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picked up an exige yesterday - another new car thread.....

Post by jj » Sun Jul 15, 2007 9:59 pm

..... and I love it.

After a few phonecalls on Friday, a speedy and hassle-filled trip to the bank, a flight to Birmingham which was cancelled, another flight, and the 300 miles home, I have a new car. All inside 24hours of it going up for sale :D .

2000 S1 exige 190 in titanium

Story goes, I bought it from a dealer who took it in p/x against a subaru. The guy pulled a stunt and traded it in to them with it needing a rebuild, so the guys decided to get the work done and keep it as a toy. It had all the mechanicals overhauled and they both hated it (he thought I was nuts wanting to buy it :? :) ) so decided to sell it.

It is ridiculously noisy, it is lumpy, bumpy, my girlfriend hates it and I love it. It is so different to the S2 Exige I dont know where to start.

Anyway, a photo.

400 miles so far and its not blown up, so quite happy :lol:

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Post by ExigeKen » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:05 pm

Nice work JJ - hope to see it in the flesh soon. Enjoy :drive :thumbsup
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Post by dezzy » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:09 pm

Nice one JJ. Good to see you back in a Lotus. :thumbsup

It looks really mean. Damn cool car! 8) :twisted:

Will look out for you. If you're taking it to work this week, let me know . . . would like to pop round at lunchtime for a wee look!
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Post by jj » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:11 pm

Noticed on the motorway coming home at a steady 90ish tuts people moved out of the way pretty sharpish - I guess they do look pretty mean from the front.

I am going to be putting the a048s on it and selling the compomotives as they need adapters to fit it seems and I rather like the standard wheels.
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Post by jj » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:13 pm

NOOPS 160 wrote:Nice wheels sir , back to the S1 fold :wink:
Indeed, but having owned a couple of each now I am in a position to provide an unbiased viewpoint :lol:
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Post by ed » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:18 pm

Nice one matey! :thumbsup
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Post by jj » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:21 pm

shooomer wrote:Looks great jj
I have some front number plate brackets for S1 Exige if you need one
Cheers Paul,
It has a bit of aluminium fixed to the front splitter that the plate was attached to, but I removed it before I left birmingham for obvious reasons of tuttage on the way home :wink:

It also has a pretty pimped out red alcantara interior which I love but its definately a love hate thing I think :lol:
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Post by Digital » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:28 pm

That looks lovely, the colur really suits the S1 8)

Will be interested to hear your views on the difference between S1 and S2 Exiges :)

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Post by Clarkie » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:31 pm

JJ,

Looks the biz mate 8) :thumbsup

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Post by kenny » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:47 pm

I guessed right :roll: :P Hope to see it on track soon.
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Post by jj » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:08 pm

kenny wrote:I guessed right :roll: :P Hope to see it on track soon.
Medal is in the post :lol:

Will be up at KH asap, probably at a evening event.

As for the differences between s1 + s2, I used to read folk going on about how the s2 is soft etc in comparison and think they were talking pish, but its true, both are awesome cars in their own right. I think each lotus has some flaws, and each one has its best bits.

S2 Exige reliability +interior, s1 exige noise + feel, a/c from S2, s1 exige looks, and you`d have a neat car.
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Post by Victor Meldrew » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:36 pm

hubba hubba.. :lol:
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Post by woody » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:28 am

ace :thumbsup absolutely love it, great colour as well!
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Post by Dominic » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:45 am

woody wrote:ace :thumbsup absolutely love it, great colour as well!
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Looks fantastic in titanium. 8)

The front tyres look too narrow for the wheels? I guess you'll be changing them with the other alloys.
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Post by StiflerMR2 » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:59 am

DO WANT!!!!
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