2010 Lotus Elise 1.6 S front side view

Apr

2010 Lotus Elise 1.6 S

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2010 Lotus Elise 1.6 S front side view

There is a point where sports cars are just too fast and too grippy for use on the road to enjoy. Elise has just basic proper gap between ability and that point. This gap has not diminished with the 2010 model. Different now is that the ‘S’ moniker has been dropped (the base Elise is now only ‘Elise’), 1.8-liter engine as the Toyota 1ZZ-source, is replaced by another unit of UK-built Toyota, 1ZR 1.6-liter unit, the developing (more or less) with the same 134bhp. The engine is a male child is higher, so that the rear deck just joined a few other subtle styling modifications that also drop by four percent and drag which, together with the efficiency of new machines, and a six-speed gearbox leggier than the old five-speeder, the economic means and emissions is the type you would find on petrol supermini – 45mpg on the combined cycle and 149g/km. About the same as the 1.4-liter Peugeot 207.

Virtue of 876kg kerbweight continue to give as well. Zero to 60mph takes six seconds to die. To access the full performance potential, you have to work harder than before the latest Elise. Peak power arrives at 6800rpm, peak torque of the past at 4400 ft 118 pounds. However, it is a sports car, so putting efforts in is kinda the point that I guess. You’ll work in a lower gear than you might think, too. Fourth in a six-speed unit is where you would not have been surprised to find the fifth / the not so long. Less than 4000rpm at 70mph above will not feel out of place when Elise was introduced 14 years ago, but currently there are two gears to go.