RE: PH Investigates: Ginetta's Road Cars

[Frimley111R]

otolith said:

Herman Toothrot said:

otolith said:

Base price for an Elise is now £29,230 for the 134bhp 1.6 - if with the 2.0 Duratec this can be lighter and more powerful, mid 30's might not be unreasonable.

group lotus said:

It’s pocket pleasing too, at £27,500 / €34,450* / CHF48,900, the Elise Club Racer marks the new entry level sports car from Lotus.

If the G40 ends up at £37K like has been mentioned several times in this thread it'll be £10K more than a base Elise. You could buy the base Elise and drop it off at a Link-up dealer and have it Honda'd for basically the same money.

Is that how cheap the CR is? My copy of AutoCar doesn't list it. So about £28,000 once you've added the soft top back in. Yes, you could buy that, tear up the warranty and modify it, but you could have said the same versus buying a recent R or SC. Or, instead of a 28,000 pound 1.6 Elise, you could buy a £20,000 MX-5 and give BBR £5k to supercharge it to 235bhp. I'd have thought most people planning heavy modification would start with a used car, though.

The G40 looks as if it will be around the same price and performance level as the R was, which doesn't seem unreasonable to me.

You could buy all sorts of things with the same money tbh. Its easy to say 'Why buy and Elise when you could buy and Boxster/Z4, etc?' but thousands still have. I think Ginetta could well fill the space left by the current Elise/Exige but bear in mind how unprofitable these cars were..

I hope Ginetta do well though.

[otolith]

I think the power, price and weight are spot on - they deserve to sell well, and I hope Ginetta go on to prove that it is possible to make money in this market after all. Were I in the market for a new 1.6 Elise, I would be very keen to look at this car.