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If you are going Size wins all the time then I guess youve chucked away most of your Lotus DNA if you follow that route. I always thought the great skill of Lotus was to do with 4 cylinders and great chassis what others needed 6 or 8 cylinders etc to do. Plus Lotus has that unique something special, and the new car will need it as well. It will need that magic bit that has obviously infected the people on this forum and other Lotus owners. The bit that makes you look at your Lotus as you hold the latest bit to fall off and think God I love that car and Im quite happy to spend more time and money than I should to keep it on the road. And I say this as just a mere Excel owner.
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Just bought a Garmin 310D. No probs so far. As previously mentioned nice and compact. If I am being fussy could do with a bit more volume but perhaps thats my hearing rather than the Garmin. Pics up satelites nice and quickly as well. UK maps are on the unit and europe on a disc. You get a 512 mg sd card which you can loadmost of the middle of europ on to. If you need the lot from almost Russa to Portugal you will need a 2 gig card.
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Got to aggree with Kimbers re the working for free. My wife is a nurse and they were all sent a letter a few months ago. It stated that to balance the books they either needed to sack people or would all the staff like to work a day for free!!! And the bit that got me was they didnt even seem to be deeply embarissed or humiliated by having to ask this of their staff.
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You may even be able to have the whole lot including the green and yellow on vynal then wrapped on to the car. You see a lot of SKY tv transits wrapped with all sorts of designs/ photos. Not sure if its posable but may be worth looking in to. Barming signs have just put vynals sign writing on one of my work cars and they have just brought a machine that prints your design on to the sheet of vynal which is then wrapped arround the object so no small bits to peal off, just one dirty great sheet. They are round the back of the prison, first road on the right off Boxley Rd.
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Well im not sure who else there is to have a go as the Conservatives already proved they cant do it either.
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3.30pm any weekday, all the roads near schools are fulll of parents in huge 4x4
cars with words on the side like 'warrior', 'thunder', 'Highlander' etc, etc...
Only a few of these people can drive or park. The thing is intended as a big tank
to protect their kiddie when they crash it. It's like road conkers, hit a saxo and your
kid is safe as your in a big tonka truck style thing.
If we had a kid, first thing i'd do is buy a real landrover (not a gaylander or a disco).
Just so when when some moron in a smaller or equally sized tank hits me, i win the
game of road conkers, or at least survive it.
A ford Ka should be a safe runaround, IF everyone had them.
But while idiots are buying tanks to protect themselves from their own stupidity,
i want one too, as the ford Ka won't survive these morons without looking like a
pie dish.
Spot on, that is exactly my view. I was reversed into by one mother in a Range Rover on the school run and she had to be told she had done it by a 3rd party as she didnt belive me. Bonnet and head lamp damaged ( just a mondeo so nothing to cry about). What you say re size wins is true, theres no contest. We do seem to be living in a as long as im alright I dont care about you society.
Didnt some one say the best way to ensure road safety was to have a great big spike coming out of the centre or every steering wheel and then see how every one drives.
I guess thats one of the good things about a Lotus , you are not as insulated from the road or whats going on around you.
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any tips on getting Georgie the hound to sleep longer than 4 hours .
Looooooooooooong walks before bed time, guess I could try that with my kids!!
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If you are willing to go out to places like Staplehurst and Marden which are 20ish mins from maidstone there are qiute a few industrial estates of all sizes that might be worth looking at plus plenty of farms with outbuildings etc.
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If you are still shopping between the two than I would say that it sounds like you really don't know what you want... Except something that looks like an Esprit. Keep researching to make sure you end up with what you really want.
You are correct to a degree in that statement. I come to this from having an 86 Excel SE for 7-8 years which is relatively simple and straight forward. So im not looking for something so complicated that it will have to spend months at a specialist and cost a fortune just to keep running properly. I prefer the Stevens shape but cant justify going as far along as the S4 etc which is why I chose the 2 models I did. I also wish to keep the excel so have got to limit my buget a little.
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Im thinking of buying a esprit turbo or esprit se (if I can find the right one). Is the major difference that the se is injected with a charge cooler, whilst the turbo has a carb. Any other differences I should know. Also any pointers I should look out for.
Many thanks
Malcolm
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My point re the nutter with a gun rather than a steak knife is that it ( the gun) allows the nutter to kill lots of people quickly rather than a few. Faced with someone on the rampage with a gun I guess most of us would run for the hills. If he has a knife the odds are a little better. You hear of few multiple stabbings resulting in multiple deaths. However due to the shear quantity of guns In the US I guess if I lived there I too would want one. Just hope it never gets that far over here.
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Im sure i read somewhere that there are far more gun deaths where its husband/wife or child/child or neighbours than good guy bad guy. I guess you only have to compare the US and UK to see its not a great idea to have guns about.
If you are a nutter it far easier to kill lots of people with a gun in a short time than your bare hands or a steak knife. The argument that if we all had guns some one could shoot the bad guy doesnt stand up. How many times does that happen the regular US multiple shootings we hear about. It always seems to be the police who kill them in the end or they run out of bullits and top themselves Its never a gun totting member of the public and the US is full of gun owners.
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I think the "special way" is by law you have to be CORGI registered to touch the gas supply. I think you have to have and keep a corgi certificate for work done to the supply ( like fitting a hob) which you will need when selling the house.
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Got to aggree. About 2 years ago I was at Headcorn airfield early one morning with my son when one of these was warming up and then took of. Quite incredible sound, smell and feeling. Unforgetable.Sorry but there is no, and I mean NO engine that sounds like this one! Gives me wood everytime I hear it!Nuff said
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One of the problems now is if we like it or not roads are really for cars lorrys and motorbikes, not horses, push bikes or people. I know the rules say otherwise and its wrong but shear quantity, speed and accelleration mean its just not safe to mix it. Perhaps cars make too little noise. Heaven help us when they are all electric!!
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I strongly suggest you stop making accusations that politicians on either side of the House in the UK are corrupt.
The jury is out on that one until the cash for honours police enquiry finishes.
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I may be wrong but I think the dolly sprint uses 1 cam shaft to run all 16 valves to the twin cams of the Lotus engine. So could it be its the 1st twin cam 16 valve mass produced?
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Whilst the G cars are the pure unadulterated line and look fantastic IMO the Stevens cars have weathered better over time. The G cars sharp wedge styling does shout 70s. I speak not as an Esprit owner but the next best thing an Excel SE. It has a great front end but they seem to have run out of money when they got to designing behind the doors towards the back end. At least they finished the job on both esprit designs. Now how many more years before the kids leave home and I can swap!!
Whatever Happened To The New Esprit
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Im not sugesting the new esprit should have 4 cylinders but it needs that bit of individual magic to make it stand out from the crowd. If every one else is going down the bigger and bigger route where does it stop. What is it that made someone buy a Lotus rather than a Porsche or Ferrari. I suppose there is a different answer to that depending on if you are buying new or 2nd hand. Is the buyer from new a different type of person to the 2nd or 3rd buyer a few years down the line. At the end of the day it has to be targeted at the 1st owner who if he/she can afford it new has different priorities and values to the later owners.