Lotus Elise

Lotus Elise

Summary: An article about lotus elise, its history and whats make this car so popular.

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Article Body: Lotus Elise is a good looking and high performance sports car developed by the Lotus Company. When the first Lotus Elise was released, it received a lot of attention for its remarkably low weight and striking design. The first Lotus Elise hit the marked in September . Today, there are two main types Lotus Elise available for the car enthusiast: Lotus Elise Series cars and Lotus Elise series cars.

The creator of the first Lotus Elise was named Max David and worked from London. The founder of the Lotus Company, Colin Chapman, had always dreamed about a car that combined extremely light weight with superb performance, and Max David took these dreams to heart. The remarkably low weight of the Lotus Elise is what makes fantastic performance possible even with a modest engine. The shape of the Lotus Elise has been created with dynamics and driving purity in focus.

The first Lotus Elise weighed no more than lb ( kg). Driving this car is amazing, due to its remarkable ability to accelerate, brake and corner. The weight of the first Lotus Elise can be compared to the Porsche Boxter, which is considered a low-weight sports car and still weigh almost as much as two Lotus Elise cars - lb ( kg). This means that while the Porsche Boxter requires and engine output of bhp ( kW), the Lotus Elise works brilliant with only bhp ( kW).

As mentioned above, the first Lotus Elise was released in September . The year after the Lotus Company released an even lighter Lotus Elise that weighed an astonishingly low lb ( kg). This car was followed by the Lotus Elise S three years later. The Lotus Elise S is faster than the preceding Lotus Elise cars and is fitted with a Variable Valve Control (VVC) engine. This engine has been developed from the Rover K series and equipped with Variable valve timing (VVT). You will also find more comfortable seats in the Lotus Elise S, since some customers found the first two Elise versions uncomfortable. The new seats are filled with more padding.

The next step for the Lotus Elise developers was the roofless Lotus Elise R. This cabriolet version of the Elise car was released in a limited edition in and was equipped with a bhp ( kW) engine. The name R was derived from the first prototype; it had a bhp/ton power to weight ratio. The prototype had a bhp engine, and weighed no more than kg. In accordance with this, the limited edition consisted of exactly cars. Later in the year , the Lotus Company released the Exige. The Exige was similar to the Lotus Elise R, but had a hardtop. The engine was exactly the same; bhp ( kW).

The next step for the Lotus Company was to embark on the construction of the Series Lotus Elise car. The first of the Series Lotus Elise cars was actually announced the same year as the Lotus Elise R and the Exige was released. The car from the Series was designed directly on the computer, which was a totally new way of working for the Lotus Company.