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03-25-2008, 05:36 AM
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03-27-2008, 03:33 AM
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The Lotus is a good choose for a sunny Sunday fun car As much as I like Bimmers and Porsche I drive a Front load Garbage truck around Vancouver all day and you cant good more then a block with out seeing one They are Belly button cars ( every bodys got one ) The Lotus is a purists car all performance built to do one thing and do it well
Good luck with it Oh and by the way I have seen a total of 3 differant lotus's in Vancouver I know there is more then that around you just doint see them
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03-27-2008, 02:25 PM
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Unless your a small man or a women I would skip the lotus not just for size but it looks rediculus seeing a guy driving such a femanine car.
I would go for the NISSAN GTR it would destroy any car mentioned in this thread plus most other cars out there. 
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03-27-2008, 02:42 PM
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The GTR is a nice car and will most likely beat the Lotus in a straight line, and I'm sure a GTR handles fairly well, but there is no way a stock GTR will outhandle a stock Lotus.
I still vote for an Aerial Atom though! Or buy and old 1st or 2nd generation miata and modify it (if you are into that).
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03-27-2008, 03:52 PM
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That thing may be virtually as quick as a 911 Turbo but man it's fugly!
Give me an Elise R. Almost as quick in a straight line (who only drives in straight lines?), much better handling & looks so much better. oh & being a 5' 8" asian dude, an Elise is no problem  . .
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03-27-2008, 04:56 PM
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Im not sure where you guys get your info but the Nissan GTR has one of the best times on the nurburgring track in germany, and thats not a straight line. Beating out million dollar cars. Faster then the porche 911 turbo and carrera GT on straight and winding tracks.
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03-27-2008, 05:52 PM
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Dont want this to become a slagging match over which car is better than which... I love the GTR (I've owned an R32 and driven R33's & R34's) & I never said it's only good in straight lines. As regards 'info' on lap times... the GTR is actually slower than a Carrera GT around the 'Ring. 7:28 - Porsche Carrera GT (official factory time 7:32) 7:38 - 2009 Nissan GTR 7:40 - Porsche 997 Turbo 8:32 - Porsche Boxster S 8:42 - Lotus Exige Don't forget that one of the prime objectives of the GTR development team was to beat the 911 Turbo around the Nurburgring. They achived that goal but, at what cost? The car is stupendously fast, handles well (but not as well as a Lotus!) and is reasonably cheap for the performance (approx. $80k) - but it's heavy (near 4000lbs), soul-less (drives like a Playstation game - many reasons for this) and at the end of the day, looks damned ugly! Put it on a tighter track (that is more typical of the kind of tracks you & me would drive around) and the GTR would start to become ponderous, heavy & underbraked compared to 'trackday' cars such as Elise & Exige. The slower lap time around the 'Ring is due to the Lotus hitting it's rev limiter on the straights (small, low horse power engine). Quote:
Let's put it this way... Some people prefer to knock down a house with a wrecking ball & some would prefer a small, well placed explosive charge. .
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03-27-2008, 07:32 PM
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Did you ever have a look at the T-rex......not many of them around....fast and only fair weather players.....
http://www.t-rexvehicles.com
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03-28-2008, 12:02 AM
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Ok, so I'm not a small guy, about 6 feet and the size of a football player but I'm willing to drop 50 lbs just so I can fit in this car. I figure if I could fit inside my 350Z I'm pretty sure I could squeeze into a Lotus. As for the chick car comment, since when was a streetable race car a chick car  .
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