:-)

if you really want I'll make & post that video. IMHO no worse getting out vs. in.

I am 50 and fat. Practice a dozen times and it becomes easy.

6' 4" friends fit in my Elise mo problem. Even with the roof on.

(For left hand drive Federal Elise) right leg in, sit on door sill, right hand on passeger seat, fold body in half to swoop your head in, slide buttocks into driver's seat (being sure not to catch a belt loop on the door latch... as happens frequently causing the loop to rip off instantly under the forces applied),…

poppycock! I am a 6-foot chubby man. No problem getting into an Elise. Proof:

this was a plain vanilla article.... Until the puffalmps entered the picture. Then it became awesome!

Nah. Mr. Regular was implying that Lehigh grads might drive an S4 which is maybe flattering. Unless you drive an A8; then the S4 is a peasant car :-)

10 seconds in... HEY! What does Mr. Regular have against Lehigh University? Alma mater to Regular Car gus like Lee Iacocca an Roger Penske...

father of two here. Best car for a new parent? Any car with a back seat. Get what you like and can afford and don't obsess over it. When we had our first kid, my wife drove a 2-door. Infants in car seats don't need much legroom, it turns out :-). Putting the kid in the seat was no big deal.

I drove a 1986 Pininfarina (Fiat) Spyder 2000 through MANY snowstorms. And slid it into snow banks. And pushed it out of snow banks. And affixed chains to it's rear wheels.,, it was my only car, and it was a part-time ski instructor. It worked reasonably well, though when temperatures went below zero F, the dissimilar…

Me. Volvo XC70. Need a new one, and would prefer 2WD rather than AWD on the next go-around.

Wow! Imagine the horror! That poor bastard got himself turned into a 1982 Trans-Am -(

My brother said it well: "A Volvo is for someone who could afford a Mercedes, but doesn't want to be seen as being rich." Hence the appeal to liberals. That demographic, and being the only decent station wagon sold in America is more than enough to build the kind of volume that Volvo's niche strategy would need to…

Huh? You have no idea. Toyota motor, aluminum tub. Fiberglass body, and common ricer brakes and electricals, the Elise/Exige is startlingly reliable. Three years and zero mechanical problems for me.

Huh? You have no idea. Toyota motor, aluminum tub. Fiberglass body, and common ricer brakes and electricals, the Elise/Exige is startlingly reliable. Three years and zero mechanical problems for me.

+1 on this.

Mature? Elegant? You mean "geezer"

"Elise's easily removable soft top"... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHaHaHaHaHaHahahahaaaaaaaaaa! Let me tell you about putting it back on in a hailstorm outside Watkins Glen :-)

Me too! Wife needs a new wagon, and she says "absolutely no AWD" (the AWD gas mileage hit on the XC70 is killing us). The only decent non-AWD wagon left is the V60.