HERE TO SAVE THE DAY

 

They said Grand Touring! The gt roadster is $42,000, trust me. You would never be able to buy at $26,000.

 

well if they have the elise why not the exige ? anyhow +1 for elise being a good car

 

Just not very practical.. have you tried getting in and out one yet?

 

sweet that's cool.

 

But you can get the same performance sports car for $26k, is I think what dkoor was trying to say.

 

Haha.. the PoPo Z. Nice photochop. Too bad there is no space to arrest a guy and take him back to the police station.

 

Seems to me the cars on that list are pretty expensive. Not bad for a 26K Nissan to compete at that level.

 

That's not a photoshop. The car was taken away from a guy because of a few laws he broke with his mods. The cop turned it into a pursuit car. No need for backseats with a pursuit car.

 

The reason you won't see the Elise in the top 5 is because CR puts a huge amount of stock into comfort and everyday practicality when they look at this stuff. A lot of people are just too big to fit into the Elise comfortably, and lack of practicality is obvious.

I'm guessing that the Viper probably finished out of the top 10 for the same reasons...

 

This is some kool news.

 

If people have trouble getting in and out of the Elise, it just means they are too fat and need to lose some serious weight.

My friend who's 6'2" had no problem getting in and out of my car.

 

Is it me or CNN can't even comment on a list correctly: http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/08/30/...ars/index.html

Here are some of the errors that they made:

-"The prices of the eight cars in the magazine's most recent tests ranged from $45,545 for a Lotus Elise to $105,855 for a Mercedes-Benz SL550."
The lowest of the prince range should be the 350Z ($42,800)

-The list is obviously a wider range of cars then "super cars", but CNN keeps using "super cars", if the list was super cars, we would see more exotics than the list has on it.

-"The Lotus Elise, the cheapest car on the list, ranked last because of its extreme nature. The Elise's ride is extremely harsh and getting in and out of the tiny, low-slung car is difficult."
Like mentioned before, the Lotus Elise is not the cheapest on the list.

 

z should be way higher than 8th....

 

Gotta remember, this is CR, not a car magazine. CR rates cars based on comfot, reliability, maintainence and repair costs, safety, etc... They don't rate cars based on 1/4 mile performance or skidpad numbers.