New Car Opinions

[mildcustom2]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

I question your commitment to this hobby. How could you possibly consider a sports car when a tank upgrade could easily suck that unwanted money away just as fast LOLLOL LOL LOL.

Fortunately my new medication is working to keep me sane.

[PoonTang]

Any BMW M series car will give you all you could want. Readily available dealership support and a virtually unlimited choice of aftermarket addons to make it as unique as you want.

[Skimmerking]

well you guys can't touch my car its a chysler Breeze with AC or our van the KIA Sedona. that is classy.............. I used to own a MAzada MX 3 with turbo ,and cold air intake it wsa pretty classy with metallic Red paint and custom seating. it was a 2 seater.. love that then the booss said get rid of it its asingle mans car , since we got back together...

now if you are looking for a car the camaro the one in Transformers that is sexy...............

[fkshiu]

The Lotus will be a bit of a waste unless you plan to take it out to the track on at least a semi-regular basis where it was meant to be. And I don't mean simply taking it auto-xing, but a real race track.

I'm sure you already know this but the Lotus is simply a barebones street legal go-kart: damn fast and fun, but hard to live with: hernia-inducing ergonomics, back breaking suspension, deafening noise on the highway and shoddy fit/finish for such an expensive car.

A Corvette convertible is probably a better poseur car and a tweaked S2000 is probably a better all around bang for you buck.

A shame they didn't stick a Honda engine in there given their history with Rover. The Toyota one is fine, but it ain't no 8000rpm VTEC screamer.

[VFX]

Originally Posted by fkshiu

I'm sure you already know this but the Lotus is simply a barebones street legal go-kart: damn fast and fun, but hard to live with: hernia-inducing ergonomics, back breaking suspension, deafening noise on the highway and shoddy fit/finish

I agree with all those things except for back breaking suspension.

It's one of the most supple sports cars I've ever driven. The ride was suprising good.

My Boxster is worse over the bumps than the Elise & the Mini Cooper S is much worse than both of them!

The supercharged Toyota engine has a nice dollop of torque low down but will still rev past 8000 rpm & the non supercharged on doesn't wake up until at least 4000 rpm.

Elise's never used the Honda designed, high revving VTEC engines... they used the K-Series which was much better low down the rev range & much more stable when tuned for 200+ bhp.

Anyways, Sean? You know that Elise has your name on it!

(Man I'm a car geek as well as reef geek! - heaven help me!)

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[mr_alberta]

Is the Ariel Atom available in Canada yet?

[mildcustom2]

Originally Posted by mr_alberta

Is the Ariel Atom available in Canada yet?

Should be available this year, they just opened a plant in the US from what I've read.

[mildcustom2]

Originally Posted by VFX

I agree with all those things except for back breaking suspension.

It's one of the most supple sports cars I've ever driven. The ride was suprising good.

My Boxster is worse over the bumps than the Elise & the Mini Cooper S is much worse than both of them!

The supercharged Toyota engine has a nice dollop of torque low down but will still rev past 8000 rpm & the non supercharged on doesn't wake up until at least 4000 rpm.

Elise's never used the Honda designed, high revving VTEC engines... they used the K-Series which was much better low down the rev range & much more stable when tuned for 200+ bhp.

Anyways, Sean? You know that Elise has your name on it!

(Man I'm a car geek as well as reef geek! - heaven help me!)

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Lets get a Reef Geek car cruise together when I get one. When you come over in a couple weeks we'll probably spend as much time talking cars as we do corals.

I think you should be a Lotus salesman/person

Thanx

Sean

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Originally Posted by mildcustom2

Lets get a Reef Geek car cruise together when I get one.

I wonder if my little Focus hatchback can keep up....

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Originally Posted by mildcustom2

Lets get a Reef Geek car cruise together when I get one. When you come over in a couple weeks we'll probably spend as much time talking cars as we do corals.

I think you should be a Lotus salesman/person

Thanx

Sean

Yep! Reef Geek Car Cruise is on!

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