Anyone ever heard of a manufacturer called Lotus? Its in alot of video games i've played like Midnight Club 3 and Forza Motorsport. The most popular model seems to be the Elise. Anyone ever herd of it?

I hope this is a joke. If it's not however, here's your answer. Lotus is a British sports car manufacturer. Their current largest production is of the Elise, though they have made (not sure if they still do or not) a car called the Esprit. Their current Elise runs a Toyota engine (from the Corolla and uptuned another 10 hp over the max that the Corolla runs). It is an extremely light weight car, at aobut 1900 pounds, and can pull over 1 g on the skid pad (some reports as high as 1.08 g). It is incredibly small inside and out, so if you are bigger than 5'10" and about 170 pounds it's not a good car for you. The design almost looks like it was based on the Toyota MRS (which is possible, since the original MR2 wasa lotus design itself). All in all, a great trakc car, or even autocross.

just a quick note, yes they still do make the esprit. And lotus is aextremly awesome car company. but the reason you don't see many of them is that they are rarely imported into the U.S. you would have to go to England or somwhere like there to see one.

I've seen a couple of them here in the Coachella Valley, including a pretty little orange Elise in the parking lot of the Best Buy.

Elise is nice cars and there quick but there max speed is like... 120-135 and that really sucks ass because there very fast getting to that point but after that they wont get anywhere

Top speed is a drag limited 141 mph, which is kinda low, but not too bad considering the engine is only 1.8 liters and not very high on torque or hp overall (compared to its weight it's not too bad, but it could still use more).

all in all though that is still a stock car you are talking about so it is pretty good

Ive seen Elise's with B18C5's and K20A2's in them, and lets just say they diddnt look very close to stock anymore.

ok but still a stock elise is still pretty good

yes they look got and quick getting to that but even my brothers focus has hit 145 and not been near maxed so.. i dunno.. byt yeah there quick and look sweet

man lotus cars are just for old men goin through a mid life crisis but they are amazing track cars
the cars just aint practicle for people over 5" 8

What about Nismo400R's, are those practical?

hell yeah mother trucker well practical down the shop in 2 secs and i can fit in it without having to cut a hole in the roof

they are pretty fun to drive, i use to have a lotus customer back in the day, his car was always fun to drive the shit out of

Dont forget about the new Lotus Exige.