Lotus Elise

teaches you to drive all over again

Advantages: the best drivers car on the road
Disadvantages: none, zilch, squat

...You buy it for the lotus tweaked k series, variable valve timed 1.8 Rover engine which generates 160bhp. (This is about 210bhp per tonne by my reckoning.)This free revving throaty engine is married to a chassis and suspension created by the very best in the business. Half an hour getting used to the slightly notchy short shift gearbox and you will yearn for twisty roads and overtaking experiences. Driving becomes an end in itself not just a way ...
...power is coupled with vast ventilated discs and rear tyres the size of belgium, but and it is a big but, there is none of the following:- Power steering ABS Airbags Seat belt tensioners Traction control Electronic brake force distribution Servo brakes It is you, the road and an engine. You have to think about what you are doing, you have to anticipate, plan your corners, pick a line. squeeze the power on, treat the brakes with respect. As ...

SDavies 06.11.2003 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Lotus Elise 111S

Small but perfectly formed

Advantages: Myriad.... but here are a few. Looks gorgeous, goes like XXXX off a shovel, has suede upholstery, driving it is about the best fun you can have on your own.
Disadvantages: Hmmm, let me see... nope, none.

...specifications and called it the Lotus Sweary.... and finally I own one. All women should buy this car, words cannot describe what fantastic fun it is! Here's Why. PRINCIPLES I like things that are properly designed with their specific function in mind, the Lotus Elise is entirely conceived to deliver maximum enjoyment to people who like driving. I had to drive about 1000 miles a week when I first got mine and I loved every minute of it. It's ...
...since I've been driving a Lotus I have experienced a significant drop in the incidents of road rage directed at me. In fact, there's only been one in two years. There used to be several a week. I don't know if you've ever driven a Triumph Spitfire at 120 whilst trying to escape the clutches of an angry fist-shaking maniac in an Audi TT who wants to kill you for having the audacity to overtake him but I can assure you it's grim. To me, this alone ...

Sweary 05.11.2003 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Lotus Elise 2000

340R - Go Kart with Style

Advantages: Pure driving pleasure
Disadvantages: No roof, doors - not the most practical car in the world!

It is terribly unfortunate that I don't own one of these amazing cars. however I have had the pleasure of using one on some rather good roads in Warwickshire. I loved it so much that I need to post a comment on Ciao. The 340r is a thoroughbread Elise, it is the Elise with out the finesse - it is just a totally pure drivers car. I love the looks, but many don't, it is often compared to a dune buggy. No doors is probably the first thing you notice. ...
...experience, so it doesn't need them. The first task is to clamber over the sills housing the really cool translucent panels. Sitting in the sports seats on the floor, you realise just how low you are actually sitting. Flick the key in the ignition, and a beautiful tuned 1.8l Rover K series engine splutters into life. The car I took out had a sports exhaust, so I was looking forward to hear it at 7000rpm! Blue interior lights look awesome and two ...

Kimpalmer 01.07.2001 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Lotus Elise 340R

BIG VROOOM VROOOM

Advantages: Low emissions, affordable sports dream car, award winning design, sexy, curvy and beautiful
Disadvantages: None - blasphemous!!

...drive. This car, fathomed by Lotus has held me in a complete Tantalus for years now – as a graphic design student I’ve even wrote a 3000 word essay, visited the factory in Hethel, Norfolk and no doubt I have this car on my mind too much it’s very unhealthy. SEXY: The Elise to my mind has turned out to be a bigger sex icon than Bridgitte Bardot by a long shot, now guys, if you have no girlfriend I would strongly advise buying this ...
...CAE and CAD facilities by Lotus which they expanded to their new factory in Hethel, Norfolk. TIMELESS CLASSIC: Lotus has been widely acclaimed for the Esprit GT3, the designer behind this had to get the car noticed, so how do we think he got it noticed? Well the most obvious method on the planet ‘bright orange’ paint – Steve Crijn the man behind this was the first to use bright orange as a design he also was the genius behind ...

thekickinkat 13.10.2003 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: helpful
Review of Lotus Elise 2000

All ingenious is simple

Advantages: see opinion
Disadvantages: see opinion

Affairs of automobile compartment Lotus in the beginning of 90th years when it was developed Elise, went completely not excellent. By then in Norfolk two models - by road of super penalties Lotus Esprit and appeared in 1989 Lotus Elan with four-cylinder turbo motor Isuzu, the first in a history of the company 1 the automobile were issued. But Elan, despite of warm reception of press, "has not gone", and it have removed from manufacture. The companies ...
...in 1995 also has appeared Lotus Elise. Just at that time Lotus constantly passed from hands in hands. Its masters were both General Motors, and Bugatti while, at last, 80 % of actions of the company has not got in 1996 Malaysian Proton. Having received the control above the British enterprise, Malayans even were going to organize in Kuala Lumpur assembly roadsters Elise with the subsequent possible equipment two-liter 200 power (!) the engine which ...

De_Niro 01.10.2001 · Read full review
Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful
Review of Lotus Elise 111S