Just make the damn Elan: A letter to Lotus

Kinja'd!!! by "AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
Published 09/24/2017 at 13:28

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Lotus, we love you, over the years you’ve produced hits such as the special Exige, the wildly fun Elise, and about 5,000 lightweight versions of the Evora, but how about you add another E to your line, the Elan

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Think about it Lotus, the name has soul and history, It would be every gear head’s wet dream if you made it and I bet you people would buy it, so revenue for you. So how about you take Shia LeBeouf’s advice and Just Do It, make the new Elan


Replies (15)

Kinja'd!!! "Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 13:31, STARS: 0

Just make the new esprit

Kinja'd!!! "farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
09/24/2017 at 13:33, STARS: 0

screw that... just drop the esprit engine in a mini and make it rwd..... chapman mini is born... and its the shit :D

Kinja'd!!! "Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 13:35, STARS: 1

I’m ok with this

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
09/24/2017 at 13:37, STARS: 1

and I bet you people person would buy it

FTFY

Kinja'd!!! "farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
09/24/2017 at 13:38, STARS: 0

tbh.... even an esprit engine wont make it as awesome as the z cars minis..

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twin r1 mini :D

Kinja'd!!! "Mini Guy- Now has a 4Runner" (gavinharter30)
09/24/2017 at 13:45, STARS: 0

http://www.superfastminis.com/Midi.html just take a look at this. The people that make this are in my town and they make mini conversions with vtec engines

Kinja'd!!! "interstate366, now In The Industry" (interstate366)
09/24/2017 at 13:48, STARS: 1

rip apers0n

Kinja'd!!! "farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe)
09/24/2017 at 13:49, STARS: 1

oh man the engine noise on that...:D

Kinja'd!!! "TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
09/24/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 1

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Kinja'd!!! "2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered" (2fast2furiousfc3s)
09/24/2017 at 14:11, STARS: 0

RippersOn

Kinja'd!!! "2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered" (2fast2furiousfc3s)
09/24/2017 at 14:15, STARS: 0

Can you garenteed that another coachbuilt sportscar would be competitive with Porsche, Chevy Ford ect., If you can then that’s great. Lotus hasn’t had very much success recently and honestly if it was me looking a porsche or a lotus, I’m going porsche all the way, lotus is the worst when it comes to parts availability and such, unless it’s one of the Toyota parts they use you’ll never find it anywhere else other than from lotus. That concept looks good tho. Really lotus needs to become a more mass market sports car manufacturer before they really start to win. Hopefully geely will help fix that

Kinja'd!!! "AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/24/2017 at 14:46, STARS: 0

What are you talking about? Lotus is like Pagani, they aren’t meant to make as many cars as Ford, Porsche,or Chevy

Kinja'd!!! "2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered" (2fast2furiousfc3s)
09/24/2017 at 15:01, STARS: 0

Just because they aren’t doesn’t mean they shouldnt. The coach built era of regular sports cars is over, people want parts availability and such. I was literally saying that unless they become a dedicated manufacturer with production numbers and a market they have no point in expanding because expansion and development is expensive for a car that most people probably don’t want.

Kinja'd!!! "NojustNo" (front24200)
09/26/2017 at 14:45, STARS: 0

They probably can’t call it an elan:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.carthrottle.com/post/amp/the-elan-is-the-sportiest-kia-you-never-knew-existed/

Kinja'd!!! "AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
09/26/2017 at 15:17, STARS: 0

They called the concept an Elan, so why not the production car?