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post #31 of 34
1/28/10 at 12:44am
I love that picture.

"I am an alien!"
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post #32 of 34
1/28/10 at 1:17am
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Originally Posted by GQgeek View Post
horsepower and torque are horsepower and torque imo. I'm glad they use reliable engines that don't cost a fortune to maintain. Nimbleness and awesome cornering are what lotus is about, not brute force performance. It's not trying to be a supercar.


As a serial Lotus owner, I concur. The early cars were a love/hate deal: loved driving them (Dan Neil doesn't even come close to expressing the feeling of driving a 1959 Elite or an Elan). Hated everything else about them. The Brits had no inkling of electricity or reliability (still don't, which is why titties owns Jaguar and Land Rovers are all trash). Reliability as we have come to expect it today was just the sigh of a never-to-arrive dream. In fact, along with our Lucas jokes, we said that Lotus stood for: Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious.

The fact that Lotus has partnered with Toyota was a huge step of maturity, and a long way from the use of an engine that powered the water-hose pump motor of a fire truck.

Give me a modern, lightweight, reliable, 150 hp 4 cylinder engine paired with a modern Getrag 6 speed in a 1959 Lotus Elite and I would have a monster on the track and likely get 40mpg on the road.
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post #33 of 34
1/28/10 at 12:53pm
http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/CAR-Fea...The-Year-2009/ and the winner is ............... the Evora
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post #34 of 34
1/28/10 at 3:38pm
^^ do you have the text?
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