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The point of a Lotus Elise is that it has excellent handling, you don't buy it for straight line speed.
by rythie 16y ago
The point of a Lotus Elise is that it has excellent handling, you don't buy it for straight line speed.
- bmelton 16y agoTraditionally, that is true. But this isn't a Lotus Elise, it's an electric. Many people will buy Hybrids/Eco-cars to make a statement, and if it happens to smoke your gas-guzzler in a drag race, all the better. The point is that the Tesla Roadster has selling points that aren't invalidated by a negative review on Top Gear and that, even if it were, they did a good job of making it look like a ton of fun, if not entirely practical. People paying 6 figures for cars are seldom looking for practicality in the same sense that most people do -- they're looking for something special, and there's no denying that the Tesla has that in spades. Edit: Swapped 'hybrid' for 'electric'.
- rythie 16y agoMy comment was a direct response to "It's a Lotus Elise that outperforms the Lotus Elise on straightaways. Faults or not, I have a hard time believing that they're aren't going to sell cars based on that fact alone."
- bmelton 16y agoThen you are correct.
- unwind 16y agoA hybrid between what and what, exactly? The Tesla Roadster is 100% electric, there's no hybrid technology involved.
- bmelton 16y agoI was apparently editing that right as you made that remark. You are of course correct.
- chadgeidel 16y agoWil Shipley sold his Elise SC (supercharged - about 250 HP in a ~2100 pound package) because the Tesla roadster was faster around an autocross track. http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/09/tesla-v-supercharged-lotus-elise.html http://wilshipley.com/blog/2008/09/tesla-v-supercharged-lotu...