My drive with 4 Elises today...
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My drive with 4 Elises today...
Was invited to take a tour of most of southern Indiana today with 4 Elise drivers. Had a BLAST. Unfortunately, it was raining pretty much all day (reason why the cars became so filthy...). But, it was still an amazing drive. I actually had no trouble whatsoever keeping up. :D We did have a couple of mishaps, though. I hit some sort of large animal carcass which ripped up the plastic undertray, and put a dent in the radiator fins... And, the guy in the red Lotus ended up hitting a nasty patch of road and caught a guardrail. Only caused superficial damage (thankfully), but tore up one light and most of his hood. Everyone's perfectly fine, though.
Anyways, here are some pics...
Anyways, here are some pics...
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The Elise did not do too well here in California on the track. Too slow.
And this was with a regular track guy.
Still a great car just not one that will kick *** over the 8 and others.
And this was with a regular track guy.
Still a great car just not one that will kick *** over the 8 and others.
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the elise will easily kick the 8's ***, I have no idea what you are talking about. Unless in california they are not making the same power for emissions reasons, but I don't ever recall reading anything like that.
Anyways, very nice pics man, looks like fun.
Anyways, very nice pics man, looks like fun.
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Check Road and Track and other stats. They are about the same in handling but have a small engine. It's like a Miata I do believe. Something like 160HP
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit, OK Ok so it's 190. but that's only about 140 RWHP.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit, OK Ok so it's 190. but that's only about 140 RWHP.
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Galls me that they'd take a Toyota engine, slap a plastic "Lotus Performance" plaque on the cam cover, and sell the car for that much. Beautiful body, though.
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Originally Posted by Razz1
Check Road and Track and other stats. They are about the same in handling but have a small engine. It's like a Miata I do believe. Something like 160HP
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit, OK Ok so it's 190. but that's only about 140 RWHP.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit, OK Ok so it's 190. but that's only about 140 RWHP.
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I can assure you first hand the Elise handles much better then an 8. I had one of the first deposits on one in Tampa and after waiting over a year for it to come in the dealer let me out of the deal cause the check engine light would not go off and it took them over a month to get a program from England. Anyways I bought an M3 instead...but my dealer at the time let me take the demo out often while waiting for my car to be fixed and the elise is stuck to the ground like glue. It is almost impossible to send it out of control. I mean you can take this thing around curves as fast as you dare and it just turns. The Elise however gives you a ruff ride and of course it is not the most comfortable car. Get up and go is almost llike a sport motorcycle, the power is always there... But when it is said and done the Rx8 takes my vote over the Elise that I almost owned and the M3 that I do own and selling for the Rx8.
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As far as the post stating that they took a toyota engine and slapped a Lotus plaque on it, that is not right...Lotus is famous for improving on current engine types....The engineers remapped the electronics of the engine and it does not perform like a regular toyota engine. Its power curve is dif.
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Originally Posted by EyeBall Fixer...(o)(x)
Does anyone else think these look like cheap kit cars...?
Anyone...?
Anyone...?
I think they look great...nice clean look to the interior.
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Hot looking cars! I kinda like the red with the black stripe. Looks classy. Those size of those cars make the rx8 look like a hulking ogre. Great pics ... sorry to hear about the dead carcass damage.
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Originally Posted by Razz1
Check Road and Track and other stats. They are about the same in handling but have a small engine. It's like a Miata I do believe. Something like 160HP
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit, OK Ok so it's 190. but that's only about 140 RWHP.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit, OK Ok so it's 190. but that's only about 140 RWHP.
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Originally Posted by PoorCollegeKid
It actually has ~160-168 rwhp, or about 10 more than the 180hp Celica GTS. That much power in a 19xx lb car is enough to propel it through a 1/4 mile in the low 13s if it's driven well, which makes sense considering an RX8 with 10-15 more rwhp and ~1000lbs more weight runs the same distance in the mid-high 14s. The Elise is no slouch in the acceleration department, despite what it's somewhat meager power numbers may lead you to believe.
Nice pics btw, it's funny that the 8 looks so big in those pics.
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Originally Posted by vectorwolf
Was invited to take a tour of most of southern Indiana today with 4 Elise drivers. Had a BLAST. Unfortunately, it was raining pretty much all day (reason why the cars became so filthy...). But, it was still an amazing drive. I actually had no trouble whatsoever keeping up. :D We did have a couple of mishaps, though. I hit some sort of large animal carcass which ripped up the plastic undertray, and put a dent in the radiator fins... And, the guy in the red Lotus ended up hitting a nasty patch of road and caught a guardrail. Only caused superficial damage (thankfully), but tore up one light and most of his hood. Everyone's perfectly fine, though.
Anyways, here are some pics...
Anyways, here are some pics...
Jay and you didn't share?? I think I saw the red one with the black stripes on I-69 this morning. Hope your car is ok...
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Originally Posted by Ellar
Galls me that they'd take a Toyota engine, slap a plastic "Lotus Performance" plaque on the cam cover, and sell the car for that much. Beautiful body, though.
Originally Posted by PoorCollegeKid
It actually has ~160-168 rwhp, or about 10 more than the 180hp Celica GTS. That much power in a 19xx lb car is enough to propel it through a 1/4 mile in the low 13s if it's driven well, which makes sense considering an RX8 with 10-15 more rwhp and ~1000lbs more weight runs the same distance in the mid-high 14s. The Elise is no slouch in the acceleration department, despite what it's somewhat meager power numbers may lead you to believe.
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Originally Posted by foxman
Jay and you didn't share?? I think I saw the red one with the black stripes on I-69 this morning. Hope your car is ok...
And I can assure everyone that the elise is quite noticeably faster in a straight line, at ANY speed. The driver of the red/striped car brought a DVD-camcorder along, so I may be able to post some video if some of it turned out ok.