Enough with the Elise already - there's more than one Hero-worthy Lotus from the nineties 💛
The reaction of the Caterham driver said it all, really. There we both were, travelling in opposite directions in our spritely British sports cars, making the most of a clear day to enjoy drop-top roadsters. Kindred spirits surely wouldn’t be unreasonable, both folk who enjoyed driving for the sake of driving. Yet a waved hand in acknowledgment was greeted with a stony stare, eyes fixed on the straight ahead and no returned gesture. Nothing. The snub could hardly have been clearer.
A recession is never a good time to be selling sports cars as a small manufacturer - Porsche was in much the same boat, let's not forget. But the job of the Elan was made 100 times worse by the Mk1 Mazda MX-5, revealed just a few months earlier in 1989 and - for many - fulfilling the role of a Lotus Elan for the 1990s better than the actual Lotus Elan did. It was small, pretty, rear-wheel drive and affordable: where the Lotus was £20k, the MX-5 was less than £15k.
What’s entirely in keeping with the script is how much faster the Elan is than the equivalent Mazda; it was the more expensive and more powerful car. Most to be found out there now are turbocharged, 167hp versions, rather than the 130hp naturally aspirated model, of which few were sold even in a modest production run.
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