A&Q about Lotus
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When you wake up 3am in the morning for something to drink. But take the Elise out for a 30 minute ride. I've done this 4 times now.
John
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when a sign recommends you to take the turn/curve at 50mph... and you take it at 110mph...
simple math: X=recommended speed, Y=your speed, Z=a few more wont' hurt
2X + Z = Y
or a visual representation
2 + = but becareful or you may and be like but it's ok cuz
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Originally Posted by bluejae
2 + = but be careful or you may and be like
Sounds like Cody to me....
xtn
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Originally Posted by Spudboy
What time should I pick you up?
I don't think that's what I meant
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When you drive 340 miles from Rochester, NY to Port Chester, NY so HRM can "carry out" your 1k service.
When you tell people its a Lotus and then they ask who makes it
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When you think "spare tire" refers to the set of Hoosiers you keep in the garage for track days.
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I think about this everytime I pass a truck
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
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When other people say, "Well, you can't take long trips in it, theres nowhere to store your stuff." Which is responded with, "oh, just ship it" and they laugh like you were joking when your dead serious.
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Originally Posted by nugg_dawg
When you wake up 3am in the morning for something to drink. But take the Elise out for a 30 minute ride. I've done this 4 times now.
John
OMG nugg_dawg! It's a quarter-to-three, and I just put down a bottle of water to do the same thing. Then I opened the door to the garage to see the stupid Impala rental car.... I forgot my Elise was in the shop getting a new rear clam!!!
I'm so depressed.... Sombody come pick me up!
-Michael
'05 Nightfall Blue
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When your rear window shatters spontaneouly behind you with a loud bang, and you're not surprised because you remember reading a thread about that on ET
luke
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Originally Posted by sechsgang
you look up to miatas
No, no, NO! Elise drivers look up at Miatas. We don't look up to them.
Originally Posted by purplepeopleeater
when you notice your ordering a British vodka for your martinis
Naw! You order Boodles gin. Vodka doesn't make martinis.
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
Now this I have actually done, though not in an Elise...and not on the highway. I drove my second Europa (a '71 S.2) inder a semi trailer to get out of the parking lot at my workplace so I could run to get lunch for everyone else who was trapped by the d@mn truck. Cleared by less than a knuckle's width (cleared a little more with a load of food in the passenger seat on the way back).
I'm pretty sure that I've seen at least one semi that the Elise would clear -- just not mine...
Thanks for the memory, Jon.
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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?
I am still angry at myself for the one time I bottomed out and it was over a month ago. I refuse to look at the bottom of the clam now when I wash it.
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Originally Posted by swistun
When your rear window shatters spontaneouly behind you with a loud bang, and you're not surprised because you remember reading a thread about that on ET
luke
LOL, was that my thread you're referring to?
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Originally Posted by lotusport
No, no, NO! Elise drivers look up at Miatas. We don't look up to them.
Naw! You order Boodles gin. Vodka doesn't make martinis.
Now this I have actually done, though not in an Elise...and not on the highway. I drove my second Europa (a '71 S.2) inder a semi trailer to get out of the parking lot at my workplace so I could run to get lunch for everyone else who was trapped by the d@mn truck. Cleared by less than a knuckle's width (cleared a little more with a load of food in the passenger seat on the way back).
I'm pretty sure that I've seen at least one semi that the Elise would clear -- just not mine...
Thanks for the memory, Jon.
when owners think they are the GOD of grammar and storm on people of lesser stature...
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...you look at the reflection of your car in the baby moon hubcaps of semis as you pass by. (looks just like my avatar for those who haven't tried it yet)
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Originally Posted by sechsgang
when owners think they are the GOD of grammar and storm on people of lesser stature...
Nah, no gods or lesser people here. All ETers are good people and usually have fun here.
OTOH, I am an expert on martinis...
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Originally Posted by NCZ06
LOL, was that my thread you're referring to?
Yes. I'm all over your thread. I'm pursuing having the warranty cover it, as my softtop was ON at the time...
luke
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-- When you mimic the car's exhaust note in the shower, try your tune at other performance car exhausts, and then revert back to the Elise's burble. Every shower.
-- When you overrev the vacation rental car's engine waiting for a second cam to kick in.
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WHEN Your left leg burns from that hot coolant..
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Originally Posted by hans
-- When you mimic the car's exhaust note in the shower, try your tune at other performance car exhausts, and then revert back to the Elise's burble. Every shower.
-- When you overrev the vacation rental car's engine waiting for a second cam to kick in.
-- when the girl with you in the shower decides shes had enough and leaves... you continue the exahust note, happy that the car will now weigh less the next time you take it out