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How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 5:20 pm
by haggis catcher
I have now had my S1 Elise for ten years now, and was wondering if any SE members had their car for longer?
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 5:51 pm
by woody
10.5 here.
There are a few who've owned theirs longer, Campbell for a start.
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 6:12 pm
by ScottJ-PS
Had my Elam M100 for 10.5 years and now my Elise for 7 weeks .
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 7:02 pm
by tut
17 years for Campbell.
tut
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:09 pm
by BiggestNizzy
10 years, I bought it as a mid life crisis (I was about to turn 30) and I am 40 in 3 weeks.
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:35 pm
by Stu160
14 1/2 years for me.
Have had 5 others I that time as well, but the 160 has been has stood the test of time.
looks, and drives as good today as it did the day I bought it.
Stu
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 8:40 pm
by pete
Stu160 wrote: and drives as good today as it did the day I bought it.
Stu
Damn with faint praise.
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:14 pm
by campbell
My PA has answered.
Plus 18 mths for our Evora.
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:17 pm
by 111Robin
18 1/2 years for my S1
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 9:59 pm
by tut
That is not going to be beaten Robin.
20 years is max if you had bought one of the first in '96.
tut
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:16 pm
by SAJ
No where near as long as most of the other guys, but had the Europa for 3 years, the Evora NA for a month and the Evora S for nearly 3.5 years but I've done about 70,000 miles between them all so would be interested to see how that compares with the rest.
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 10:26 pm
by 111Robin
tut wrote:That is not going to be beaten Robin.
20 years is max if you had bought one of the first in '96.
tut
Order was placed Feb 97, delivered 12 months later. I tend to hang on to my stuff, two of the Minis have been 25 years plus in the garage...... I guess they're keepers !
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:05 pm
by j2 lot
1989 to present : Excel, 2 SE Elans, 2Elise S1s, 2 S2s, Europa, 2 Evoras.
In the same time frame I think we have had about 20 non Lotus cars too ....
At 5 years the Europa has been the longest I have owned a car.
Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:36 pm
by campbell
114k miles on the Elise. Added 17k miles to the Evora. Almost all of that grand total with a smile on my face.
Except for the first few miles after BollardGate, France, of course, Tut...
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Re: How long have you had your Lotus
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2016 11:37 pm
by mik
Approaching 3- months now.
What do I win?
