If you get an Elise, I will hit on your wife and say mean things about you on the Internet.

If you are anywhere near 6'2, you'll find it very cramped. I know i did.

5'7"

Well. There goes the whole you won't fit card.

From what I heard they're built for the track. Sorta like the ultimate little track toy. Daily driven? You'd rather have your balls kicked in.

+1

I've had mine since 2006 and it's done 3000 miles. The first thousand were fun, but after that to use it anywhere else except on the track was impractical and inconvenient.

It's an Exige S, but I doubt there will be too much difference between the Elise.

One reason for not buying a lotus: theronin does.

Get one.


I'll add that my Elise is the loudest, most uncomfortable, twitchy car I've ever had the pleasure of driving. But, and this is a big but, you're actually involved in driving the car. No computers beyond a crude traction control, if you have it at all, and a pretty good ABS system... if you have it at all. It feels every bit a road legal racing kart.

Subaru and Toyota both just realized outright speed is pointless: you can't drive any supercar 100% on the street and few of them let you actually drive. A Lotus won't be any of that. It will annoy you, and occasionally infuriate you, but every single time you drive it you'll have a smile on your face.

Ive folded myself into one a couple times.