On the picture you can see the Lotus Elise S2, which was built from 2000-2010. Meanwhile the Elise is in the 3rd series and presumably it is about to be replaced.
What many people do not know is that the Elise S2 is the technical basis for some sister models, such as Lotus Exige, Lotus Europa and also the Tesla Roadster, Opel Speedster, Melkus RS2000, Rinspeed sQuba and a few more.
The Elise S2 is a lightweight between 740 and 950 kg and with up to 221 hp internally equipped, which was and still is driven with even more powerful engines also for - and racing.
The model is a Lotus Elise S2 Supercharged or the Lotus Elise SC, which was launched in 2008 as the top model (supercharged). This meant that with supercharged, it had an engine output of 163 kW (222 hp) and only had to push 903 kg of unladen weight, which corresponds to a power-to-weight ratio of 4.1 kg/hp. Correspondingly, it took only 4.6 seconds to go from 0 to 100 km/h. The Elise SC was the only one to get a rear wing, standard forged aluminium wheels and a different tank. New price for the Elise SC in Germany was about 50.000 Euro.
I have been practicing vintage car photography for more than 35 years and here I mainly photograph normal everyday vehicles which were still on the road en masse over 30 years ago. But also cars with extraordinary, beautiful design. From time to time I take pictures of cars, .. Read more…