S1 Exige vs. scenery

There’s a poor lad over on Seloc who’s not had a good day today…
Feel really sorry for him.
[image]SELOC | Lotus Enthusiasts Club
[image]SELOC | Lotus Enthusiasts Club
[image]SELOC | Lotus Enthusiasts Club
[image]SELOC | Lotus Enthusiasts Club

sad to see… hope/guess everyone okay ?

It seems so. This is what he said:

"The road was newly wetted by a drop of rain, the temperature was warm.

Oh dear.

I’d like to add that neither my girlfriend or I was hurt.

I was going round a sweeping bend doing around 55 mph, we just started to spin and all I remember was thinking that it was a good job we weren’t travelling too quickly and that we may even just stop in the middle of the road, how wrong was I?! We thundered into the fence on the opposite side of the road as we span and as you can see from the damage, both the front and rear of the car made contact with the fence.

Once we had come to a stop there were obviously 2 queues of traffic, one either side. The queue which were on the side of the road where we started were stationary and one person skidded round that same bend and almost into the back of the queue, thank goodness they stopped in time.

I will now be prematurely ending my lotus ownership experience as this is the third time she will have been garaged since last Dec (this is the only time that I am to blame) and I got my gf and mum giving it large.

I wonder if any of you can help me in finding a suitably nice looking roadster or coupe which has those computer aids to make up for lack of talent & experience? My budget would be 30k or so.

Thanks v much."

Many suggest he keeps the car and goes on a Walshy day when it’s fixed.

ohh that is nasty, glad both are ok! Looks like a rear clam remplacement and some work to the front! that will be 4k please

Gutting and painful to look at.

But think about it, all walked away and there’s only fibreglass to replace. It’s a success story! I’d want to keep the car, something heavier would have had a lot more force to disperse, could have gone through the fence, etc.

Ian

Sorry to see ANY Exige in that sate

May have also wrecked the wheels and stearing etc if gone up a curb. Did same at 20mph in a BMW and it needed all the wheels, exhaust and underneath of the car replacing for �8000.

Sorry to see ANY Exige in that state

Good call…

Could it be for sale???

Yeah, repair it and buy some tyres that are good in the wet!!