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View Poll Results: Lotus Elan (original)
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subzero
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cool
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seriously uncool
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12-02-2005, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Lotus Elan (original)
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12-02-2005, 12:38 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Lugano, Switzerland
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As light as your shoe and actually not much bigger.. you can jump in and drive it and it won't smell as bas  sounds pretty cool to me
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12-02-2005, 01:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Third Planet, Solar System
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Subzero with Mrs Peel 
To be serious, i'd say cool for its chassis, its twin cam engine (very nice sound) and its styling
a better pic :arrow: 
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12-02-2005, 01:06 PM
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Location: The Netherlands
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Subzero. Epitome of Lotus' philisophy, much cooler than todays overweight cars...
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12-02-2005, 01:13 PM
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Location: Detroit
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only one lotus in my mind reaches a less then cool status, and this isn't it 
definately cool
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12-02-2005, 01:31 PM
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#6
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12-02-2005, 06:24 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: not where i want to be.. but life's a bitch i guess..
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COOL 8)
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12-03-2005, 05:16 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: The Basque Country
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Naturally subzero since it has been one of the best sport cars ever made and i have always adored the Colin Chapmanīs vision, concepts, ideas....and the elan is not an exception....however IMO the lotus failed a bit when they launched the front wheel drive elan a few years ago...however the corrected it launching the elise afterwords
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12-03-2005, 05:24 PM
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*Goes way out on a limb by himself to guess whether this response will get him lynched*..
Uncool.. ITs just ugly.
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12-03-2005, 08:01 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Canada
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Not an Esprit nor a Elise... sorry, have to vote for uncool just cause of the look.
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05-28-2008, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by graywolf624
*Goes way out on a limb by himself to guess whether this response will get him lynched*..
Uncool.. ITs just ugly.
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Ever seen one in person?
You'd reconsider in a heartbeat.
Then again I'm olde enough to remember new Esprits.
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06-07-2008, 03:34 AM
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Location: Sydney, Australia
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Seeing one makes you want to jump in and take it for a spin. Cool. 
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06-07-2008, 12:56 PM
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Houston
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Cool in its day as it was very unique stateside. Never really lusted after one when they were newer. Europa for some reason got my attention at the time.
Today - too many other cars I would rather have first. Actually with the rising prices of "collectible" cars a new Lotus would seem like a much better choice for someone as lazy and untalented at tinkering as me.
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10-20-2009, 08:11 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Oslo, Norway
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I couldn't decide what to vote for this car. Sure, it's light chassis, great handling and gutsy engine make one of the greatest sports cars of all time. But the styling is a bit awkward. But maybe that doesn't matter because it is indeed 60's chic.
And it's a car that I want.
And Gordon Murray likes it.
Ergo, sub zero from me!
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