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For God Sake, Forget Ferraris and Porsches, Get a Lotus Elise.BY: Alessandro Saetta Vinci | Category: Technology | Submitted: 2010-04-26 11:49:18
I love the British. There are of course some things I don't like about them. I've never liked what they eat, for instance. I don't like their rubbish food, I don't like their rubbish gravy stuff, I've never liked what they call coffee, which to me it's just Ethiopian tinted water and I've never liked Manchester United. However, there are some British things that I adore. Their accent, their presumptuousness, the fact that they invented pretty much every sport that there is today and then forgot how to play it, their ingenuity, but what I like most about them is their cars. The Aston Martin Vanquish and the Jaguar E-Type, for example, are two of the best looking cars ever. The Mini, hate it or love it, is such a clever car and a trendsetter. And the Lotus Elise, probably my favourite of all times. Lotus Elise is light, it's fast, it's good looking, it's a convertible, and what's more, quintessentially British. Although the engine of Lotus Elise is a 1.8 liter Toyota built in Japan, it was named after the granddaughter of an Italian entrepreneur and Lotus is nowadays owned by Proton, which is Malaysian. Anyway, all details aside, I love this car, I love how it makes you feel to drive it. I love the fact that with a very low amount of money (especially if you buy it second-hand) it makes you look better and go faster than many other much more expensive and much more powerful boring sportscars. I had the chance to drive it on a Race-Track in Latina, near Rome, last Saturday. And I've gotta say. Oh my God. It's incredible how it feels, it's so composed, so precise, it actually talks to you. When you drive into a corner at -some- miles an hour, it seems to be saying to you: "alright, alright, alright, yes some more, still some more, ok stop!" It communicates to you, you feel the tires on the tarmac as if they were your feet. Use it on a wet track after a soft rain and you'll be able to count the number of drops that fell by the reactions of the steering wheel. I tried hard, I must admit, but it's almost impossible to lose control of it, it never hesitates, never has any doubt. Anyway, beyond it's fantastic looks and amazing handling and performance abilities, it does have some flaws. The carpets for instance, there isn't any. Yes there is an air conditioning system, which in the one I tried didn't work, you sit very low on very stiff seats, there is a cd player but it's useless cause you can't hear anything when you're going, it's very hot inside because the engine it's behind your back, it doesn't have any traction control, or power-assisted steering and even though it has an ABS, it's a racing ABS so unless you're braking hard at 120 mph on frozen snow, it won't react. But believe me, once you put the key in the ignition and push the button that turns the engine on, all of this, it doesn't matter. It doesn't really matter. So, here comes the big question: Would you buy one? and why? At a starting price of about 35.000 euros (ca 31.000 pounds) the Lotus Elise S version, which is the basic model with 136 bhp, it's not cheap, still a bargain for what it is, but not cheap, because that's Audi TT, Merc SLK, BMW Z4 money, and if you buy the version I've tried, the 192 bhp model, you need 45.000 euros (39.000 pounds) which is almost the same money you need for a Porsche Boxter. So why this one? Why this instead of the Porsche or the Audi or the BMW or the Mercedes? It's really simple actually. If you buy an Audi people will think: "Wow, that's a lot of money, you must have very rich parents and very lame taste." If you buy a Lotus Elise people will look at your car and think: "I don't know what the hell is that but I want one, and I also think you're a very cool guy and I hope you don't mind if I go pick up my girlfriend now, so you can have sex with her while I try to work out what the hell of car is this and can I please go for a drive?". Not to mention that there's absolutely nothing else, at human prices, this fun to drive and own. Article Source: http://www.writearticles.org/ About Author / Additional Info: Comments on this article: (0 comments so far)
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