If this project is well built and runs then $27k is a great price.

NOOOOOO, get your VAG away from my Lotus!!!

You sir, take life too seriously.

To the 5,000,000 people who are about to post this: The Hennessy Venom GT is NOT a Lotus Elise. You're welcome, now carry on with your lives.

My father took delivery of a car on friday! Not because it was labor day weekend, we've been trying to buy the car for two months...

"steering feel that is as good as any car I've driven" - You need to drive more cars. Try something that isn't a souless people mover.

50K? Crack pipe.

I lived with a Lotus Elise for a week after a very unlikely series of events, and this is what I took away from it and why I voted Crack Pipe on this deal:

- You never actually own a Lotus Elise, you live with it. This means you learn to love its high points and accept its faults, and there are a lot of faults, but the…

I'm guessing you are one of those guys that lives in an apartment and owns no tools (aside from your 15 piece wal-mart tool kit)

Believe it or not, there are those of us out there with more skills than you can imagine yourself having.

I also love the "costs $1000 more than all the other ones on the market because it's got a rebuilt transmission."

Uh, clearly the Nissan Murano Cross Cabriolet?

Twenty years in the business I have some stories. From customers that have had Fed tracking devices on their cars, left guns in the trunks of loaner cars then never picked them up when we find them, customers who called the cops on us for "ripping them off", us having to repossess our own service loaners, giant bricks…

Which one do you want to hear?

This gap does not look like it's supposed to be there.

Except the fact the M-Sport package comes with a few other niceties, like sports seats, M steering wheel, Aero Kit, Leather seats and better wheels (granted it's a$3k option)... Same with F-Sport.

Meh! easy fix

Now is a good time to bring up my issue with Jessi Lang: http://jalopnik.com/5957722/motor-…

It was actually much less than what Doug paid, but I have a higher deductible (it's fairly customizable) 2006 w/ 43k miles when I bought it. I paid for 75k miles of coverage. I've used it thus far to replace a bad driver's side seat motor and a comfort access sensor that was messing with the keyless entry. What…

It's a girl's car.