Why hasnt there been an Elise based kit car?

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:15 am

Think about it... they did it with the pontiac fiero thingy..

Perfect chassis as a base. And if it looked good and the price/quality was reasonable you would have a viable alternative for rebuilding accident damaged cars.

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:25 am

There is... it's called the S2

thinfourth · Post by **thinfourth** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:46 am

I thought it was the Vx220?

Seriously a kit car is normally a load of plastic stuck on a chassis which sounds like well an elise

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:52 am

How about this then...

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:52 am

How about this then...

GregR · Post by **GregR** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:04 pm

John, have you got too much time on your hands today??

Why make an elise kit car? It virtually already is!

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:16 pm

[quote="GregR"]John, have you got too much time on your hands today??
quote]

Yup... bored.... stuck in front of a screen all day..

offshorematt · Post by **offshorematt** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:28 pm

Thought I saw an awful Lotus 11 replica based on an Elise somewhere (Pistonheads?). Looked gash though...

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:24 pm

What started this off was looking at the price of the motor sport body kit on elise parts.... bloody expensive if you ask me...

Ive seen complete kit car kits for less than that.

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:33 pm

John Reid wrote:What started this off was looking at the price of the motor sport body kit on elise parts.... bloody expensive if you ask me...

Ive seen complete kit car kits for less than that.

Know where you are coming from my ears pricked up when you mentioned the motorsport kit, it does look kinda cool. but it is a little bit pricey

but look what lotus ended up with when they tried to improve on the S1.... the S2! just doesn't cut it:P

jj · Post by jj » Wed Sep 26, 2007 3:36 pm

BiggestNizzy wrote:but look what lotus ended up with when they tried to improve on the S1.... the S2! just doesn't cut it:P

Wrong! They made this

The s2 is a good looking car, and definately better designed than the S1 - far fewer annoying faults.

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 4:00 pm

jj wrote:
BiggestNizzy wrote:but look what lotus ended up with when they tried to improve on the S1.... the S2! just doesn't cut it:P

Wrong! They made this

The s2 is a good looking car, and definately better designed than the S1 - far fewer annoying faults.

YOUR NOT WRONG.... <BG>

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:28 pm

Bottom line...........

The S1 will be a classic, the S2 never will be.

The best looking car, if you can live with a tin top, was the S1 Exige.

End of discussion.

tut

tut · Post by **tut** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:33 pm

ps that yellow thing is slab sided crap.

tut

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Wed Sep 26, 2007 9:46 pm