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The Lotus Elise is a sports car conceived in early 1994 and released in September 1996 by the British manufacturer Lotus Cars.A two-seater roadster with a rear mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, the Elise has a fibreglass body shell atop its bonded extruded aluminium chassis that provides a rigid platform for the suspension, while keeping weight and production costs to a minimum.
Elise: 111 roadster 1996 2021 Elan S2 Emira 3-Eleven: 129 speedster: 2015 2018 2-Eleven 2-Eleven: 122 speedster 2007 2011 340R 3-Eleven Europa S: 121 sports car 2006 2010 Esprit Exige 340R: 117 speedster 2000 2000 2-Eleven Elan S2: 100 roadster 1989 1995 Elise Excel: 89 grand tourer 1982 1992 Eclat Evora Esprit: 79 supercar 1976 2004 Europa ...
Lotus 72 Lotus 77 Lotus 99T Lotus E20. In its early days, ... win at Le Mans with a 2.0 L FPF engine. Lotus 60 ... is based on the Elise chassis. On 11 July 2005 ...
The Tesla Roadster is a battery electric sports car, that is based on the Lotus Elise chassis, and was produced by Tesla Motors (now Tesla, Inc.) from 2008 to 2012.The Roadster was the first highway legal, serial production, all-electric car to use lithium-ion battery cells, and the first production all-electric car to travel more than 244 miles (393 km) per charge. [7]
Side view of a 340R. The engine is a four-cylinder version of the 1.8L Rover K-Series engine called VHPD (Very High Power Derivative) used in the regular Elise which produces 177 bhp (132 kW; 179 PS) at 7800 rpm and 172 N⋅m (127 lbf⋅ft) at 6750 rpm as standard, or 187 bhp (139 kW; 190 PS) at 7500 rpm and 189 N⋅m (139 lbf⋅ft) at 5600 rpm with optional Lotus accessories.
In October 1999, a deal was made between Lotus and General Motors in order for the former to gain sufficient funds to develop a new Elise. [4] As part of the deal, Lotus agreed to develop and produce the Opel Speedster and Vauxhall VX220 on a variation of its new Series 2 Elise chassis, having a 30mm longer wheelbase and lower door sills ...
In 2005, Lotus released images of a new GT type car called the Lotus Europa S. Based on the Lotus Elise , the car was officially introduced at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show . Production commenced in July 2006 and continued until 2010.
With this in mind, Lotus set about to develop their racing car. Lotus decided to abandon the aged Esprit chassis and instead turn to its new sports car, the Elise. Lotus knew that the Elise's inline-4 engine would not be competitive so it was initially decided that the car would use the 3.5 L V8 engine from the Esprit sports car. However ...