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Why hasnt there been an Elise based kit car?
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:15 am
by Victor Meldrew
Think about it... they did it with the pontiac fiero thingy..
Perfect chassis as a base. And if it looked good and the price/quality was reasonable you would have a viable alternative for rebuilding accident damaged cars.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:25 am
by Dominic
There is... it's called the S2
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:46 am
by thinfourth
I thought it was the Vx220?
Seriously a kit car is normally a load of plastic stuck on a chassis which sounds like well an elise
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:52 am
by Victor Meldrew
How about this then...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:52 am
by Victor Meldrew
How about this then...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:04 pm
by GregR
John, have you got too much time on your hands today??
Why make an elise kit car? It virtually already is!
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:16 pm
by Victor Meldrew
[quote="GregR"]John, have you got too much time on your hands today??
quote]
Yup... bored.... stuck in front of a screen all day..
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:28 pm
by offshorematt
Thought I saw an awful Lotus 11 replica based on an Elise somewhere (Pistonheads?). Looked gash though...
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:24 pm
by Victor Meldrew
What started this off was looking at the price of the motor sport body kit on elise parts.... bloody expensive if you ask me...
Ive seen complete kit car kits for less than that.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:33 pm
by BiggestNizzy
John Reid wrote:What started this off was looking at the price of the motor sport body kit on elise parts.... bloody expensive if you ask me...
Ive seen complete kit car kits for less than that.
Know where you are coming from my ears pricked up when you mentioned the motorsport kit, it does look kinda cool. but it is a little bit pricey
but look what lotus ended up with when they tried to improve on the S1.... the S2! just doesn't cut it:P
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:36 pm
by jj
BiggestNizzy wrote:but look what lotus ended up with when they tried to improve on the S1.... the S2! just doesn't cut it:P
Wrong! They made this
The s2 is a good looking car, and definately better designed than the S1 - far fewer annoying faults.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:00 pm
by Victor Meldrew
jj wrote:BiggestNizzy wrote:but look what lotus ended up with when they tried to improve on the S1.... the S2! just doesn't cut it:P
Wrong! They made this
The s2 is a good looking car, and definately better designed than the S1 - far fewer annoying faults.
YOUR NOT WRONG....
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:28 pm
by tut
Bottom line...........
The S1 will be a classic, the S2 never will be.
The best looking car, if you can live with a tin top, was the S1 Exige.
End of discussion.
tut
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:33 pm
by tut
ps that yellow thing is slab sided crap.
tut
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:46 pm
by steve_weegie
