Newbie mistakes

Newbie mistakes

Common First time Elise owner mistakes.....

Garage Jewelry

Cars with low mileage are often not all they are 'cracked' up to be, quite often they will have old tyres, they go 'off' after a few years and turn to stone (not good for handling).

Also servicing is often over looked, yes it is every XX miles OR YEAR and cambelts are every 4 years .

Tracked Cars

Tracked cars are not to be avoided when looking for that 'first' Elise, these cars normally receive a better 'upkeep' then the average road car and quite often have practical upgrades (e.g upgraded brakes)

BHP!!!

The Elise is a Light weight sports car, so less BHP is not always slower.

• Current Toyota MR2 = 137bhp/ton

• Elise S2 135R = 178bhp/ton

A standard S1 with only 118bhp was something like 165bhp/ton. every single Elise will do the 0-60 sprint in under 6 seconds.

You need to forget about peak bhp, it means nothing. If there's a figure you was to think about, then its your power to weight ratio - bhp/ton, try looking at 0-100 times instead of 0-60 times as that is where you'll see a big difference.

How often do you ever do a standing start? Me? never, It's usually when you come off a roundabout and accelerate from 40mph.

The 0-60 figure doesn't tell you anything about real world performance.

Also don't forget that the Elise is not built for outright straight line power, if this is something you lust get an airplane. (C) Kevin Ritson.