Boy is she p!$$&d !!!

[Over The Edge]

This story made our news bulletin tonight: the guy is a DJ and was flirting with a model on air and said "I'd leave my wife and kids for you". Said wife heard the lot and thus plotted her revenge:

A guy from nearby bought it before hubby got home. Was worth over 70 grand.






http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2192&item=4556985749





FL
www.franklucas.net

[King_Ellesar]

oh man, that's awesome. did you notice the buyer's name? must have been what he thought when he found the auction lol.

[kevmo_fan]

HOLY CRAP lol!!!

Now... I do feel sorry for that guy!

FRANK, you have been warned... ;)

[ImaX]

Lol, that's cool... I'd love to see the scene when her husband came home finally...

Couldn't someone sell an Oasys or something equal for $0.50? The buyer was lucky... as he wrotes: "thank you hayley the car is excellent thank your hubby for me"

[hephiroth]

wow that's nuts...well, i guess it serves him right for saying something like that on a TV show...

-jeff-

[LDGuy]

Man. Serves him right.

Plus the Lotus Esprit is a horrible car. Bling on wheels. Not a proper sports car by any means.

[ktriton]

Dude, I'd take a Lotus for 0.5 pounds any day of the week.

[Sk]

My word, I could even invest two pounds in it. But everybody knows, I'm a squanderer

[mesavox]

So the news confirmed it huh?

I saw it last week or something like that but got to looking and noticed some strangeties...

Look at the people who have bought previous items.... including one that seems oddly familiar with the wording in the description. And too, I supose the story could have been a lie even though it was told to the media, but at least the part of me that thought the auction was awsome the first time I saw it can know it wasn't an obvious rating increase scam....

With that, I think it ROCKS! LOL

[Thefunkygibbons]

Man. Serves him right.

Plus the Lotus Esprit is a horrible car. Bling on wheels. Not a proper sports car by any means.

Really, the Lotus may have its faults, but it is a real sports car, with all the knowledge about handling that Lotus have acquired over the years build into it.

Although for my money, the Elise is much nicer

[Sk]

Really, the Lotus may have its faults, but it is a real sports car, with all the knowledge about handling that Lotus have acquired over the years build into it.

Although for my money, the Elise is much nicer

I agree. Anyway, for the price...

[Thefunkygibbons]

The Elise demonstrates that weight counts against you everywhere. The engine itself in relatively small but it is only dealing with a small weight

I guess that is why my new Mini is not so rapid as the old Mini Cooper even though it has a much bigger more powerful engine

[LDGuy]

Yes I would agree that the Elise is better, but i'm still not a massive fan of Lotus myself. Maybe it's because i'm british. Lol.

[Sk]

I guess that is why my new Mini is not so rapid as the old Mini Cooper even though it has a much bigger more powerful engine

Here in Italy, FIAT produced "Uno" (a small car) and "Panda" (city car) for lots of years. They were equipped with ridiculous engines: my Uno, which is one of the last, and therefore of the most powerful ones, has a 998cc per cylinder (don't know how much cylinders, indeed) for a maximum power of 45 HP (they say: I'll never believe it). Well, if you push a Panda quite hard (anyway, in a sport style), it leaves some tyre on the ground even in third gear. The Uno weighs no more than 650 kg and the Panda less than that.

[Thefunkygibbons]

My mum used to have a Panda so when I was a lad, I drove it

The seats were so little, they were like deck chairs

and it used to stall in cold weather, very worrying

[Sk]

On the other hand, during summer it is an oven with wheels.

[Thefunkygibbons]

In a few years time, the house will be surrounded by cars of that "quality" as all the funky gibbons get old enough to learn to drive *shudders*

[Shreddy]

Seeing this thread turned into a car talk thread.

I'd love to get an Elise, the motor in that car is whats in the Toyota Celica. Force Fed has a Turbo upgrade for the Elise that would put the car at 275HP, pretty insane seeing the car was fast at 190HP.

http://www.forcedfed.com/elise.html

I keep telling the wife that I'm getting one of these cars, with turbo of course.

[Thefunkygibbons]

Earlier this year I was 10 minutes away from buying a Westfield (an insane 2 seater similar to a Caterham Seven) and then Mrs Funky decided that all seven of us could not fit in it

So we bought a blt of land instead

More sensible, but a lot less fun

[Shreddy]

Build a small track on the land and get some fast go karts.

[ChrisMcCoy]

Really, the Lotus may have its faults, but it is a real sports car, with all the knowledge about handling that Lotus have acquired over the years build into it.

Although for my money, the Elise is much nicer

And it can outrun the Apache Military Helicopter.
Proof:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/downloads/lotus_vs_apache_broadband.ram

I'd call it a sports car on that criteria alone :)

[Thefunkygibbons]

Topgear are always coming up with crazy stunts

I can never decide whether it is even pretending to be a serious motor program