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Originally Posted by zr1fan
One could probably argue that compared to its contemporaries, it was in a similar bracket performance-wise as the Elise is today. Though they didn't share the same sales success. The reasons for that could be the stigma you all are representing so well of FWD, the price, the market at the time (sports cars were on the downturn in the mid 90's), or who knows what.
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But for the pre-selling of the Elise because it was in Europe for years before it got the USA, the extreme nature of the car, and what I believe is the fact that Arnie Johnson demanded that the the Elise stay close to 40K, our cars could have had the same market problems as the Elan. I would also have to say if the Elise came out at the price point it is now, it may have suffered the same fate. But we may be suffering that now as I also think that is why there are cars on the lots and problems with sales. Car is just too high priced and too much of a compromise to compete with other cars the Porsche/Corvette/BMW crowd want to buy. (Which it needs to compete with to sell the number of cars Lotus wants to sell)
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