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Originally Posted by look 171
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Lotus has done this with its Elise and Exige and other car companies need to design and produce a back to basics lightweight sports car that can go as fast as the big cars with lots less power and better fuel economy.
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They wouldn't sell too many. Too many of us want muti. elec ports for various $hit we run while driving. We need the large screen tv in the center of the dash. Oh, don't forget the adj suspen. 9000lbs 15 way adj leather seats with heaters. On and on. I talk to some who claims they are a car guy. Many talked about how wonderful the amount of computer stuff they have in sports cars these days. they like all that auto ajdustable crap on there. I took someone our in my 00 S2000. First thing they say is "What? No Sat map sys. and no power seats for a 30k car".
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I know, your probably right.
I know when I purchased my 2003 Mini Cooper S JCW, I wanted to order it custom, I made sure there was no sunroof, no Nav, no fancy stereo etc... I kept the car as barebones and light as possible going further once it was delivered, I took off the run flat tires and heavy 17" rims and put on a set of 16" Kosai K1's with Falken Azenis tires. Then I put a set of custom Spax coil overs, the same used by John Cooper Garages in England.
I weighed the car after that and had it down to 2630 lbs. If I wanted to get crazy I could have easily shed another 200 lbs out of it, but at 2630 with 205HP I felt it was a pretty quick little car.
Only a track hound could appreciate what I did to that car.
Your typical car buyer today has to have tons of goodies in their cars in order for them to feel like they got a good deal, I was even kind of pissed my 1980 911 had heavy power windows and considered converting over to regular wind up windows.
I have that in the works right now for my RX7 and the sunroof is going bye bye too.