[biffster10]

I've been using my Elise as a daily driver for almost 4 months now. Here are my observations:

• LOTS of attention. About 20% of times at malls/restaurants/etc there is somone taking a picture or walking around my car when I get back to it. That creeped me out at first, but people are generally respectful and I've had no damage. People stare on the highway. People drive in your blind spots on the highway to have a better look. Kids/teens point or wave as I drive by. Women generally don't notice very often, if that is your purpose. Teen and pre-teen boys do... hopefully that is NOT your intention.
• Driveways have to be approached at a good angle to avoid scrapes to the lip.
• Avoid potholes at all costs! Easy to do since it is so agile.
• Police attention is there, but negligible. I have only been followed by one cop on the highway - he got behind a truck and kept peeking out to see if I had zoomed away yet. I also had an excited cop stop me as I was getting into my car and asked if it was a Lotus.
• The paint has proven to be durable. Someone managed to rub their bumper along my door and the plastic that transfered from the bumper just scraped right off without a scratch.
• For me, things that make this car more fun than stock (like Stage II exhaust and stiffened engine mounts) push the car over the top for a daily driver. The exhaust from the previous owner was gone in 4 days. The engine mounts are coming off this weekend. I'm looking forward to a smoother, quieter commute.
• Heating works just fine. With the coolant hoses running up the sills to the front, the cabin has a lot of ambient heat, which makes a warm day very hot very quickly. I've found the A/C to be quite good, but I need to use it way more than in other cars.
• The car fogs up quickly in the rain. You have to do your own defog mode - heat plus A/C.
• I've had no problems in the rain. The traction control rarely kicks in and its only sign is the light on the dash flickers. I haven't hit any deep puddles at speed so I can't say if it hydroplanes easily or not. No leaks with the hardtop.
• I have an issue with exhaust being drawn into the car with the windows open. Another member on here posted a fix, but I think that's a safety issue that the manufacturer should have to deal with.
• Gas mileage is good. I bet its the best fuel economy of any gasoline car that can do 0-60 in under 5 seconds. Even with heavy stop-start traffic and "spirited" driving when it clear, I'm averaging 32.5 MPG (UK), which is 27mpg (US) or 8.7 l/100km.
• 6th gear isn't tall enough for long highway drives. Wear earplugs or have good tunes to drown out the noise. I'm probably getting the Celica 6th gear that should drop it a few hundred revs on the highway. Mileage will also improve.
• My insurance is incredibly low. Maybe there haven't been many (any?) crashed in Canada yet, so there's no claims history. This in addition to the gas mileage, in my opinion, gives this car a pretty low cost of ownership. I'm expecting it to eat tires, though.

Good luck!
Tim