: I saw one the other day driving down the road with a yellow euro plate on the back, I wonder how long that guy will go before getting a ticket!

: I checked out a Sport 190 at a dealer. man that thing is made for business. Metal plating underneath the car, Race buckets, FULL roll bar, harnesses, no glove box. Man I bet you are in heaven. Now all you need to do is buy a z3 2.8 coupe to replace your Focus!

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: : those are official Lotus 'race' wheels and tires. a $2K 'option', and you get to keep the 'road' wheels and P-zeros at no extra cost ;)

: : the tires are yoko A038, especially designed for the Elise. the camber and toe settings had to be changed to use them! i only took the car out on the race tires once so far, and they are amazing. from what i hear they really don't like standing water, so if there's possiblity of rain having the pirellis laying around is not a bad thing...

: : the Elise requires a level of commitment far beyond the M Coupe! for starters, it feeds on race gas at $5/gal... fortunately the economy is decent, so the 8-gal tank gets you about 250 miles. but better be home by then, or have a chase car with an extra can of gas (or anything else you'd want to carry, since there's ZERO storage space - not even a glovebox).

: : as a track car, though, you'd have to get an F40/F50 or an all-out racer to do any better. my rpm-restricted break-in laps at PIR on street tires (1:30, 76.6mph) would have put me on the pole for last year's womens global GT race (i think they run panoz racers)... and i had a 195-lb passenger! this is within a couple of seconds of the BEST i've done there in the Coupe on bfg's... the big difference is in corner speed, as i kept the Elise below 115mph where the Coupe would hit 135 by the end of the straight.

: : sorry for a long OT post.