I have zero confidence in the Elise at the moment!

But that's coming from 3.5 years of S2000 ownership, after which I was confident in throwing it into a corner, wet or dry.

Give me a few months and I'll be some way there in the Elise.

Certainly after the April track day at Rockingham, an Andy Walsh day and a few hoons in the dry, I am sure I'll be up to speed!

 

I was so confident immediately in the Elise,but I bought mine in summer. I went on a meet after 7 days and bruised the ego of their resident driving god by overtaking him when we were driving in anger on one of my favourite roads.

The S2K really f**ked me up though due to its pathetic standing water efforts. For months whenever it rained I tensed up and got all worried every time I hit standing water as I expected the Elise to do the same arse shaking dance that the S did. It never happened.

A couple of weeks in this weather and you'll be back to your old ways. And then some.

 

Wahey the clan
Ralster not sideways in the truck matey save it for mud lots more fun! Hayley took my pajero round a wet motorcross track oh what fun we have! was also fun on the bike but it had to be done was so muddy that we had giant mud tyres and no traction!!!

who needs huge horsepower?? Ok I do but thats not the point!!!

I bloody Love you!

 

I have to say I haven't got my head around the steering in the Elise - I just feel like the front tyres are skating over the road and I could wave my arms around with nothing happening Exige felt a lot more planted. Just can't seem to get used to it !

Back on the original topic; when the S got written off about 2-3 years ago I got a brand new Z4 as a courtesy car (69 miles on the clock when it was delivered) on the Tuesday. On the Thursday we had to go to a funeral and some woman in a Ka thought undertaking in a bus lane was a good idea when we were turning left into the crematorium

Cue a phone call from the courtesy company wondering why the car was on a trailer (Tracker had notified them), several grand's worth of damage, me taped to a backboard and stuck in a cubicle somewhere in Yorkshire (?), and the car only about 3 days old

 

Back off topic

 

ok I'll say it.

That was a bloody sturdy jack, very careless to leave it lying in the middle of the road though

 

 

on topic, it wasn't mine but when I was 19 getting my fiat punto sporting serviced they didn't have any courtesy cars so gave me one from the shared alfa dealers. A rather nice 2lr alfa 156 sportwagen which was quite a big step up in performance. Had it for most of the day tooling around and thought i'd take it back the long way turning onto random back roads I didn't know. Locked up on some gravel down a single track road and planted it into a stone dyke, remember thinking it would be not too bad till I saw the top part of the wall falling forward to cover the bonnet. Was still drivable so took it back and picked up my freshly cleaned fiat looking a bit sheepish when I gave back the keys and asked to speak to the service manager lol.

 

Well Elise is written off, bought myself a 306 hdi today (well pxed my gixxer) and going to buy a Griffith 500 for weekends!!

 

mike you are the most fickle person Ive ever know - how many minutes had you owned that bike?