Sorry Cindy2, I did see your feminine handle, but I've often seen guys post under such names...I should've connected that the more feminine nature of the Crossfire does indeed attract more female buyers...my apologies...

but...please---don't adopt Dan's tactics-- don't throw a red herring...I made a mistake on your gender, but again...can you please cite your sources, THAT is the issue. The problems you cite frankly appear nowhere at all in any of the many sites I visit routinely that concern the Federal Elise.

I think you may have stumbled onto old data that describe some issues with the early european elises...the cars now are very different animals, and have an altogether different engine. The early cars used the Rover K engine, and indeed the Rover engines may have had oil leak problems.

The US cars are too NEW to be manifesting the problems you cite, frankly. There probably aren't many US cars with more than 7K on the odometer, even a bad steering rack lasts longer than that.

I don't have rose colored glasses on, no doubt the car will surface some gremlins of varying levels of criticality. But so far, the problems seem to be limited to a handful of cars with idle problems already fixed by an ECU flash, brake light switch needing some adjustment, and....well, that's about all anybody's come up with so far.

OR...given the problems you described...you might have accidentally stumbled onto an old Pontiac fiero site (just kidding).

PLEEEEEZEEEEE...cite your sources, if you intend to meaningfully contribute to the discourse.

Mbpec....the car comes with carpet, more carpet if you order the touring package, which has it's own MSRP. Are ALL surfaces carpted? No. But it does come with carpet. Where you put your feet. Which is where carpet should be.