Advantages: Classic good looks and affordable rag-top fun Disadvantages: Leak-prone hood
...my 1990 "Lotus Racing Green" Lotus Elan S1, I thought I'd share my experience of owing this ground-breaking car.
The Lotus brief was a two-seater roadster that would appeal to the American market. With this in mind, it's easy to see why the cabin appears so spacious - American's don't like to be cramped!
The windscreen is shallow-angled and you get the feeling of being in a much larger car as the dashboard stetches away in front of you. The driving ... ...as among the best work Lotus ever did, the Elan is a sheer pleasure to drive. And so began my love affair with "B" roads!
There is nothing like punting it off a roundabaout onto a stretch of twisties to make you grin like a simpleton. The Elan is forgiving, making even the clumsiest corner-taker look good.
My Elan was the turbo variety - really the non-turbo's aren't worth any savings they may appear to give you at the time of purchase. I drove ...
fallon005 16.08.2004
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Advantages: Looks, Handling, Class, Style,etc... Disadvantages: Good restauration needed, those handbrakes...
O.K. this car might be a right mother for breaking down, but once it gets running,... you get the point. If you do not think (and not many people do) that the front is the nicest seen on a car yet, the back must be! And if you are not interested in looks at all, you will have to look long and hard to find any other car of its class and era that at least matches its performance!!! Compared to normal cars its top speed of just over 200 km\h might not ... ...be no problem at all, even at suicidal high speeds. Now you say that your baby of a 928 does the same, but hey, your car has also got that certein point after which it just goes flying out, the +2 warns you by slight under steering at 80 mp\h in the tightest of bends. Nowadays a Elan +2 could be quite a hastle... if you buy one be prepared to push one. I know of one where the brakes just failed sending its fiberglass body through this sive of an ...
Thompson162 11.10.2000
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