About the Lotus elise

A Lotus is unlike any other sports car. You can feel the difference within the first few miles. The relationship between car and driver is extraordinarily close, and because of this intimacy you feel more in control, more in touch with the way the car handles and behaves.

If you love cars, prepare to be seduced. What one immediately notices upon clambering into the Elise is that you are essentially sitting on the road, looking out at other cars at license plate level. Every system involved in the motion of the Elise speaks to the driver clearly and honestly, as if they were designed by a Puritanical engineer bent on undoing the showy complexity that muddles more decadent automobiles.

In stark contrast to the roadsters made by luxury car manufactures, the Lotus lacks some of the luxuries we have all come to expect, but as every automotive anglophile knows, it is these sacrifices that separate those in the know from those who merely pose.