Elise is up for sale

[Del Lardo]

Put an advert up on SELOC tonight and will be doing Pistonheads on Friday. Had to drink half a bottle of wine before I could click the submit button as I am gutted to be selling but the cost vs enjoyment no longer makes sense as all I seem to do is drive it from Cambridge to Heathrow airport.

I will be back but for the moment I am totally :'( I have no idea how I'll feel when I see her being driven away but I suspect I will end up running down the road after her before collapsing in a heap in the middle of the road crying like a baby :'( :'( :'(

[Justsomebloke]

There CRAP anyway.


My opinion may be biased as when i got in one to drive it my knees were wedged so hard against the steering wheel i couldn't even take it for a spin :'(

Anyways i feel your loss ;)

[Flibster]

*bows head*

Shame. :(

Still, get an Exige/340R next time. :p

Simon/~Flibster

[Del Lardo]

There CRAP anyway.


My opinion may be biased as when i got in one to drive it my knees were wedged so hard against the steering wheel i couldn't even take it for a spin :'(

Anyways i feel your loss ;)


I feel VERY dirty for saying this but if you fancy trying an Elise type car give the COUGH VX220 COUGH a go. My mate who is 6'6" and couldn't drive an Elise gets on fine with the VX.

[Del Lardo]

*bows head*

Shame. :(

Still, get an Exige/340R next time. :p

Simon/~Flibster



Would love an S2 Exige though realistically with be another S1 Elise though this time I won't waste my money on a low mileage perfect example but rather a high mileage well modded and cared for example.

[Flibster]

I feel VERY dirty for saying this but if you fancy trying an Elise type car give the COUGH VX220 COUGH a go. My mate who is 6'6" and couldn't drive an Elise gets on fine with the VX.

VERY dirty?

Positively ****ing filthy I should hope! ;)

Had the 'pleasure' of a VX Turbo for a week when they were new. Took it out to a track and thrashed it, it wasn't a patch on the Elise/Exige/340R in funness. They even made it ugly.... :(

And it's got a Vauxhell badge on the front. *unless you get the much more desirable imho Opel badge*

I had to say something positive about it. I liked the colour. :embarassed:

It may be based on a superb car... but it's nowhere near as good.

Anyway... *plants subliminal messages*

340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R - 340R

Would love an S2 Exige though realistically with be another S1 Elise though this time I won't waste my money on a low mileage perfect example but rather a high mileage well modded and cared for example.

S1 Elise with a Supercharged Alfa 3l V6 in the back? ;) Only around 350bhp iirc.

Simon/~Flibster

[Justsomebloke]

I feel VERY dirty for saying this but if you fancy trying an Elise type car give the COUGH VX220 COUGH a go. My mate who is 6'6" and couldn't drive an Elise gets on fine with the VX.

If i didn't consider you a friend i would fall right out with you about now. Fancy owning an Elise an recommending a kin Vauxhall, if i can't fit in a Lotus i don't want nothing else :(
My love affair with Lotus goes well back & i even got myself run over once whilst daydreaming outside a Lotus garage :)
How much i love & want one cannot be described, it is one of the very few cars out there i am in Love with.

[Flibster]

If i didn't consider you a friend i would fall right out with you about now. Fancy owning an Elise an recommending a kin Vauxhall, if i can't fit in a Lotus i don't want nothing else :(
My love affair with Lotus goes well back & i even got myself run over once whilst daydreaming outside a Lotus garage :)
How much i love & want one cannot be described, it is one of the very few cars out there i am in Love with.

Lotus Cortina or Carlton? ;)

I'd desperately love a Mk1 Lotus Cortina, but they're stupidly expensive now. :(

Same goes with the Lotus Europa in Team Gold Leaf of JPS colours. Prices are rocketing. :(

Nobbers are now finally realising that Lotii are classic cars. They left us alone for years... now they're buying them as investments. :'(

So sad.

Simon/~Flibster

[Jonny69]

Ah but the classic car boom in the 80's/90's fell flat on its face didn't it? Everyone buying cars as investments lost loadsa dollar. It'll happen again, especially if people start getting nervous about their houses.

[Del Lardo]

Well I stuck a deposit on the replacement this evening.

:wave: Peternem

[Del Lardo]

Well after 3.5 months I am still the proud owner of a Series 1 Elise 111s. The market this summer has been absolutely dead due to the bad weather and it didn't help that I spent most of August in the US.

Had a grand total of five people interested in the car.
1. Had a good look around the car asked if he could take the car for an unacompanied test drive so he could show his GF. I obviously refused but offered to take him and his GF out seperately and offered to let him drive the car if he could sort out insurance. Ended up taking him and GF out for long seperate test drives (total 2 hours) and he then offers me £8k and tells me he can't go any higher. The car is advertised at £9950 so rather annoyed I tell him to (word rhyming with duck) off.

2. Guy from Birmingham is very interested but can't commit until he's sold his Westfield. After two months of mails back and forth he finally e-mails me on my work account on a Saturday asking to see the car (he has my mobile number) which I don't pick up till Monday. In the mean time he puts a deposit down on another car.

3. Guy turns up has a quick look round but decides it's too impractical (read he really wanted a Boxster). Fair enough.

4. Guy phones up from Germany, asks all sorts of questions. Never hear from him again.

5. Chap sees the for sale signs on cars, very interested and loves the test drive. Wants to buy it but wife vetos it as it's too impractical despite the fact she'll never drive it and he's just bought her a brand new £35k Discovery :angry:


Going to give it till the end of the month and then stick it in storage till the spring when hopefully the market will pickup. Still it seems that my decision to sell is the right one as since I put it up for sale I've done a grand total of 600 miles in it, 200 driving it to Birmingham for the weekend, 100 miles of test drives and only 300 personal miles.

[Zirax]

I may know a man who would be interested in said motor. No promises as he is being rather girly and not making his damn mind up :/

[Del Lardo]

Well if he's after more details feel free to give him my mobile number. 07786 325367. I should be in the UK from tomorrow am for the rest of the week.



Basic spec is below....

Due to a change in job last September all I seem to do is drive my Elise to and from Heathrow airport so it's time to change to a more sensible car.

S1 Elise 111s
1999 - New Aluminium with red leather interior
~58000 miles
FSH - Bought from Plans on 8th Jan 2005 with 25k on the clock. Since then serviced by Plans and GST in Newmarket. Receipts for every penny ever spent on the car including original purchase receipt.
Hurricain induction kit
Larini club sport exhaust
Ali-belled front brake discs
Pagid RS14 pads front
Mintex 1144 pads rear
BFG Tyres
Tax - December 07
MOT - September 08
Elemental shower cap (currently damaged but will be repaired or replaced before sale).

Please U2U with any questions or to obtain contact details.
High resolution photos available on request.

I live just outside Cambridge but am often in the Heathrow/Surrey area.

Up for £9500 though open to reasonable negotition

[Zirax]

Ok I have forwarded the details onto him

[Feek]

As have I to someone at work.

[Feek]

"It's the wrong colour"

Wimmin!

[Del Lardo]

SOLD :'(