As a whole, though, he doesn't regret his time with the Elise at all. Especially, he says, when you commute, you're always getting joy out of it. It might not be the backroad driving we evangelize often on these pages, but it's something that brought him happiness every time he went to work.
Sure, you could save it for weekends, but to him that'd be missing the point. Driving every day, if you're going to have to get in the car and drive somewhere, especially in Southern California why not have fun with it? Now he's moving on to other projects.
Life in the desert has shifted his attention to trucks, like a Hummer H1 he's building up. He's selling the Elise, so if you're looking for a very, very high-mileage Lotus you can find his here. Join Now. New Cars. Car Culture. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. Lotus insiders have already revealed a fair amount about this new car. We know it will be based on an evolved version of the bonded aluminum architecture that underpins the soon-to-retire models, and company CEO Phil Popham has also told us that it will be considerably more usable than the cars it will replace.
But now we also know the code name it is being developed under: Type After years of few sales, Lotus was acquired by Chinese auto giant Geely in , which ordered work to begin on several new models.
The only one of these we have already seen is the forthcoming Evija EV hypercar , but we know that at least one of the others is an SUV, which we believe will be built in China. Popham told us that the plan is to make a car with the everyday viability of rivals such as the Porsche Cayman.
Work on the EV sports-car platform that will be sold alongside it—and will ultimately replace it—has already begun. The biggest change is the all-new TFT digital dashboard with the choice of two screens, one with a conventional set of dials and the other a race car-style with digital speed read-out and an engine speed bar.
The steering wheel is of a new design and clad in leather and alcantara. It features a flat base to create better leg clearance for taller drivers and to aid ingress and egress. Every car comes with a Final Edition build plaque, plus new seat trim and stitch patterns. These include Azure Blue, the colour used in the first production car images for media in ; Black, the brand colour of the motorsport division when the company ran the successful Autobytel Lotus Elise Championship race series; and Racing Green, an homage to the colour of the original car unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
The Elise Sport Final Edition gains an extra 23bhp from a revised calibration and so replaces the Sport Delivering bhp and Nm of torque, the engine has been tuned to provide stunning real-world performance and class-leading efficiency.
The mph sprint is completed in 4. Further weight savings can be achieved with an extensive range of optional carbon fibre panels, including sill covers and engine cover, lithium-ion battery plus a lightweight polycarbonate rear window. With all the lightweight options chosen, the mass of the Elise Sport reduces further from kg to kg. With aerodynamically optimised components such as the front splitter, rear wing, rear diffuser and side floor extension, this Final Edition car produces 66kg of downforce at mph and kg of downforce at is maximum speed of mph.
The extensive list of standard equipment includes Bilstein sport dampers and adjustable anti-roll bars, to help maximise the aerodynamic downforce available and boost grip whilst maintaining the legendary Elise handling. Also fitted as standard is a lightweight lithium-ion battery and polycarbonate rear window. Other lightweight carbon fibre options, as on the Elise Sport Final Edition, are available reducing the mass to an unladen weight of just kg.
The Exige range is celebrated in its final year of production with three new models — the Exige Sport , Exige Sport and Exige Cup Like the Elise, new equipment for this final year of production includes unique paint choices, new decals and two new wheel finishes. All versions of the Exige also come with the TFT digital dashboard, Final Edition build plaque, new steering wheel, plus new seat trim and stitch patterns.
All models are powered by a 3. Pure unassisted steering offers exquisite feedback and vivid communication at all speeds. Like the Elise Final Edition range, the Exige is also available in a selection of new colours representing significant cars in its history. The new Exige Sport replaces the outgoing Exige Sport The power increase of 47bhp comes from a revised calibration linked to the Edelbrock supercharger with chargecooling, to produce bhp and Nm. Linked to a light weight of 1,kg, the Exige Sport accelerates to 60mph in just 3.
The advanced aerodynamics are carefully balanced, generating 70kg of downforce at the rear and 45kg up front for a total of kg at top speed. To put this power on to the road, the Exige Sport has spoke silver lightweight forged alloy wheels 7.
It is the fastest Exige available, topping out at mph, with mph completed in 3. With its light weight of 1,kg and bhp giving a power to weight of bhp per tonne and Nm from the supercharged and chargecooled V6 engine, coupled with a flat torque curve and maximum power available to maximum revs, the Exige is regarded as the most complete driving car of its class.
The list of standard equipment is impressive. Front and rear Eibach anti-roll bars are adjustable and the three-way adjustable Nitron dampers allow for different high and low speed compression settings.
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