What does /o/ think about Lotus Exige and Elise?

Very want. VERY. Costs more (purchase, obviously) than my E39 M5 though, even used.

Needs ecoboost

>>15659680
It has a reliable engine instead.

>>15659688
*it has an inferior engine instead

I realize their goal is lightweighting but they could far better performance with Ecoboost

>>15659645
>yfw the evora is like 3000lbs
what happened?

>>15659645
I don't care what anyone else says. I want one

>>15659697
>no

>>15659715

The Evora has 4 seats and a V6. It's not aimed at the same customers who buy the Elise/Exige for their lightweight. It's aimed at the customer who wants a more powerful and comfortable Lotus for longer trips.

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>>15659715
Remember what Lotus was about to become after getting Indianized?

>4000lbs
>4000lbs everywhere

Scary, really.
Wonder who stepped in to prevent that.

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i like them

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I wonder if these things even exist anymore. Never seen them anywhere, not even mentioned.

>>15659896
Looks "Hot"

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>>15659910

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>>15659918
lol

>>15659926
All that aero caused so much air friction it combusted the carbon fiber!

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Id get one tuned by henessy if i had money

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Are these cars a daily-drivable choice?
I mean all their cars have a Camry engine that produces beautiful sounds and thrust and even their top-end car Evora features minimal tech and they all can't go wrong, right? Like less shit means high reliability right?

>>15660099
The Evora, yes. The rest, while not intended as such, certainly possible. Exige will be stiffly sprung, Elise less so, but still pretty damn sporty, not comfy.
The modern are all more comfortable than the older ones.

>>15659940
And you'd probably never see your car again.

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>>15659879
>Wonder who stepped in to prevent that
Their Malaysian owners. Literally all of Lotus' future car projects have been scrapped. Even the little city car that might have been successful.

I got a ride in an Elise after they hit the states and it was fun as fuck. Obviously they're not very comfortable cars but they car very fast around corners and the acceleration is really, really impressive.

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I fucking love the exige. I have a thing for small sports cars and the exige appeals to me like no other. Never even driven one, but every time I see one I get excited. The Elise seems too soft and a little girly to me. The Evora is too big and fat. But the Exige is just fucking right. OP picked the wrong color though.

>>15660182
Oh, I thought it was the Malaysians (not Indians...wrong again) who wanted that shit in the first place. Well, good. All is well, then.

>>15660231
They hired an ex-Ferrari guy who had all these big ideas. He was fired pretty quickly.

>>15660182
Stretch it up a little bit and make it less angry and I hope it's RWD. I then wanna want one.

>>15660099
>Camry engine
You mean the engine from a Toyota? or a company named Camry? What you mean?

>>15659697
EcoBoost engines are blowing apart here and there while a Camry engine will last only when the universe ends.

>>15660275
>make a city car longer
>meme wheel drive
Do you even know what a city car is for?

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>>15659715
They went after the Cayman and therefore needed some comfort to steal away people who like street driving.

>>15660329
People drive big Mercedes GLS in cities but people also drive Toyota Yaris in cities and this is much longer than the car on that pic. What is your point?

>>15660279
The engine comes from a Toyota Camry

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>>15660894
I want the Evora so much. People who have driven it says the manual is the best experience they've ever had in a car. Also I think at 100k pls it's kind of a perfect stealth-wealth car which I like a lot and I love the design so much.

>>15660099
Is it possible? Yes. Would you want to? No.

They're very reliable, but not comfortable. I had an Elise. Not DD material but people do it. Evora is more DD material but it's still kind of cramped.

>>15659645
Paying half a mill for a lotus when you can get a GT500 which is just as good, throw in mods to make it faster than a lotus and have hundreds of thousands left over

>>15660894
Considering the price range that starts with 90k+ the Evora competes more with the 911 Carerra.

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>>15660939
>Paying half a mill for a lotus
The brand new supercharged Evoras are only like $100k brand new.

>>15660975
Mustangs look better, deal with it

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lotus cars- lightweight fun, unlike British women

>>15661052
no

What's the difference between an Exige and an Elise?

>>15659680
Someone is swapping a 2.0 stroked to a 2.3 with a bigger turbo into an elise

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Pretty shit. Feels like a plastic toy with a Matrix engine, because that's about what it is. Would take a Miata over it without a second thought.

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>it's another "heartbreaker is assmad about superior european sports car" post

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breddy cool

If you think about it in a weird way, they're the modern MR2. In the sense that it's a mid engine two seater sports car with a Toyota engine.

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>>15663650
>it's another "anon who will never drive the car in question somehow knows more than me about it" post

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>>15659688

>>15659645
Very difficult to lift on a 2 post hoist

>>15663740
I got it to work ok by just putting the rear pads where the LCA mounts behind the underbody tray. They probably get dumped all the time though because if you rack it by the normal jack points you can tip it backwards with your hand. F50 is the same way, have to strap the front of the car to the front rack arms or use a fixture.

>>15663769
Yeah I've given up putting them on a 2 poster and just put them on the 4. I can imagine the customer will be fairly upset if their lotus does a backflip onto the ground

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>>15659645
Great cars, but if I had the money I think I would pick an Alfa Romeo 4C over them.

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>I'ts another "b-but you've never driven it" post

lmao

I have

they are great, so sorry to hear your amerifat ass doesn't fit

>>15660909
Corolla but yeah

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>>15659645
car for queers

>>15663849
t. lolcantturn amerifat

>>15663859
-hurt queer

>>15659680
>>15659688
>>15659697
https://youtu.be/cqCsss6eVYA

>>15663834
Pick breaking down over not breaking down, nice.

>>15663811
Pick breaking down over not breaking down, nice.

>>15663844
No, the Evora has a v6 from the Camry.

my fav car. looks great but pretty cheap. doesnt really have any other good qualities besides appearance tho

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The Evora is far superior to both. It's comfy as fck and handles better than like 98% of cars.

>>15663641
>black pants
>white socks
looks like a jelly boi to me

>>15660921
>stealth-wealth car
You're right. It doesn't have the radical charm which the other cars in it's segment has but it does it's job well.

>>15663528
As you can see, the Elise is much smaller than the Exige. The main difference between these two are the downforce. The Exige is a much more track-focused car with a greater down-force exerted. Either way its a PITA to ingress and egress.

>>15663650
How about I don't know much about cars and I'm asking to the guys who know it? GTFO you fucking shit-poster.

>>15660279
You saw it right. The Evora has the engine from a Camry but it's tuned by Lotus and then a super-charger is added.