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06-29-2008, 05:49 PM
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Looking Down The Inside
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Teslas On The Road!
I was driving down Hwy 35 today and came up behind a Tesla! Stopped off at Alice's and there was another one! Apparently Tesla organized an event for potential owners with deposits to take the cars out for a spin.
Cell phone pics below, that's my elise leaning in to check out its new cousin. |
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06-29-2008, 05:55 PM
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Elise is MUCH nicer looking.
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06-29-2008, 05:57 PM
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06-29-2008, 07:45 PM
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Personally, I'm not going to bust on the TESLA, even though I wouldn't own one. Lotus needs these kinds of projects to stay in business, they're not going to survive in the US (or perhaps at all) if all they're doing is selling a couple hundred Exige/Elise's a year.
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06-29-2008, 08:25 PM
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06-29-2008, 08:47 PM
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I think it's very space age. I like them when I see them in person for sure. It's nice to see an Elise in photos with Teslas for comparison.
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06-29-2008, 08:49 PM
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2007 Exige S. Canyon Red. Black Euro Exige Wheels. All cloth interior (seats and door panels), semi-touring. |
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06-29-2008, 09:24 PM
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WTF
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 The Exige don't have them. |
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06-29-2008, 09:50 PM
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That orange Tesla; it's what the Elise SHOULD look like. Keep the Exige the same. Then people would be able to differentiate between the two!!!
Beautiful 
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Driving a Lotus Exige with sticky... performance tires on icy roads or in standing water is about as much fun as walking a high wire treated with WD-40 - Car & Driver BWR supercharged... I suppose I "got the power" now?? |
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06-29-2008, 10:14 PM
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the tesla is actually very nice looking in the flesh, more than the pictures do it justice.
there was an audi r8 there as well. pictures do not do that car justice either, it is stunning in person. |
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06-29-2008, 10:16 PM
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Live to Drive
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As Scottyb put it to me, the R8 looks great from all angles...except the profile. It's miserable from that angle. Needs a big wing and some more aggressive front body work.
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Driving a Lotus Exige with sticky... performance tires on icy roads or in standing water is about as much fun as walking a high wire treated with WD-40 - Car & Driver BWR supercharged... I suppose I "got the power" now?? |
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06-29-2008, 10:53 PM
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06-29-2008, 11:09 PM
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Some old photos I took of the Tesla next to my Elise
 
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06-30-2008, 01:41 AM
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great spottings pics...thanx
as far as the tesla, as i mentioned before...everything is pretty much great except for the short batt range (220miles +/-) IMO 
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06-30-2008, 05:28 AM
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2007 Exige S. Canyon Red. Black Euro Exige Wheels. All cloth interior (seats and door panels), semi-touring. |
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06-30-2008, 11:37 AM
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I dropped by the Tesla showroom in West Los Angeles in the Elise yesterday and checked it out. Really cool store and service area and the people were super nice and answered all my questions. We got there as 2 people were getting ready to go on a scheduled test drive. An elderly couple in their 70s I would guess? The top was off and the wife could not get in the car, so finally she put her full weight on the windshield and hung from it then plopped in the car. I said kind of quietly to the saleswoman, um, that looks like the same windscreen as the Elise , and she said yes it is the exact same windscreen. Then I said, you might want to tell people not to do what she just did unless you want the windshield breaking and injuring them , it is not a structural part of the car ! She was surprised and said thank you for that information we were not aware of that !
Nice color car, almost polar blue, the guy took off and it was eerily quite, looked like magic. Very cool are and more livable luxuries than an Elise in many ways, BUT My only issue I realized is that unless they make 250' charging cables, I would not be able to charge the car at home, I live on the 3rd floor and have underground parking, no way in hell the building owner would let somebody sponge electricity from a parking lot outlet or allow me to drop a cable over the balcony. And at work , same situation, no way the company is going to flip the bill for me recharging all day !
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