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You have the means to own such as car as well as have a great daily driver. Is a perfect combination. Ur living the dream of many on here. I live in Dallas as well, and i have seen 1, maybe 2 of those zooming around. I am green w/ envy.
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Between the Elise, Miata and S2000 the Elise will be the largest car
If I could only pick one it'd be the S2000 still, the Elise is not livable as an only car even though it's not a full exotic and not my "dream" car by any stretch of the imagination (Zonda F, CGT etc)
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Winter = temps that range from -30 to -50 C with lots of snow, plus being a student means I can still haul my books and some hot girls without having to use the trunk
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I'd love to own an elise...or an extige S
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Well you live in a area where it's nice and warm all year round ![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Winter = temps that range from -30 to -50 C with lots of snow, plus being a student means I can still haul my books and some hot girls without having to use the trunk
Winter = frozen trunk = ftl.
I'd love to own an elise...or an extige S![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
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Winter = temps that range from -30 to -50 C with lots of snow, plus being a student means I can still haul my books and some hot girls without having to use the trunk
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I'd love to own an elise...or an extige S
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I would of chosen an Evo if they were available in Canada
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I know of at least 4-5 in Dallas, 2 of them are my friends (one is supercharged). There's a Chrome orange one running around Irving but I do rarely see them on the street as they are mostly weekend cars anyways so people don't drive them all the time.
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wow man i lived in dallas before i moved to houston. the lotus looks great. How much did you buy it for, if you don't mind me asking? congrats on the sweet upgrade.
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The stage 2 exhaust sounds incredible, very deep and burbles and backfires when dropping from high rpms. Under bridges it sounds like a 1000CC sport bike at 10,000 rpms. Going to detail it and get it inspected today and regsiter it tomorrow hopefully. Will post pics then.
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I really want to drive one of these one time. If I were to get two cars a DD and a 2-seater the Elise, Z4 and Boxster would be on the list.
Wonder if you wanted to use it more for on road if you could just changes the springs or something.
Wonder if you wanted to use it more for on road if you could just changes the springs or something.
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I saw TWO Lotus Elise's this week. One of which was yellow. It had no windshield! Just two very small low profile wind deflectors. One for the driver & another for the passenger.
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#48
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Hey CosmosMpower, I think you were right about the Lotus I saw sans the windshield being a Two Eleven. It was in Temecula, CA. I only saw the front half of the car stopped at a traffic light. I couldn't tell if it had the rollbar as in the pic you submitted. I doubt anyone would want to remove the A-pillar/windshield on a car. That would just be to hardcore plus I'd bet there would be a loss of structural integrity. Do you know if the Two-Eleven requires special structural reinforcement bracing?
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Oh yes, theres a pretty big elise group in temecula, i remember seeing them at this lotus elise shop there, on a saturday morning , my jaw droped about 3 feet and i spent the rest of the day trying to put it back in place.
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Hey CosmosMpower, I think you were right about the Lotus I saw sans the windshield being a Two Eleven. It was in Temecula, CA. I only saw the front half of the car stopped at a traffic light. I couldn't tell if it had the rollbar as in the pic you submitted. I doubt anyone would want to remove the A-pillar/windshield on a car. That would just be to hardcore plus I'd bet there would be a loss of structural integrity. Do you know if the Two-Eleven requires special structural reinforcement bracing?
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The a pillars actually don't have any structural integrity to the Elise, it's glued on and is just there to hold the windshield and give the top somewhere to latch to on the front. Also 2-11's aren't street legal but a few dealers have been selling them in the US for track cars so I don't know. The 2-11 has an obvious paint scheme that says 2-11 on the side.
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