Another Newbie (Lanarkshire) - Few pics of current Jalopy

[s29ttc]

enough of the gayity - no roof, windscreen, doors, windows, abs or talent masking SC here, just an Atom

S2's - better built, better daily driver, easy car to learn to track, very controllable on the limit, abs

S1's- rarer, louder, more extreme, engine rebuilds and hgf issues may follow, but they are meant for the track

Both awesome cars though. I love them both

Tough call

Yeah hahhaa as much as I would love an atom its not very practical haha!

Yeah the S2 definately sound like the choice for me as I am jumping from a 1.4 diesel engine to this and also will need to be practical as a daily driver incase I need to pap the peugeot!

[Andy G]

I did 18000 miles in my 111r in just over a year - solid commuting bus

[Shug]

& I managed 50K over 2 years when I was using the "unreliable Rover powered" S1 as everyday transport.

It only started eating itself after tuning... Although this engine now has about 40K on it and still doesn't use a drop of oil, despite chucking out 100 bhp/litre for the last 15K or so...

[Andy G]

& I managed 50K over 2 years when I was using the "unreliable Rover powered" S1 as everyday transport.

It only started eating itself after tuning... Although this engine now has about 40K on it and still doesn't use a drop of oil, despite chucking out 100 bhp/litre for the last 15K or so...

Unlike the last one which used more oil than fuel at the end of the reign

[s29ttc]

I did 18000 miles in my 111r in just over a year - solid commuting bus

Yeah need to be, I have had my peugeot 2 years bought with 4,000 on the clock now sitting at 51,000. My 1st car was brought as new with 6 miles on clock. 1 year 10 mths later it was sold with 47,500miles on it! haha I like to drive about thats why I want to keep the peugeot which can rack the miles up and leave the exige for the wknd and fun to keep millege down on it a bit.

What is the 111r was that the toyota elise or exige.

See I am sort of the primary 1 pupil on here not got a dan doo about all these terms yet! Ill get there in the end!

[Shug]

I did 18000 miles in my 111r in just over a year - solid commuting bus

Yeah need to be, I have had my peugeot 2 years bought with 4,000 on the clock now sitting at 51,000. My 1st car was brought as new with 6 miles on clock. 1 year 10 mths later it was sold with 47,500miles on it! haha I like to drive about thats why I want to keep the peugeot which can rack the miles up and leave the exige for the wknd and fun to keep millege down on it a bit.

What is the 111r was that the toyota elise or exige.

See I am sort of the primary 1 pupil on here not got a dan doo about all these terms yet! Ill get there in the end!

http://www.elises.co.uk/

Great site to explain all the models & stuff. Invaluable reading for the noob

[s29ttc]

I did 18000 miles in my 111r in just over a year - solid commuting bus

Yeah need to be, I have had my peugeot 2 years bought with 4,000 on the clock now sitting at 51,000. My 1st car was brought as new with 6 miles on clock. 1 year 10 mths later it was sold with 47,500miles on it! haha I like to drive about thats why I want to keep the peugeot which can rack the miles up and leave the exige for the wknd and fun to keep millege down on it a bit.

What is the 111r was that the toyota elise or exige.

See I am sort of the primary 1 pupil on here not got a dan doo about all these terms yet! Ill get there in the end!

http://www.elises.co.uk/

Great site to explain all the models & stuff. Invaluable reading for the noob

Excellent (montgomery burns voice) I will get on that for a read! Thanks

Just be careful with the spelling of noob! Always 2 o's.

[steve_weegie]

Excellent (montgomery burns voice) I will get on that for a read! Thanks

Just be careful with the spelling of noob! Always 2 o's.

pwn'd! thats n00b actually

to SE btw

[s29ttc]

Excellent (montgomery burns voice) I will get on that for a read! Thanks

Just be careful with the spelling of noob! Always 2 o's.

pwn'd! thats n00b actually

to SE btw

Not quite up to date which the noob or n00b internet slang hahaha apolgies and thanks!

[g1zmo26]

Stuart

[AJT]

[Corranga]

Not quite up to date which the noob or n00b internet slang hahaha apolgies and thanks!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

You're amongst a rare breed I think, planning to buy a car, and signing up before getting one

I signed up after buying the car, and found it's previous owner

If you didn't go to SIDC and do some pax in a Lotus, might I suggest you re-think. They are pretty addictive things, and chances are, once you've sampled the passenger seat, you'll do all you can to get into the other seat!

I have an S1 Elise currently with head gasket failure and engine rebuilt kinda thing going on (original S1s are all Rovers, Elises and Exiges, as are many S2s...)

If you're not too taken by the performace aspect / want cheaper insurance, maybe you should consider an Elise. They look less silly with the roof off compared to the Exige, and would allow you to buy a lower performance car/cheaper insurance but still epic, and more importantly, it still leaves you something to aspire too

Chris

[Digital]

If you're up at Knockhill tomorrow I'd be happy to take you for a few laps in my car, looks like I'll be the only orange one there - the car that is, not my tan...

Not sure I would want to use mine every day, but a touring pack car with a quieter exhaust should be fine. Might be pricy to use all the time with tyres, brakes etc. though! There's a thread on SELOC about the cheap orange on on Autotrader, apparently it was dropped off a ramp...

Jamie

[s29ttc]

If you're up at Knockhill tomorrow I'd be happy to take you for a few laps in my car, looks like I'll be the only orange one there - the car that is, not my tan...

Not sure I would want to use mine every day, but a touring pack car with a quieter exhaust should be fine. Might be pricy to use all the time with tyres, brakes etc. though! There's a thread on SELOC about the cheap orange on on Autotrader, apparently it was dropped off a ramp...

Jamie

Deal hold you to that see you tomorrow

[grittle]

One more thought for you if you want something extreme (as per Shug's first post). Caterham. COULD be used every day - but I wouldn't want to - I'm too much of an old git.

I have a 1/4 share in one and access to an S2 Exige as well as the 111R, so if you want a look you would be very welcome........

I've not yet driven the Cat and the 111R back to back, having only bought the 111R a few weeks ago, but my guess is the Cat is a tad more of a drivers car. The Cat makes an incredible noise, but I need to take a break from driving it every hour or so to let my hearing recover! The pedal set up isn't as nice as the 111R though and no doubt you could do big miles in an Elise/Exige

Beauty of the Cat is they just don't depreciate (well much). We have an '02 SV (wide body, track) with the Rover 1.8 VVC engine (155bhp I remember) which has cost circa £22k and is worth £16k now. 25% in 6 years

PS. I worked for Weir Pumps (or as some of the white coats said 'Weird Pimps') many many years ago as an undergrad engineer. One session in the engineering office, another in the drawing office