{"id":92021,"date":"2025-10-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/?p=92021"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T13:25:03","slug":"seloc-editorial-the-exige-and-the-art-of-buying-a-car-you-will-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/seloc-editorial-the-exige-and-the-art-of-buying-a-car-you-will-use\/","title":{"rendered":"The Exige and the art of buying a car you will use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before you fall for an Exige, work out how you\u2019ll use it. Try getting in beside a kerb, check the clearance at the garage and drive far enough to decide how you feel about the noise. Those things seem trivial on a sunny test drive. They can decide whether you use the car once a week or once a month.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/68\/Lotus_Exige_green.jpg\" alt=\"Green Lotus Exige Series 2\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\" \/><figcaption>Green Lotus Exige Series 2. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lotus_Exige_green.jpg\">JaayJay \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/mark\/1.0\/\">Public domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ask about modifications one at a time. What was changed, who fitted it and is there an invoice? Track use needn\u2019t put you off a car with good preparation and maintenance. Equally, a standard-looking car can still have worn consumables or overdue jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Leave some money for the first season and drive it as it is for a while. You\u2019ll have a better idea what, if anything, you want to change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy the Exige you\u2019ll want to take out on a slightly inconvenient day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[935,936],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ownership","category-seloc-editorial-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92087,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92021\/revisions\/92087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.seloc.club\/w691\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}