Ready to Rumble

[Gasblaster]

The TVR will be a great car for making a lovely noise in and posing around town on a saturday evening, and the Lotus will be fabulous for having a heart stopping ball in. I am reminded of a quote I once read, Graham Arnold, he of Club Lotus, was driving the then new Elite M50 with Lotus's Techincal Director Tony Rudd in the passenger seat. In the middle of some rather enthusiastic cornering Tony piped up "Remeber Graham, the Lotus will always make it round, but you could meet a TVR doing the same speed the other way, and the TVR will always be out of shape".

Posted in the lotus elsie forum ! Gentlemen, start your engines!

[simpo one]

Possibly. But I don't want to drive an aluminium box that looks like a squashed frog...

1.8 engine? My kettle's bigger than that....

[2 sheds]

From experience at trackdays the Elise (a fair comparison to say a Tamora) is very swift through the corners, but not that much better than a well driven TVR, just a different technique, TVR slow in fast out, Lotus medium speed everywhere !! the exit speed in a TVR is awesome. Lotus is a very impressive buzzbox though.
Tim

>> Edited by 2 sheds on Saturday 16th November 11:32