You voted in unprecedented numbers, and it wasn't even close: the Series 1 is emphatically the people's choice.
There are some big anniversaries in 2023. You might have heard. It’s 80 years since 617 Squadron RAF Bomber Command went bowling in the Ruhr Valley; 75 years since the birth of our great NHS; and 50 years since Concorde, beautiful Concorde, made its first transatlantic crossing in the record-breaking time of 3 hours, 32 minutes. Seismic events, all three of them - but the one we’re drawing your attention to right now is our own milestone: 25 years of PH.
Well, the first category has been decided. And after more than 10,000 votes, it wasn't even close: the Series One Lotus Elise took the crown buy a country mile. In fact, it received nearly twice the votes of the second-placed car, which, in case you’re wondering, was the Porsche 997 Carrera. The 997 is a great car, no doubting that, but the Elise is something exceptional. It has a purity that goes far beyond what even a great 911 can offer.
Partly, that was because it had an Isuzu engine and partly because it was wrong-wheel drive. But its biggest challenge came from outside the factory gates. In the same year that the Elan was launched, Mazda sprung the MX-5 on the world; a car that was arguably closer to Lotus’s ethos than the new Lotus. The MX-5 was a few-frills, lightweight, proper little rear-wheel-drive sports car, and the world went bonkers for it. Meanwhile, Lotus sold just 4,700 Elans between 1989 and 1995.
The fibreglass body was designed by Julian Thomson, whose love of the Ferrari Dino inspired the Series One’s shape. You can see the Dino’s influence clearly in the form of the front wings, the cooling ducts running from the doors into the rear wings, and the curved windscreen that wraps around the driver. Meanwhile, the name comes via another legendary car maker.
These days hypercars can really only be enjoyed fully on track, whereas the Elise is a car you can take out at any time, whenever the mood takes you - and it’s a blast. The rewards of revving it out and leaning on its relatively low grip are where the fun of a car is for me. When you’re living at the upper reaches of the rev limiter and hearing the tyres squealing as the tread blocks begin to scrub across the road, that's when you and a car become one.
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