Auto Express Selects Lotus Elise

[GreyKnight]

Bought the special issue Auto Express today to read the article on the new SEAT Leon (ugly as hell). The main feature though is the World's Top 50 Fastest Cars and the Lotus Elise features in the 1990-1999 category (S1 Elise). Okay so it's not exactly a "fast car", but they have put it in the same line up as:-

 

Dodge Viper

Renault Clio Williams

TVR Griffith 500

Honda NSX

Ford Escort RS Cosworth

Subaru Impreza Turbo 4WD

Bugatti EB110

 

Some pretty prestigious cars to be ranked alongside there

 

Their ode to the Lotus Elise was as follows:-

 

At the opposite end of the scale was the Elise, a superb example of handling science in action.  The unrivalled chassis expertise produced a compact, stripped down, two seat roadster in the best tradition of the marque.  It's already accepted as one of the finest sports cars ever, it's all round performance utterly scintillating.

 

So there you go...

[Martin R]

You did say S1 elise

[GreyKnight]

Yes, yes I did...

[gerags]

They missed out the part about it being "dripping with testosterone"

 

[Steve J]

They missed out the part about it being "dripping with oestrogen"

 

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[pizzaboy]

More like dripping with water on the inside . Manufacturers of many a supercar always always lay claims of "handles like an elise". Great to know its a legendary benchmark for this area. I can pull up to Mr NSX and say.."yea...you know Honda try an make your car handle like mines" hehe!