Wednesday 9th July 2003

Hot under the Collar

Denial issued as Lotus get fed up with the rumours

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[DanH]

Well if its true and not merely carefully worded obfuscation, pants.

[squirrelz]

Umm.. without wishing to appear picky, "There have been rumours for a long time now that Rover might be about to ditch the K Series in favour of another power plant for the Elise."

Surely it would be Lotus ditching the K Series, not Rover.

[Mr Fix it]

Just goes to show how stupid those people at Lotus are. It may be a British thing, them not listening to their customers, since if they did and changed their engine they would have such a demand that they would have to do some work!!

[Captain Muppet]

Mr Fix it said:

Just goes to show how stupid those people at Lotus are.

Remind us - which sportcar manufacturer do you run?

[alunr]

Mr Fix it said:

Just goes to show how stupid those people at Lotus are. It may be a British thing, them not listening to their customers, since if they did and changed their engine they would have such a demand that they would have to do some work!!

I've said it before but putting a bigger engine in the elise will compromise the marketing of any other models they add to the range ie M250 replacement, Esprit replacemet etc.

[cuzza]

alunr said:

I've said it before but putting a bigger engine in the elise will compromise the marketing of any other models they add to the range ie M250 replacement, Esprit replacemet etc.

IMHO it doesn't need a bigger engine anyway

[alunr]

cuzza said:

alunr said: I've said it before but putting a bigger engine in the elise will compromise the marketing of any other models they add to the range ie M250 replacement, Esprit replacemet etc. IMHO it doesn't need a bigger engine anyway

Exactly! It will be a different car in the same way an Exige is a different car to an elise.

[roosevelt]

'car' magazine suggests that Elise to get 190bhp Toyota 1.8l VVTi engine for the third generation Lizzie. 'car' seems to get its wires crossed implying this engine for all versions, guess they'll use it for US car....