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I have just bought a 2010 Elise R with the old 2ZZ-GE engine , but the newer S3 body. Very excited I really like the Cup style rear wing -- as seen in the latest Elise 250 Cup. Elise-shop do an aftermarket replica Cup wing If anyone has had direct experience of this rear wing , please could you tell me : 1) The quality of the wing 2) What are the uprights made of , and colour what are they ? 3) As I would be running the car without the front spoiler and the side skirts , I would want to set the angle of attack of the Elise as close as possible to zero degrees -- is this

Hi everyone , I have read all the relevant threads , but wanted an up-to-date summary , esp re the risk of fires , and engine damage . I would like a LOUD , HIGH PITCHED scream please , but NO car fires ( exhaust flames are fine) and no engine damage please . Any first hand info gratefully received 2bular ? , Hangar 111 ? , Quicksilver ? , Lotus ? , others ?? thank you Path

Dear Fellow LTF'ers , Yesterday I bought a 2010 Elise R N/A , and am delighted to have finally joined the Lotus family . I wanted to tell you about the wonderful service that we had from Jamie Matthews at Bell & Colvill yesterday , and to introduce myself and the car , and also to tell you about a book that I am planning to write on the Elise / Exige , and to ask you to contribute text and photos of your experiences and your cars . I had had plenty of time to think about what to replace my trusty 1993 Series 1 MX5 with , as that car , which I have owned for the la

Hi Barry .... thanks for that heads up .... I had just e mailed the seller ( apparently in Perth , Australia ) i shall be very careful The power of The Lotus Forums !! Thanks again

Thank you Barry How serious do the other issues sound to you , esp the oil pressure reading issue ? Path

Thank you Sailorbob i actually contacted the owner about a month ago re the seats !!!! , but he wouldn’t part with them ( v understandably ) in your collective wisdom , what do you feel about buying this CAT car , and also the defects that he has pointed out . I tend to to keep my cars for decades rather than years , so my initial feeling when I saw this advert last month was to give it a wide berth . It would need a full PPI at a classic lotus specialist aa a minimum , I would have thought . Also as it is a 1997 car it will have the Delco braking system ..

Just to update , and to justify my previously mentioned discombobulation : the same orange GT3 car has now gone back to the original dealer in Kent , and the price has gone up to £32,000 So within about a month the car has been at 2 specialist lotus dealers , gone to Brightwells Auction , and the price has varied as follows : £32k... £25k.... £21.5k( Brightwells )..... £32k . I can only presume that no significant work has been done on the car over the last month , but that’s a price variation fluttering between 25% and 33% ! Is this what is commonly called ‘ extracting t

Thank you , I’ve seen the red S4S for sometime now . Looks like I’ll just have to wait for Sparky to trade up to an Evija Are there any Esprit meets coming up in the spring / summer ? I was at the Beaulieu Supercar showdown but there were only a couple of Esprits there . Also has anyone got/moved from an S2 Exige to an Esprit, or vice versa ..... how do the two compare ? thank you

Dan E .... thank you for the invite . Gin is the one thing that I can do Path

Hate to interrupt the pressing issue re ( Sparky,s ) hot pants for the much more mundane and less glamorous topic of Esprits . The (same) green GT3 is still being advertised on carandclassiccar.co.uk for £26750 , so you can understand my confusion re pricing and availability ( 2 dealers miles apart selling the same car !) I take on board the point re provenance that all of you have made ...... so much easier to buy directly off the owner . I,m based in Dorset Where are you based Sparky ... I assume , not really Florida !? Path

Thank you all for your detailed responses. Its great to have owners with direct experience , and obvious enthusiasm , answering the questions . The green GT3 ( in about Sept ,I tried to get over my green phobia ) ... I think that this is the same car that was on sale in Oxfordshire , and I rang the then dealer who was prepared to let the car go for about £25.5 k If it is the same car then that’s a £10k increase ...... maybe that’s the Surrey tax. Looks like I need to reproduce what Sparky has ..... I’m used to waiting for the good things in life . Meanwhile , thank yo

Thank you all for your detailed responses. Its great to have owners with direct experience , and obvious enthusiasm , answering the questions . The green GT3 ( in about Sept ,I tried to get over my green phobia ) ... I think that this is the same car that was on sale in Oxfordshire , and I rang the then dealer who was prepared to let the car go for about £25.5 k If it is the same car then that’s a £10k increase ...... maybe that’s the Surrey tax. Looks like I need to reproduce what Sparky has ..... I’m used to waiting for the good things in life . Meanwhile , thank yo

Thank you Dragan ..... I’ve seen that advert .... just can’t really love a green or blue Esprit. Path

Thank you once again .... this time for putting the S4 and S4S on my radar. i,m aware of the spec differences , but I presume that you prefer these for the way they drive . please could you elaborate why you prefer these ?.... ? Reliability? Straight line performance ? Handling around corners ? Gearchange THANK YOU Path

Thank you Barrykearley . Yes , £32 k would indeed have been very rich . Maybe a near miss there . Have you any experience re GT3 vs Esprit Turbo ? Also as per the McLaren Facebook page , is there a forum/meeting point where Esprit are traded by word of mouth amongst owners ? Tx Path