Lotus Testing “Something” at Nürburgring
It looks like Lotus is expanding their line-up with just another Elise model when looking at this Elise testing on the Nürburgring. Who in their right mind doesn’t love or covet the Lotus Elise? It’s cheap. Reliable. Fast as all get up. And weighs about the same as a small dog.
“At first it looks mostly like the track only Elise S Cup R with its body kit and big rear wing,” an insider source says. “But then we see that the external battery isolator switch and the external button for the fire extinguisher are missing making us believe that Lotus might be working on a road going version of the Elise S Cup R. If that’s the fact, it could probably be revealed at the Paris motor show in October.”
The Elise is literally the benchmark of performance whenever a company or an individual wants to create a lightweight sports car. Seriously, every single light sports car since the model’s inception has been bench marked against it.
The Boxster, the 4C, the Toyobaru twins, even some other weirder cars have been bench marked from the Elise, at least in the handling department, like the Hyundai Equus.
That’s why whenever we all get wind of a new Elise, you start to see every auto journalist start to salivate and start ringing up the UK to press the PR reps for a drive when it finally debuts. And I’m guessing the folks at Lotus just got a hell of a lot of phone calls.
Earlier this week, our spy photographers caught an Elise going around the Nürburgring. For some that’s not news. Elises are there all the freaking time. But this one had something different about it. A MASSIVE REAR WING!
Ok, so there was a lot more to the car than the wing, but seriously, that thing is huge! In addition to the rear spoiler, the front lip spoiler and the rear under tray look to be going for metric tons of down force.
But here’s the thing, the Elise has never been that powerful to really need all this downforce. Couple this with the fact that Lotus is being fairly tight lipped about the car which makes us think that it’s possibly a mule for something coming soon.
Let’s hope everyone’s favorite lightweight sports car is going to be debuted soon. Here’s what I hope is actually under that skin!
