why did you sell your elise?

[theweeninjaguy]

for those of you whoe have or are selling their lotus elise, i'm jsut wondering why?

new baby?
wedding?
crashed it!?
high running costs?
service coming up soon?
to buy another?

why guy's why??

ninja

[Davey S1]

To buy my Exige

[boggy]

I sold my Yellow S1 Elise because I thought I'd be better off with a Normal Car! what a terrible mistake !!!

At least I've now got my 111R Phew

Boggy



>> Edited by boggy on Thursday 16th June 15:50

[xxplod]

I don't know. Sold it 10 weeks ago, and have regretted it every single day since. It kind of made financial sense, although I didn't actually HAVE to sell it. It was the car I'd always wanted. Wife never liked it.

Dunno...

I've ordered a Porsche Cayman S, but if I'm honest, I'd rather have kept my 111S for this summer and PX'd it next year for a 111R. Strange, I'll pick up a new £45K Porsche in Feb '06 and I don't feel nearly as excited as I was when I picked up my first Elise, a new 2000/V S1.

[S Works]

xxplod, you can always cancel mate. Go on, you know it makes sense. You don't want a Frankenporka!!!

Why did I sell mine?

Well be cause some twunt in a Fiesta wrote it off and all it was good for was salvage!

[theweeninjaguy]

good to hear that no one has said it was rubbish!

my gf hates the elise too and she's going to like it even less when she sees the driving position and how she'll have to get into it! not much i can do about that i guess so she'll just have to get used to it!

wahahahahahahahaha

ninja

[Davey S1]

theweeninjaguy said:

good to hear that no one has said it was rubbish! my gf hates the elise too and she's going to like it even less when she sees the driving position and how she'll have to get into it! not much i can do about that i guess so she'll just have to get used to it! wahahahahahahahaha ninja

Just get a really loud exhaust to drown out her winging.

[rfoster]

Sold my Elan to buy an Elise
The Elise reached the end of its lease agremeent and I bought a BMW Convertible.
Promptly sold the BMW and bought an Esprit.
Sold the Esprit to get my current Elise!
Hope I'll never have to change it.

[theweeninjaguy]

rfoster said:

Sold my Elan to buy an Elise The Elise reached the end of its lease agremeent and I bought a BMW Convertible. Promptly sold the BMW and bought an Esprit. Sold the Esprit to get my current Elise! Hope I'll never have to change it.

lol, so out of the esprit, elise and elan which is best IYHO??

ninja

[rfoster]

They're all fab - The Elan was my first and it was a cinch to drive, very nippy. Great engine, crap brakes crap hood. The Esprit was very expensive to run & maintain (mine was non turbo) but had a great image.
Of the lot my fave is the current elise. There's nothing to match it when you drive it with the roof off.

[Mutant Rat]

Sold mine 'cos it wasn't comfortable enough for the high mileage I was doing in it, and because the girlfriend was complaining about how difficult it was to get in and out of gracefully.

[theweeninjaguy]

yeah tbh i'm not looking forward to showing my gf the new car! cos she'll hate having to drop her ar5e over the sill to get in!

lol, but it'll be a different story when she's wanting put on the insurance

ninja

[340ragtop]

to buy my 340R and an esprit (which I then sold).

[garydvo]

theweeninjaguy said:

new baby? wedding? crashed it!? high running costs? service coming up soon? to buy another? ninja

Babies, had two
Crashit yep a van pulled out on me
C Service & brakes was £1000
Would like an exige

Sell the Elise. Noooooooo.

My wonderful wife has the family car (L200 Warrior), I could never sell the Elise.

[S Works]

In response to the "my girlfriend doesn't like it posts", I bet the car is still around when she's not!

[beachbum]

The only reason that springs to mind, is if I immigrate, otherwise Death and then the wife can.

[DanH]

To get a Noble. The lack of overtaking power and understeer were beginning to grate and my friend offered me his old car at a fair price. I could have fixed the understeer (at 15%+ of the cars value!), but lack of overtaking power was a more expensive problem. Also fancied a change.

[Sarbs]

sold my s1 111s in 2003, only can be because of labotomy i must have had the week earlier, lived with regret ever since, even though I bought a new 996 c4s I made a big mistake. A man must have a 'stupid' car that you have to spend time justifying to the world! Enter the 340r.

[wendyg]

Had a baby, so the S1 had to go....











... because of my husband's complete failure to buy me a suitable gift for the successful delivery of his son and heir....










...I got myself an S2 111S

(and there's another littl'un due in September.. I wonder what I'll buy myself this time?)

[Davey S1]

Wendy

*Cough* 340R *Cough*