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Originally Posted by Lotus222
First time poster here. Nice to see that you guys actually like Lotus and what they are doing. Most people don't understand the company or their cars. Anyways, I have a new Elise... or had rather. Hopefully I will get it back soon enough. I took my car to the nearest dealer for the first service on the car, and the dealer scratched my car all to hell. They wanted me to put it on my insurance, so I am being forced to sue  . The kicker is, I can't take my car home until its settled.
Back to the GT topic though - With the Elise being so small and spartain, I think the Lotus GT will be a better car for the average american (who can afford it). I also heard from somewhere that lotus is working on the suspension and other features in the nissan GT-R. I don't know how true that is though.
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Hey Whit, welcome to JW, hope you enjoy it here
As for your car, that's terrible that the dealer made such a mess out of it and that you're being forced into legal action against them. It's a wonderful little car and why the hell someone would want to damage it is beyond me. Personally, I'm a fan of the sort of spartan Elise. I'm sure the GT will be a lovely drive as well, but to my eyes and sensibilities the best closed Lotus for a long time are the Series 1 and 2 Exiges and of course the Sport Exige, but I doubt we'll see those anytime soon.
It just occurred to me, since the makers of the 2.0L RST-V8 that's been fitted to a Caterham 7 are planning to drop one into an Elise, (that's 340-plus bhp in an Elise!!!) why hasn't anyone fitted a rotary yet? I'm getting an RX8, why not drop that nice little 1.3L into it? Lighter, sounds wild, and I'm sure it'd be PDQ!!!
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