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PH Annual Service | Analogue Terra

We've been blown away by the Supersport; now Analogue Automotive wants to take the Elise off the beaten track

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The only thing better than one awesome Lotus Elise is two, and that’s exactly what we have lined up at PH Annual Service this weekend. As well as HPE’s R500 build, there’s also something new from Analogue Automotive, makers of the wonderful Supersport. This is the Terra (earth or land in Latin), commissioned by the Raw Bike Company and Cannondale, designed to take all that was good about AA’s incredible Elise into a very different dimension. 

To achieve its off-road goals, the Terra now has Kevlar underbody protection, in case drivers use up all 200mm of ground clearance. The Elise now sits 60mm higher than usual on custom Ohlins dampers, so expect all the lovely old Lotus sensations to be even more accessible with the car raised up. Not that this will be some cushy off-roader, of course; the Terra keeps the widetrack suspension upgrade that makes the Supersport such a joy, and is said to be inspired by rally raid builds. There’s more Kevlar used for the body panels, to make the Terra as tough as it looks, onto which there’s that Seasucker mount. No way Cannondale and the Raw Bike Company were going to spec a car without one of those. 

Under the bonnet sits the same 200hp evolution of the K Series that made the Supersport so thrilling; we’d assume the manual is being carried over also, unless they’ve gone full rally car and fitted a sequential. Power reaches the road through Michelin Cross Climate all-season tyres, with 16-inch wheels. So it all sounds like an absolute hoot and looks it too - in much the same way that the Project Safari Elise does, perhaps, but there’s surely no such thing as too many rally raid roadsters in the world. 

We’re still waiting on final details from Analogue about the Terra, this being from its Special Operations division and the very first time it’s left HQ - but the firm has already confirmed that ASO projects like this one start at £200k plus donor and taxes. Expect it on the road (and hopefully off it) in the coming months. 

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• Analogue Automotive Supersport | PH Review

[BigChiefmuffinAgain]

Answers a question that I am not sure anyone has ever thought of asking....

[PorkerHam]

That looks......odd

[LotusOmega375D]

I honestly didn’t know about this market for £200,000 / £300,000 Lotus Elise S1s. Lotus themselves are missing a trick!

[911Spanker]

Elise S1 prices will be shooting up soon once they have all be buggered up.

[miniman]

BigChiefmuffinAgain said:

Answers a question that I am not sure anyone has ever thought of asking....

My thoughts entirely!

[nismo48]

PorkerHam said:

That looks......odd

+1

[Tickle]

Love the stuff Analogue are doing, not so much this one though.

And surely an S1 driver wouldn't have an ebike!

[Slowlygettingit]

Err….. where does the bikes front wheel go?

[Slowlygettingit]

Also think I’d go a 911 Dakar for about the same price if that was how I got my jollies

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/18898988

[GTRene]

Slowlygettingit said:

Err….. where does the bikes front wheel go?

it sits in the trunk, its a very small wheel, so it fits

like the wheel of such old bike, with big rear you sit high and a small front wheel... ow its the otherw ay around



so I guess they use the front wheel of a kids bike so it fits in the trunk.



I like the car though, but would buy me a nice 25k one

[leggerito]

911Spanker said:

Elise S1 prices will be shooting up soon once they have all be buggered up.

I’m so done with this ‘restomod’ era of Elises. None have bettered the original S1, and these off-road ones are just dreadful wastes.

[Sion111R]

Slowlygettingit said:

Err….. where does the bikes front wheel go?

Perhaps they should market it as a central passenger position?

[Nobody13]

Slowlygettingit said:

Also think I’d go a 911 Dakar for about the same price if that was how I got my jollies

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/18898988

Agreed, if off road sports car is what you want, then the Porsche is where most people would go.

Edited by Nobody13 on Saturday 9th August 15:51

[Nobody13]

I wish I could afford an Analogue Automotive SuperSport, however, this doesn't interest me at all.

Edited by Nobody13 on Saturday 9th August 15:51

[Tickle]

Nobody13 said:

Slowlygettingit said:

Also think I’d go a 911 Dakar for about the same price if that was how I got my jollies

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/18898988

Agreed, if off road sports car is what you want, then the Porsche is where most people would go.

Edited by Nobody13 on Saturday 9th August 15:51

Or this and some change for a 'regular S1 Elise'

https://www.pistonheads.com//buy/listing/18797188

[SydneyBridge]

GF Williams, automotive photographer, is involved in something similar

https://www.getlostautomotive.com/projectsafari

https://gfwilliams.net/portfolio/getlost/

[Baddie]

Just what the Elise’s tub was made for…

Can’t believe that’s the same money as a Dakar.

[AlandSoph]

Two Hundred Thousand pounds plus a decent Elise for what exactly? A jacked up, impossible to access roadster that was originally built to be a 'cheap' fun car for trackdays and weekend amusement. Not for me. As others have pointed out, you can get a Dakar Porsche for that, or a Nomad and over 150 grand to enjoy.. crazy.

[Motorsport3]

That cannondale looks nearly as heavy as the car it sits on!

Quiz - where is the front wheel of the bike?

Edited by Motorsport3 on Monday 11th August 06:55

[dinkel]

Well, cough... I dunno