[s-cars] Lotus Elise, etc.

[Chris Covington]

It's great for a car, but if you want something so performance and
race-oriented, like that, why not go all out and get a CBR954RR, or an
R1, etc. instead of being trapped with 4 wheels!

Chris
'91 200q20v


On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Paul Krasusky wrote:

> OK, WHO'S "smoking the carpet" here????  (Good one by the way, Fredric...
> think I'll toke a hit this evening!)
>
> Who in their right mind would NOT want an Elise.  Stupid Americans, that's
> who, so we don't get 'em.  I saw tons of them while in England, even cruised
> the dealership.  Boy are they reasonable over THERE.  I'd have one in a
> second, wouldn't even blink and eyeball.  What a track car.
>
> Who said anything about using it as a commuter, anyway?  Though heck, if I
> manage to commute 25 miles to work in my
> about-as-safe-as-an-empty-Budweiser-can-and-no-seat-belts '58 TR3 (in
> terrible need of rear shocks with a live axle & leaf springs mind you!), I
> think I could 'suffer' in the Elise.  Hell, I think I'd actually feel like I
> was in a vault comparatively!  I guess you get accustomed to being able to
> read the mileage counters on the hubs of tandem tractor trailers while
> cruising next to them.  Keeps the fact you could become tread clutter in a
> matter of seconds out of mind, right?
>
> But, reality dictates I will not have one.  Today.  Meanwhile, I'll enjoy
> sucking diesel fumes from the Dodge Ram next to me, with tailpipe basically
> funneled into my no-windows doors, in Hartford traffic...
>
> -Paul
> CT
> '95 //S6
> '58 TR3A commuter
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