In the first of our Consumer Car Review(tm) videos, Jon Nigbor gushes about his new 2006 Lotus Elise and takes us for a ride at Sauvie Island and Portland International Raceway.
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2006 Lotus Elise Customer Car Review™
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same for evora?
same for evora?
you do relize that …
you do relize that the Elise and Exige are Track Cars First, and not road cars…
Look at it this way, Lotus is a race car company that happens to built a few street car. The focus for them is different.
It is a Yamaha …
It is a Yamaha Designed engine, it is built by Toyota and tuned by Lotus.
it has a toyota …
it has a toyota engine
Getting in and out …
Getting in and out is easy once you know how and have done it a few times.
But there are some other great advantages to this car.
1. You never have to drive to the pub on a saturday night as you cannot ferry your friends around.
2. Watching other people get in and out of the car is so funny.
3. Nobody in any chaved up boy racer type car has beaten my elise off the lights.
When you say the elise isn’t fast, it doesn’t have the top speed, but it does have the acceleration.
the inside of the …
the inside of the car looks like crap even if they wanted to keep it light its just ugly the outside looks nice
The roll up windows …
The roll up windows are actually heavier than the electric mechanism.
the lotus elise and …
the lotus elise and the vauhxhall vx220 r 2 of my favourite cars that i cud ever afford! although my favourite car excluding costs is ferrari 599.
Can’t really …
Can’t really compare the two except that they both cost a lot less than the other cars with the same performance.
I like what they did with the GTR but the Elise is just a completely different concept.
Great Car… People …
Great Car… People this is the one to get!
NISSAN GTR
NISSAN GTR
People who buy …
People who buy those cars dont live on a track. They buy them to flaunt around in and occassional race or 2 (or just race all the time) like i mentioned earlier, who would you buy a literal sports car if you drive it the speed limit? buy a mini van and haul your friends around in.
I’d race all those …
I’d race all those cars you mentioned on the track, that is where they truly shine. If you buy those cars just to launch on every stop light, then all you’re really doing is trying to compensate for a very small shortcoming.
Excellent video. …
Excellent video. Finally an amerikan thats intelligent, and recognizes a real sports car! Pure mechanical perfection!
not really… …
not really…everybody who is willing to buy a Corvette, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini…dont have the mentality of a 16 year old lol after all, with well over 400hp+ under the hood, your really not going to want to race it? if thats the case buy a van and drive the speed limit.
People with the …
People with the mentality of a 16 year will race from the stoplight whenever they can. Hopefully Elise owners are mature enough to realize that they don’t have to prove their car’s speed to a complete stranger every time some decides to rev his engine next to them.
Portland …
Portland International Raceway in Portland, Oregon. Great track about 1.9 miles long with 11 turns.
Super fast and Zero …
Super fast and Zero to 60 in 4.5… very easy to make a drag car if needed.. NOS it up! and you are well under 4 seconds!
Smokes everything in looks and style and turns heads.. something jap cars will never do…
Great video, I plan …
Great video, I plan to purchase that Elise in a few years. By the way, what song was being played in the intro?
yes, which brings …
yes, which brings me to my point…your going to get challenged by everybody and their mother at redlights BECAUSE your car “looks” fast…Lotus belongs on a track and off the street, because its such a wonderful handling car that somebody who doesnt experience the solid chassis shouldnt be behind the wheel of one. Its exotic, yes, and people who know nothing about the car will want to race you in the street
ppl wont race in …
ppl wont race in straits with a lotus…that would be stupide to do so…. why would you ever race in a strait with a car that don’t pass like 300klm/h…
in what world does …
in what world does handling exist in a straight line? because when your at a red light, anything can fly by the Lotus, throw some curves around and the car really shines…but for the majority of owners that think they are going to win races in the street, wont happen.
4.9 sec is fast …
4.9 sec is fast enough to get the attention of reviewers and owners, BUT 98% of lotus owners have a 2nd vehicle due to the fact that this is not an everyday driver. 1st and most important, you need to take yoga classes just to get in and out of the car, 2nd in a straight line its not that fast, so red light wars wont help you. This is a TRACK CAR, meaning on the weekends you take it out for a few hours and have fun then put it back in the garage. Has anybody even sat in a Lotus?
Lotus doesn’t fit …
Lotus doesn’t fit electic windows as standard because electric windows add weight.
190hp doesn’t sound like much, but 4.9s from 0-60 isn’t bad and the handling makes up for the lack of grunt.
The supercharged 220hp version will do 0-60 in in 4.3 seconds and the high end Exige (hardtop) does it in 4seconds dead.
That’s supercar-like performance, supercar-like looks, supercar-like history and supercar-like coolness for a fraction of the cost. (These things are very cheap to run too)
lol ‘country road’ …
great car though and it handles like a dream after testing one at the weekend iv got a red one with white stripes.
lol ‘country road’ more like a straight road with a slight bend in it should come to england n then ul c a country road
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