Vehicle Type: | 2-door convertible, production car |
Price: | $---,--- |
Miles Per Gallon: | --/-- mpg |
Drivetrain | |
Configuration | Mid Engine/RWD |
Engine: | Inline-4 |
Displacement: | 1600 cc |
Horsepower: | 134 bhp @ 6800 rpm |
Torque: | 118 lb-ft @ 4400 rpm |
Max RPM: | 7000 rpm |
Transmission: | 6-Speed Manual |
The new 2011 archetypal year Elise has a cardinal of added changes and improvements, with the accession of a new avant-garde 1.6 litre Valvematic agent affair EURO 5 regulations. This new agent is 200cc abate than the approachable Elise S archetypal and produces agnate ability (136 PS, 100 kW, 134 hp at 6800 rpm) with best torque of 160 Nm, 118 lbft at 4400 rpm, but offers a cogent advance to ammunition abridgement of over 23%, to 6.14 litres / 100km (46 mpg)* and a abridgement in CO2 discharge by added than 13%*. This provides the new Lotus Elise with the everyman CO2 per achievement for any gasoline aerial achievement sportscar in the world. This aerial technology agent is akin to a new 6-speed chiral gearbox, accouterment afterpiece and added achievement orientated ratios than the approachable 5 acceleration box.
The 1.6 litre agent is controlled via the bespoke Lotus T6 agent administration system. Cruise ascendancy is accessible on the Elise for the aboriginal time with the controls present on a axis amid to the larboard of the council column.