>>>Hello all.
>>>Over the weekend my lovely wife's car died. It was a 1995 Mitsubishi Galant.
>>>She didn't buy it new.... but anyway, it died.
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>>>Well she has had couple of promtions since and is making more money, so she wants to get something "nice", a high end Toyota or even a Lexus.
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>>>What do you all think?
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>>ewwwww...everyone has one of those. go with a Lotus Elise! ..or perhaps the Exige model if you want to go a little quicker. (Although I see there appears to be a baby in your picture so maybe not)
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>And I'm going to pay for it with my looks and charm? :)

The Elise is much less expensive than the old Turbo Esprit and no more expensive than some models of Lexus. It also has very little trunk space and is not, of course, an alternative to a Toyota or Lexus in any sense.

I heard somewhere that the American version had a softened suspension.