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Heyo everyone,
I've tried searching a few times but couldn't find a recent thread that deals with this question:
I'm a 25 year old Australian coming to the USA in May for a couple weeks and am planning on hiring a car from Vegas and driving through Death Valley, up to Yosemite, down to Sequoia and back to Vegas. I would love an Elise because I've always loved Lotus and what they stand for. I currently drive a Renaultsport Clio, a 'hothatch', sort of like a Golf GTI or Mini Cooper S. I find it absurdly easy to drive quickly through the corners on the winding roads in my area.
My question is: I know an Elise is such an entirely different car (RWD vs FWD, mid engine, etc) but if I try to drive up the twisting roads through Yosemite and Sequoia (without being silly, just not being Miss Daisy's chauffeur), am I going to end up off a cliff or in a tree? How hard are they to drive compared to supersimple hothatches? If I drive it into a corner at a similar speed I would my Clio, would it follow the corner in a similar point-and-shoot sort of way? (if I keep the speed constant of course, I assume if you bury your foot half way through a corner the tail will overtake you and you can say bye bye)
Also, is it true that if you hit a pothole in one of these you can stack the car? Surely they cant be that bad otherwise all the rentals would be already crashed by now wouldn't they?
If anyone has any comments about the road trip I'm planning I'd welcome those too, but I have already read through the threads that mention Yosemite and found them most helpful.
tl;dr is a rented Elise going to get me killed because my only driving experience is in FWD hothatches?
I've tried searching a few times but couldn't find a recent thread that deals with this question:
I'm a 25 year old Australian coming to the USA in May for a couple weeks and am planning on hiring a car from Vegas and driving through Death Valley, up to Yosemite, down to Sequoia and back to Vegas. I would love an Elise because I've always loved Lotus and what they stand for. I currently drive a Renaultsport Clio, a 'hothatch', sort of like a Golf GTI or Mini Cooper S. I find it absurdly easy to drive quickly through the corners on the winding roads in my area.
My question is: I know an Elise is such an entirely different car (RWD vs FWD, mid engine, etc) but if I try to drive up the twisting roads through Yosemite and Sequoia (without being silly, just not being Miss Daisy's chauffeur), am I going to end up off a cliff or in a tree? How hard are they to drive compared to supersimple hothatches? If I drive it into a corner at a similar speed I would my Clio, would it follow the corner in a similar point-and-shoot sort of way? (if I keep the speed constant of course, I assume if you bury your foot half way through a corner the tail will overtake you and you can say bye bye)
Also, is it true that if you hit a pothole in one of these you can stack the car? Surely they cant be that bad otherwise all the rentals would be already crashed by now wouldn't they?
If anyone has any comments about the road trip I'm planning I'd welcome those too, but I have already read through the threads that mention Yosemite and found them most helpful.
tl;dr is a rented Elise going to get me killed because my only driving experience is in FWD hothatches?