Nice Kuga.

Huh?  What?  Plenty of cars live on past their expected life without suddenly self immolating.  What does age have to do with things if properly maintained?  I’m confused.  So confused.

There was a time a while ago when I made earnest, persistent efforts to understand what blockchain is. After reading many thousands of words, I regret to report I failed, resigned to the fact that some parts of this life will forever be unknowable.

Yes but then you’d have a Focus RS. You’d be that guy. You know. The knuckle dragger. The mouth breather. Gazza from Essex. Don’t be Gazza. Buy a Mazda. Enjoy nice things.

10 year + Elise S1 owner here.  I daily drove it for 5 years.  What do you replace daily duties with?  A Fiat Panda 100hp.  Tall, nimble, fun to chuck around, little stubby doors, £1200 so you don’t care, at all, about parking dents.  Big plus?  I could park the Panda underwater and it would start the next morning.

You say that but Lotus is like North Korea, it’s been around forever, everyone says its constantly on the urge of famine/implosion/political upheavel/total failure.  And yet, there it is, day after day, trotting out the same old shit and failing to completely fail.

It makes sense, but it’s still wild to think that the best selling vehicles in the U.S. are not sedans or crossovers, but body-on-frame pickup trucks.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG    My inner Toyota Fondler just splooshed.

I’m in.  When do we start?

It’s the way forward. What 2 have you got? I raced an AW11 for a few seasons and I’m building a 2zz tarmac rally roadster at the moment.  Because I’m an idiot and this isn’t a hobby, it’s a mental illness.

O_O

So buy one and don’t convert it.

America,

Also so they start next time.  Smart chargers on everything :)

A pity.  A few weeks ago and you could have had this one but its been snapped up.  One of the V6 Prodrive fettled ones :)

Series 1 Elise, yup

Yup, Brera.  :)  We’re huge fans of old Fiats and Alfas here.

So a £3 inlet manifold gasket went bad and was leaking coolant....

Completely agree.  And back when Group A rules were governing Group A.

F1 is the wrong series to compare costs. F1 is much faster and has free development.