Future 2015 Lotus Elise Car Overview

It would be easy to forget the superb Lotus Elise dam sublime new products and if something is good, why futz with it? But the company network of new faces (including Eterne Esprit, Elan and Elite) at the Paris show has a great beauty to the most famous Lotus has essentially its first major renovation since the two squares hit the streets in the mid 90s.

Set to arrive in dealerships in early 2015 with a target price of £ 35,000 depending on the number must be substantially the same in U.S. dollars, the next-generation Elise will keep its main engine, the last unit of the wheel back, but the chassis is claimed to be new (an adaptation of Evora media platform) and the skin in a way is called Lotus CEO Dany Bahar called “young, strong, confident, bordering on the ruthless”.

“Unforgiven” is a rare term for a large dictionary of descriptors car, and we wonder if it’s a good thing. But “brave” is true, and what a superlative dry has a new frame is clearly different from the original. Lotus pre-show claimed that this attack against a car “to give you a subtle hint of the old Elise, so it still seems a touch of familiarity”. Squint as we do, we find it hard to see something that resembles the current car, what we see is a fish. Toyota plans to offer flu, rather than something to be steak and kidney pie.

Speaking of Toyota, there really is something familiar about the new Elise and its 2.0-liter DOHC 16-valve four-cylinder engine mounted behind the cab. Like all current Lotus cars, the engine supply Toyota. A six-speed manual transmission is standard, while the box is a manual optional seven-speed dual clutch automated apparently developed by Lotus itself. But Lotus is not its own engine management programming, and forced feeding, Lotus is not clear whether it is the expectation here is turbo or supercharger for 316 horsepower and 243 lb.-ft. of torque. Weighs only 2414 pounds listed, Lotus provides a 0-time-62-km / h in 4.3 seconds and top speed is estimated at just under 170 km / h. It is not yet a naturally aspirated engine.

Lotus describes the new engine as a “mild hybrid” because of an engine start / stop baking in the software. When the car is waiting at a red light, for example, then on again off buzzwords when the driver touches the throttle non-hybrid, and in particular, though, right? It was perhaps more interesting, however, find the word “practice” used in press materials for the Elise. It is difficult to combine practice with a two-seat sports car, but Lotus quoted substantially improved input and output, two activities that support the car door wide to make things extra level contortionist. Hopefully the new Elise thresholds are much, much thinner.

Lest you fear will lose some of Elise’s character of a purist sports car in this updated production, Lotus is seeking to reassure everyone, because it is clear that “2015 Elise has lost none of his cheeky charm “and he” behaves like a Dream, a dream, but very aggressive and exciting. “Tension filled? Is it so convincingly that “on the edge of the harsh”? We’ll just wait and see.