ARCHIVES 2005-2006 Lotus Elise The barebones Elise has been a longtime best seller in Europe. This purest of sports cars has hit the United States running, with a powerful Toyota engine and a few

ARCHIVES 2005-2006 Lotus Elise Pros : -Amazing handling. - Powerful Toyota inline-four. - Light as a feather. - Quick acceleration. - Perfectly balanced chassis. Cons : -Too cramped for long

the Maserati GranTurismo and the Lotus 2 Eleven, among others. This year's numerous sport-utility crossovers include the Citroen C-Crosser, the Peugeot 4007, the Seat Altea FreeTrack and the Renault Scenic

Disclaimer Privacy Policy Advertise FEATURES The 2006 Geneva International Motor Show is the 76th edition of this long-running international show. Among the usual world and European premieres

running well down the order when he ran into the back of Lotus’s Heikki Kovalainen approaching Turn 17 in a mirror image repeat of an accident between Rodolfo Gonzalez and Josef Kral in the morning’

new teams’ victory for Lotus with Timo Glock challenging him all the way for Virgin and finishing only 1.4 seconds adrift. Team mate Lucas di Grassi was a further lap down, the final finisher in 19th.

Lotus’s Heikki Kovalainen won the newbie stakes for Tony Fernandes’s team, ahead of Lucas di Grassi’s Virgin and the HRTs of Bruno Senna and Christian Klien. Jarno Trulli’s Lotus was the final

They raced past Heikki Kovalainen’s burning Lotus on the pit straight as they completed their penultimate lap, and were only two-tenths of a second apart. But, as Alonso won his fourth race of the year

Behind Button, Lotus’s Heikki Kovalainen survived a bruising race, having initially fought Glock’s speedy Virgin until Buemi tapped him into a spin. His was the first new team car home, in a valuable

2nd Runner-Up : Lotus Elise The Elise can only be described as track-ready. It comes with only the basics of interior comfort, is strictly a manual affair, features standard stiff-as-rocks suspension