if you get a louts, dont worry about the nissan engine, toyota 2zge will do the trick, and will be a legal conversion as it came in the later elise... also 8200rpm redline and vvtli... what more could you want 141kw, but only 200nm tq also could get trd supercharger kit.... nice

but still 6 foot plus would struglle to fit nicely

TA22 Celica? Around the 76 model
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Ahh I re-read your post... For a newer car, 180sx.

just get a sunroof

suzuki cappucino

Celica and 180SX weight more than 1000kg
Cappucino has too much caffiene ... try a decaf americano

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Wow quite a few ideas

The key for me is the sub 1000kg as I love the chuck ability of light cars

Stanza Coupe if I could Convince the old lady in town who has one to sell it would be great

The comment about the seat is probably the closest to the mark if I simply swapped my turbo gear into the Sunny coupe with Stanza diff and my upgraded front brake's etc it would be pretty fun then it is just a case of fixing the seating position so that I can drive the thing to Melb and back and not feel like I have to leaver my self out of the car with a crow bar

I already have my seat in my 1200 hard against the back seat and down quite a bit lower then standard. I run a 100mm extension boss behind the steering wheel this gets the seating position good but makes the climb in and out a pain. The longer doors on the sunny coupe help

Looks like sunny coupe it will stay for now till a better idea comes alone