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Originally Posted by fkshiu
I'm sure you already know this but the Lotus is simply a barebones street legal go-kart: damn fast and fun, but hard to live with: hernia-inducing ergonomics, back breaking suspension, deafening noise on the highway and shoddy fit/finish
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I agree with all those things except for back breaking suspension.
It's one of the most supple sports cars I've ever driven. The ride was suprising good.
My Boxster is worse over the bumps than the Elise & the Mini Cooper S is much worse than both of them!
The supercharged Toyota engine has a nice dollop of torque low down but will still rev past 8000 rpm & the non supercharged on doesn't wake up until at least 4000 rpm.
Elise's never used the Honda designed, high revving VTEC engines... they used the K-Series which was much better low down the rev range & much more stable when tuned for 200+ bhp.
Anyways, Sean? You know that Elise has your name on it!
(Man I'm a car geek as well as reef geek! - heaven help me!)
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