A&Q about Lotus
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When in addition to your children you make sure to "Tuck-in" your car every night by checking on it just before you go to bed......otherwise you will never get to sleep!!
(Please don't tell me I'm the only one who does this, I can't believe someone has not posted it yet in this thread)
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Originally Posted by 2002 Sexterra
you drive on the highwy and think of trying to drive under them semi... with the top off and a bit of luck and the right truck... well u never know LOL
I'm just happy that I'm not the only one who thinks this.
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....when you drive your car on the track as it was intended and then when you submit a major warranty claim for a problem, your dealer is "obligated" to tell Lotus USA that you track your car and Lotus USA flags your car as a "tracked" vehicle and scrutinizes every single claim and even deny's service for major claims such as a 2nd gear synchro.
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Originally Posted by transio
- You try to find ways to run errands that don't involve getting in/out of the car.
Ahahah so true... I drove through a drive thru at Walgreens and asked them for a soda.
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when you show off the car to your boss who owns a new vette, he asks to sit in it and then gets tangled up like a pretzel
when you sit in the car at your final destination and you want to find a reason to be late to keep driving
when you trade cars in the middle of a bad day to beat everyone off the line
when you notice your ordering a British vodka for your martinis
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Your friends want to car pool (to the baseball game) but you decide to drive alone and pay $15 for parking.
John
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Originally Posted by Thomas Praetzel
When you were 21 years old, had an Elan, and not a single girl out there knew what the hell it
I didn't get my Elan until I was 22...
you have touring suspension <...>Thwack me, masochistic tendencies
You're sick...
WHEN: You first get your Elise and drive it to work for the first time - you spend half your day in the parking garage giving "tours" of the car to all your fellow workers. Even the ones that are not car people.
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When you stay angry for a week because you bottomed out on a driveway. Is that just me?
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Originally Posted by AgentTripleX
That's my favorite part of the date.
What time should I pick you up?
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Originally Posted by DSal
Ahahah so true... I drove through a drive thru at Walgreens and asked them for a soda.
Great idea... I going to add this to my list of unnecessry reason to take the Elise out.
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Originally Posted by sechsgang
you look up to miatas
Or in my case the miata is the car I take when I need some trunk space!
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Originally Posted by bmbjj
When you stay angry for a week because you bottomed out on a driveway. Is that just me?
This traumatizes me for months.
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When the worst part of your day is loading your car into the back of an enclosed trailer and shipping your car cross country instead of driving it.
When a friend 1000 miles away calls you to say he saw your car when he was loading his into the same 2 car car hauler!! It's that recognizable!
When your hot 6'4"+ neighbors want to try and get in and out of it. I talk to all of my neighbors down in the garage, they ignore the two ferrari's in the basement!
When "retail therapy" includes everything tasty that sector111 carries..
When you get out of tickets because the elise is just that cute.
When you wear said miniskirt and high heels on dates because you're the one driving!
PS. I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks about driving under semis!
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Originally Posted by Rachel
When you wear said miniskirt and high heels on date
You need not say more. Finally, after 92 post and 5 pages later, we're getting to the good stuff
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WHEN you learn to mind-trick unsuspecting kids in riceburners and mustangs to proceed to speed like mad 500 yards ahead of you on open highways, thus employing them as an effective cop magnet / decoy...
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When you paint your kitchen British Racing Green (Ralph Lauren Paint)
When you are insulted when somebody asks "Why didn't you just buy a Corvette?"
When you get a puzzled look on other people's faces when you list all the things your car DOESN'T have and that makes you smile.
You toss around the name Colin Chapman like he was your next door neighbor.
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Originally Posted by M3racer
You toss around the name Colin Chapman like he was your next door neighbor.
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When you start to refer to the Audi TT as "the family car".
When someone asks you what the symbols in the Lotus badge mean, and you can actually decipher it for them.
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Your friends want to car pool (to the baseball game) but you decide to drive alone and pay $15 for parking.
Happened last night. A big group rented a van to go to the Phillies game, but I drove alone in the Elise was Green Day blasting out of the speakers while I was blasting down the highway. Good times!
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What's this concept called "car pool"?