the future and that they are devastatingly cool.

But I'm too young so I can't tell you that. Feel free to ignore it

[Honk]

[Rammy76]

I'm 37, just go and buy it!

[Dave Hedgehog]

loads of reasons not to get one

its a vauxhall

massively over hyped, made headline back in the day purely because it was fast for its time

its a vauxhall

the carlton was a terrible car with a £13 dash

its a vauxhall

the engine block is a 1950s lorry block

its a vauxhall

etc



if its an itch then you need to scratch it



there are 10 reasons why personally i would not get one

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...

Edited by Dave Hedgehog on Sunday 4th May 20:34

[Fox-]

What does it do better than a similarly priced half the age E55 AMG?

[northandy]

I'm 40, and the LC was the ultimate fast saloon I had never heard of anything like it before, as a kid we all talked about it. I vaguely remember a story of someone saying they read that it had to be doing 90 to get into top gear (although I'm sure that's teenage exaggeration!)

Buy it so you can be hailed a hero by everyone else that wants one!

[idontknow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIeJDD1saHI