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I don't enjoy driving my Elise anymore. At least on most public streets.
Driving on the freeways, city driving, driving to work and back...seems like a waste of a beautiful machine. A machine designed for superb handling on the track, back roads with no traffic, no stoplights and canyon driving. This is the only "public streets" I like.
Crowded city streets and freeways crammed with poor drivers, SUV's and jacked up pick-up trucks, parking lot horrors.... curtailed my Lotus driving to weekend pleasure. It seems like that the track driving is the best. I call this QUALITY DRIVING.
Unfortunately, I have to drive the freeways to get to the track.
My Elise sits in the driveway covered from the elements. Once or twice a week, I cover the Elise for short canyon drives or four times a year I do the track (HPDE). Is it a waste for a large investment? I don't think so.
The Quality Driving gives me a tremendous amount of enjoyment, even though it is a small amount of seat time. But the small amount of driving gives the most amount of pleasure and the smiles.:shift:
The frustrations of city street/freeway Lotus driving is in the past.
I appreciate the daily Lotus drivers out there. That can give a different enjoyment for those. But that's not for me. I wait until the time is right, and I treasure every moment of it!
-Hal
Driving on the freeways, city driving, driving to work and back...seems like a waste of a beautiful machine. A machine designed for superb handling on the track, back roads with no traffic, no stoplights and canyon driving. This is the only "public streets" I like.
Crowded city streets and freeways crammed with poor drivers, SUV's and jacked up pick-up trucks, parking lot horrors.... curtailed my Lotus driving to weekend pleasure. It seems like that the track driving is the best. I call this QUALITY DRIVING.
My Elise sits in the driveway covered from the elements. Once or twice a week, I cover the Elise for short canyon drives or four times a year I do the track (HPDE). Is it a waste for a large investment? I don't think so.
The Quality Driving gives me a tremendous amount of enjoyment, even though it is a small amount of seat time. But the small amount of driving gives the most amount of pleasure and the smiles.:shift:
The frustrations of city street/freeway Lotus driving is in the past.
I appreciate the daily Lotus drivers out there. That can give a different enjoyment for those. But that's not for me. I wait until the time is right, and I treasure every moment of it!
-Hal