A&Q about Lotus
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Originally Posted by zen garage
No insurance will be sold on the Lotus
Ding, ding, ding, ding. You wreck it, you bought it.
Good old Budget...typical.
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Originally Posted by LARRY22331
And why you shouldn't be on Elisetalk.
Huh?
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Originally Posted by RegGuy
Ding, ding, ding, ding. You wreck it, you bought it.
Good old Budget...typical.
Reg, you obviously know everything about the car rental business. Especially how it functions in Illinois. I am quite sure you are aware of Illinois House Bill 0844, more commonly known as the Renters Financial Responsibility and Protection Act.
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Originally Posted by zen garage
Reg, you obviously know everything about the car rental business. Especially how it functions in Illinois. I am quite sure you are aware of Illinois House Bill 0844, more commonly known as the Renters Financial Responsibility and Protection Act.
No, I know nothing about that. I do know that renting a car like the Elise is fraught with problems and that Budget is a company I wouldn't deal with again. I travel a great deal and Budget WAS the company I used for 15 years or more. They left me sitting in an airport jerking me around. I have no doubt they'd jerk around a poor schmuck that rented an Elise and totalled it with no insurance.
I don't plan on saying any more on this subject as I don't plan on getting banned from this site, but this sounds like a bad idea.
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Originally Posted by LARRY22331
The point is, that at certain times the RENTER can't see out of the car window. The RENTER has no idea how to drive the car in the first place. The RENTER doesn't realize that if he blinks for but a moment in this car he will hit something.
Because I'm sure you were an expert elise driver on the day you took your car home from the dealer.
Originally Posted by LARRY22331
I am not an idiot. You don't know me so watch your mouth.
Yet before Zen can even respond, Larry says this in two seperate posts. You don't know him, do you? Yet you are already judging and running your mouth.
Originally Posted by LARRY22331
They should carry a towel...but they won't.
Originally Posted by LARRY22331
I hope he will hear what we have been saying to him, but he won't.
Originally Posted by LARRY22331
Why don't you go post on Mustang talk...you don't know anything about nice sports cars.
lol, mustang insults. Mustangs are actually decent cars for the money, but thats beside the point.
Originally Posted by LARRY22331
These cars are very dangerous to the new user - but this car rental owner believes and was just quoted as saying "IT IS JUST A CAR."
They are just car, really nice cars, but cars nonetheless.
Originally Posted by LARRY22331
A vendor's thread?
That's B.S. and you know it.
Since when is this a vendor's forum at all?
Because the people who sell FI kits, exhausts, headers, et al never post here at all (can't find the rolling eyes smiley)
Originally Posted by LARRY22331
I love this car.
2500 a year are built.
And to see them broken all over town so he can make a buck?
I love the elise too, but 2500 isn't so small of a production number per year. Just look at all the elises that are still sitting on dealer lots. I drive by Ascot every day and I don't think I have ever seen less than 6 elises/exiges in the lot. Enzos are true examples of cars that shouldn't be rented. 400 cars made ever and all pre-sold is something rare. 2500 per year and not all sold isn't.
Don't get me wrong, I think these cars are very nice and should be treated with care, but if someone wants to rent one, they can do whatever the hell they want with it.
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Originally Posted by LARRY22331
Well, you are the exception. There are a billion posts about windows fogging on Elisetalk.
I don't really have the sunlight fogging/outgassing problems, but when raining I've certainly had my windshield fog up with normal condensation within seconds of getting in the car. The AC vented at the windshield clears that up pretty fast. The first time I had the problem I left the AC blasting on the windshield and ironically it made it so cold that it started fogging up on the outside between wiper strokes -- at least I'm pretty sure that's what was happening. So I usually switch the AC on and off to find the right windshield temperature balance, then switch to vending it at the side windows to clear those up, and by this point things are usually stable and will stay clear all around.
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Originally Posted by LARRY22331
The point is, that at certain times the RENTER can't see out of the car window. The RENTER has no idea how to drive the car in the first place. The RENTER doesn't realize that if he blinks for but a moment in this car he will hit something.
I think that the RENTER will sign his papers and be sent merrily on his way without ANY warning about ANYTHING.
It's dangerous and foolish to RENT this car.
Ironically this appears to have happened to you, as an OWNER. Being a renter does not automatically make one one a moron behind the wheel, nor does being an owner make one an expert.
>New Elise Owners! You Must Read This Re: Front End Damage Control
>
>To all Elise owners: There is one thing the dealers fail to tell us when we
>buy an Elise. If you pull into a parking spot with a concrete bumper (as in
>most parking lots) DO NOT try to pull all the way up! DO NOT put your
>front tires on the concrete bumper! You will scrape the bottom of your car
>and potentially the front of your car! This is for real - it happened to me
>and other owners. ALso, when you back out of a driveway, do not go off
>the curb ever! The front of your car will slam back down on the curb and
>be damaged. It takes three weeks to order touch up paint from England,
>you can get it at the parts department. BE CAREFUL!!
>
>Larry
>2005 Yellow Elise
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I think Larry is a little boy. He has no idea of what a supercar is. He may think an Elsie is the top of the heap, but he is so wrong. My Miata is so much of a better car.....and at a lot less money. I drive my Miata 90% of the time and my Viper the other 10%. Both could wear his Elsie out without a doubt.
Zen Garage is a good guy and if anyone doubts it try him out in Chi Town. I challenge Larry (the loser) to bring his little boy Elise anywhere and I will meet him and wear his gay ass out.
The Elise is a good rental car because it is so much of a pile of ****e. I challange any gay boy out there to meet me anywhere in the USA and try to beat me in my Miata or my Viper.
Larry sucks the Devil.
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Looks like Larry has himself some fan club
Larry, you need to come to the LA dinner next week.
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Go Oregon Ducks!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by mad0953
I think Larry is a little boy. He has no idea of what a supercar is. He may think an Elsie is the top of the heap, but he is so wrong. My Miata is so much of a better car.....and at a lot less money. I drive my Miata 90% of the time and my Viper the other 10%. Both could wear his Elsie out without a doubt.
Zen Garage is a good guy and if anyone doubts it try him out in Chi Town. I challenge Larry (the loser) to bring his little boy Elise anywhere and I will meet him and wear his gay ass out.
The Elise is a good rental car because it is so much of a pile of ****e. I challange any gay boy out there to meet me anywhere in the USA and try to beat me in my Miata or my Viper.
Larry sucks the Devil.
Alt posts suck.
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Originally Posted by mad0953
I think Larry is a little boy. He has no idea of what a supercar is. He may think an Elsie is the top of the heap, but he is so wrong. My Miata is so much of a better car.....and at a lot less money. I drive my Miata 90% of the time and my Viper the other 10%. Both could wear his Elsie out without a doubt.
Zen Garage is a good guy and if anyone doubts it try him out in Chi Town. I challenge Larry (the loser) to bring his little boy Elise anywhere and I will meet him and wear his gay ass out.
The Elise is a good rental car because it is so much of a pile of ****e. I challange any gay boy out there to meet me anywhere in the USA and try to beat me in my Miata or my Viper.
Larry sucks the Devil.
Sounds to me that you are really into gay ass.
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Bring on your Elise big boy!!!! Fooled by advertisement!!!
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Bring on your whip pianomaniac. Step up to the plate.
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Sorry, I'm not gay!
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weak
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I'll meet you anywhere.
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Originally Posted by mad0953
I'll meet you anywhere.
Is that a threat?
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No, a challenge. Are you man enough to take me up on it? I'll eat that Elise alive. With the Miata.
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What the f**k is happening to this place?