RE: Elise: Buyers Guide
Friday 1st March 2002
Elise: Buyers Guide
Our man Laurie Vaughn has just bought an Elise. He shares this thoughts about the buying process.
Discussion
Nice intro Laurie!
One minor correction, the brake supplier (Lanxide) didn't go bust - they are still around. I believe they made a batch of disks at a promotional price for Lotus original projected production run of 2500 cars, then when volumes escalated it wasn't economic to tool up for mass production and Lotus switched to steel as a fallback. There was also the "interesting" wet weather performance of the MMCs to consider.
Cheers,
AdrianR
One minor correction, the brake supplier (Lanxide) didn't go bust - they are still around. I believe they made a batch of disks at a promotional price for Lotus original projected production run of 2500 cars, then when volumes escalated it wasn't economic to tool up for mass production and Lotus switched to steel as a fallback. There was also the "interesting" wet weather performance of the MMCs to consider.
Cheers,
AdrianR
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