Jeez...you're getting very difficult to understand again, Dan. Sometimes your sentences are simply incoherent. You need to work on that.

Your interesting, and uniformed bias notwithstanding (you've never even touched an Elise, let alone driven one) I will share my INFORMED view of the car after putting about 300 miles on my new one this weekend.

Yes, for those of you who enjoy plushness in your car, you will not like this car, it is not for you, stay away from it, and you will think it is a monumental waste of money. People especially uninformed, as our friend Dan there, will misguidedly deride its advanced chassis technology as a kit car, and its modern engine (as opposed to the Crossfire motore) as a mere '4 banger.'

Stay away from the Elise...you won't 'get' it.

But if you enjoy a car which, despite its compromises, is flat out the most enjoyable car on the road to drive, go check one out. I thought my previous Lotuses handled well. I thought that the Crossfire handled well.

I came home to Annapolis from Jersey down the back roads of Maryland's eastern shore, some really great enthusiasts' roads that I am quite familiar with and on which I've always exercised sports cars.

Even cars that I felt handled these roads very well, including the Crossfire, simply now would feel like over weight, softly sprung, slow, cars with slow, insensitive steering. I had driven the Elise demo when I ordered it, but that was a short ride.

This long trip over the interstate and back roads showed that this car is a marvel of performance.

No Dan, there's no convincing you, but I really don't care to. I've owned the Crossfire. I didn't want that car as an everyday cruiser, it was my weekend toy. If it were to be an everyday car for me, the Crossfire would make more sense than the Elise.

But since I wanted a weekend toy, then I decided to go for performance and superior engineering and technology, not to mention pedigree, rarity, and wow factor.

Yeah, I'll gladly take my little kit car Toyota four banger over the last decade's technology, overprice, under performing Crossfire any day...even one that is all blinged out such as yours.