The biggest change is you can now update your car information on our web site. if you already have a car in the database you should be getting an email with your account information.
I’ve also added a stats page with a very cool map. If your car appears in the middle of the ocean or in the middle of Australia, please update the City, State/Province, and Country so google can find you.
I don’t know enough about the Type 50 to know what to add. Other than adding “Type 50” to the type list and “Plus2”, “Plus2S” to the series list is there anything else?
I think Terry’s selection list is fine for the series. I guess we would call them FHC Airflow in the model column to keep it simple, or add something like “Plus 2” to the model selection list to make it consistent?
Can you call our +2 Elans “Superiorial Evolved Elan” ? as they have a refined Elan chassis and body profile aerodynamic resulting in subtle superior road handling.
Signed, a happy Elan S1 and +2 owner who believes the +2 drives better,
Eric
I assume you are referring to the map. Because I only collect City/State/Country and send them off to google to geocode, all of the pins for a given city end up at the same point and look like one pin. To show them all I add a little randomness into the coordinates for each pin. You might also notice you move each time the map is refreshed.
Photos are a little more work but are on the way and are the next major feature. I know how I’m going to do it now it is just a matter of getting it done.
Hey Jim,
You have caught me just down the road from Knockhill racing circuit. Its 10 min’s from my house & I do appear to have moved a little closer to home. www.knockhill.com/
Jim, regarding +2s, I would suggest grouping them separately from the regular Elans, not homogenizing them in. I think most people consider the +2 a different car regardless of the common origins. No implications about superiority or inferiority, just different.
Hello again, I agree with Rod. The Plus Two is a seperate vehicle. Lotus built an Elan, and about four or five years later built an Elan Plus Two. It is that simple.
I made some silly remarks earlier in this subject which remain my personal observations.
We’re talking about two different cars here and neither are babies.