[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #865 Lotus Elise

["George Schweikle" <schweikg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Digesti,

It's a quiet evening after an autocross, and I can't resist this response:

I acknowledge the mechanical excellence of the Elise, and others of this
ilk, but, am I the only one that is repulsed by the wretched Saturday
morning cartoon styling of these things?.

Additional memorable comments: as Bob Lutz was quoted before he defected to
GM: "the styling of some new cars appear to have been scared by angry
kitchen appliances". Road & Track's response a few years ago to a new
Pontiac: "would a mature person ever drive one of these cars".

Some new cars appear to be styled to look like a combination of Saturday
morning cartoon, Angry kitchen appliance, and early 1940's Diesel railroad
locomotive.

Alfa content: the 1960's GTA looked like a real car.

Flame away....

George Schweikle

> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:58:08 -0400
> From: Andy Kress <aokress@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Re: awsome Lotus elise
>
> >So Road and Track calls the new Lotis Elise US version. Now the spec
sheet
> >says she's got a 1796 cc heart pumping out 190 bhp @ 7800 rpm and 133
lb-ft
> >@ 6800 rpm in a 1975 lb. car. So how far off from that are mid 60's GTA
> >numbers in a 1.6L?
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