Lotus passed MOT with flying colours..

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Too my Exige for the annual MOT just by the high street yesterday.
The MOT guy happily informed me the car passed fine, but he also gave me a massive bking for not driving the car



New Year resolution sorted, drive the bloody Lotus more!

[Jim H]

I do look at my mileage between MOT’s on my Elise, and feel a certain degree of shame.

It’s nowhere near as bad as that.

[Mr E]

I drove mine today. In the dark, cold and wet.
Yes, the Alfa is broken again.

[languagetimothy]

thats appalling and the MOT guy was correct. do it, drive the thing hard and enjoy. why haven't you been? and please dont tell me "its because its will keep its value better"... really, please dont tell me that.

[Deranged Rover]

Hang on, EXACTLY the same mileage this year and last year.

Do you live at the MOT station?!

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languagetimothy said:

thats appalling and the MOT guy was correct. do it, drive the thing hard and enjoy. why haven't you been? and please dont tell me "its because its will keep its value better"... really, please dont tell me that.

Nope, absolutely nothing to do with value (I leave those type of conversation to the Porsche forum members..)

The Exige was previously my sole car for around 10 years performing both track and road duties.
It's now my 3rd car, so it doesn't get a sniff of action! My GT3 is actually more family friendly, so I tend to use it over the Exige. Plus, it's garaged and I have become lazy getting it out

Anyway, the short drive to/from the garage has reminded me why I bought the Exige, so I will taking the roof off for some pointless drive over this winter!

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Deranged Rover said:

Hang on, EXACTLY the same mileage this year and last year.

Do you live at the MOT station?!

Good spot!
The MOT garage is 0.4 miles from my house so the clock hadn't register any distance since my drive back from the 2025 MOT!

[Mr Tidy]

Going by that, as others have said I really think you need to drive it more!

But it looks like you might have plans to do that, so I hope you do. It's a driver's car after all, so really needs to be driven.