THE HISTORY OF THE LOTUS ELISE S1 | On Board
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2024
- A detailed and up to date history of the Lotus Elise S1.
Taking you right the way from what inspired this excellent little car and the issues encountered when designing it, to it's excellent chassis and the numerous variations and special editions that were unveiled during its lifespan.
CORRECTIONS AND REVISIONS
Air bags were never added to the Elise S1 during its production run.
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Elise GT1
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Standard Elise
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This video made me buy my Elise 111R. Seriously: very very very GOD piece of work. Congratulations.
Fantastic video - very well produced, researched & interesting... even to a Lotus fan like me who's sucked-up every bit of info on S1's since 1996 :-)
Thank-you, Sean.
Thanks for this: it is so well done! At that time I was inside the Bugatti Team, Romano Artioli was My Boss an I know Miss Elisa. For me it is so pleasant to follow you in the Elise history.
Thanks, Vittorio. I'm glad you liked the video. It must have been amazing to be a part of the Bugatti Team in the 1990s, the EB110 is one of my all time favourite cars. And it must be great to know Miss Elisa too! Thanks again for watching.
Great documentary. After end of Elise's production last year. You should make an another video which includes Elise S2/S3 and Exige series. Which all deserves such a documentary either.
Very nice video, thanks a lot !!
Thanks for watching, Vincent!
this is one of the only 40+ min videos that i've watched start to finish! amazing video!
Wow. Wow, wow, wow!!!! I'm absolutely AMAZED by your job!!!! Terrific!!! Congratulations, dude!!
What a wonderful video. Having just bought an S1 Elise this is without doubt the single most impressive video I have found on the car to date. Many thanks for all your efforts in creating this.
Thank-you Richard for you kind words. I'm really glad you enjoyed the video, and congratulations on buying such an excellent car. No doubt you'll have a fantastic time with it.
What do you think of it?
Cool design info and lovely 'animation'. More pls. :)
I love the Lotus Elise design. I am glad they chose this design.
In a time when any ol' car video with awful production values can gather massive audience, props to you for taking the time and care to prepare such presentation. It looks like a massive effort both when it comes to research and editing. Also extremely enjoyable. You sir have my adoration, subscribed.
Super, very enjoyable viewing. Thanks for this unique and engaging production!
those guys did a hell of a job :)
Nice one, enjoyed that.
Thanks, Mark!
Excellent vid and a nice testimony to this amazing little car. 15 years on and I still love mine 😉
Thank-you, I'm really happy you enjoyed the video.
Extraordinary.
Excellent video. Deserves more views
Extremely well done video 👍
brilliant video so well put together and full of information !
Great video!!
This is absolutely amazing; as someone who worked for a Lotus dealer when I was "the boy" Literally nothing touches this amazing, brilliant car - love it to bits 🥲
I've had my standard S1 Elise up to 135 indicated on a quiet M40... I needed earplugs though! Great video.
Crikey thats a huge pace, that must have taken some bravery to do! Thanks for watching, Sheldon.
@@AveragetoPoor Yeah I was crapping myself haha
Great video, thanks for posting 👍
Excellent video. Congratulations !
Yeah, wow. Amazing work, Graham. Even after ten years of S1 ownership, I learned something new from watching this video :)
Are you called Brave Dave as a result of owning an S1 for ten years?
For those of us contemplating ownership, how would you characterise your period of ownership?
@@lawrieflowers8314 Haha yep I think anyone who owns a Lotus is brave :) I've been meaning to do a 10-year ownership experience overview video... but in a nutshell, absolutely wonderful. It's been an inexpensive venture, and having the car double in value certainly helps! I've learned a lot, have met some fantastic people, and most of all have had the privilege to put smiles on people's faces! Unfortunately the next chapter will be rebuilding the top half of the engine due to recently breaking some valves... :( It happened after the ten year mark tho lol
sick bro ! nice work.
Great great video. Really helpful.
Brilliant video! Thank you very much. A great collection of information and certainly all correct and well investigated. Of course airbags were introduced. In 2005 or 6 though ;-) and of course on the Tesla and the Opel Speedster right from the start of their production. Anyway: Brilliant job. Thanks again!
Thank-you, I'm really glad you enjoyed the video.
Good stuff man!
Fantastic. Thank you very much.
Great video 👍👍👍 only the bit about airbags was off but really a great job
Thank-you, I'm really glad you liked it, and thanks for letting me know about the airbags. For some reason I had it stuck in my head that they were added really late into production. I'm going to make a note in the video's description to amend it.
Nice video! I learned a lot as I am a pretty new Elise S1 owner :)
Thanks, Bennie. And congratulations on owning such an awesome car!
What an amazing video. Thank you. I’m looking to learn more about the Elise S1 type 49. As far as I can tell it used MMC brakes and the 118 bhp non Vtec K.
Love this video. keep up the good work man. Btw can you make a video for other lotus models? evora, esprit and exige
Excellent video. An Elise S1 is a car I regret not buying. I was amazed by it at a motorshow when it was released. A couple of years later I put a deposit down and my name on the list. But when it came time to agree my exact spec I was, amazingly, offered the limited edition 50th anniversary model instead. Foolishly I withdrew as I needed a larger car by then. I regret it to this day and am hoping to correct it tbis year by buying an S1 or S2 as a weeken toy.
I even visited Hethel where I saw the 340R prototype being shown off in their reception.
Great
You need more subscribers
The the S2 is is one of the best looking cars, even now.
Great video!
I’m really curious about the S2 and how the partnership with Toyota was forged. Will there be a similar video for the S2?
I see S1 111 selling now for close to original price. Buy one now from someone like me that’s had the car a long time and all bugs will have been fixed and many parts upgraded and replaced.
Nice video. Informative and entertaining. What car are you doing next ? Exige S1 I hope ?
Thank-you, I'll be doing a few other cars from other manufacturers first, however I certainly will be returning to Lotus in the hopefully not so distant future, and the Exige S1 will definitely be on the agenda when I do.
It will be 25 years old in 2021 and therefore LEGAL TO IMPORT INTO THE USA and I will track one down. Loved this car since 1999 when I drove it in Gran Turismo 2. Hope it's not too expensive...If it's over $15-20k USD then I'll just get a '97 SW20 MR2 GT-S.
The Hard Top That no one bought. My dad had the hard top with an official lotus hard top case it went in to protect it
Good one. Any chance you could send me the illustration you use in the last frames? That’s nice.
Wasn't the Vauxhall VX200/Opel Speedster based on the S1 too?
I like these much more than donut medias up to speed
26:47
A reason for the Porsche's low value is, that a lot of people don't like the "fried egg"-headlights.
Elise GT1 was in Need For Speed 2
Honda s2000 does weigh a bit more than the k series 1.8 but it is double the power so its power to weight ratio shits on the 1.8 k series.
Also Lotus tried to get Honda engines in the elise but the cost was too high for them.
18:20 I'm on about the engines.
I wouldnt mind a honda elise, but the standard k series is much lighter and more usable. 190hp isn't hard to get out of them either. Suits the car very well.
You need to do some research on the mg F... You posted a picture of an mg TF and you picked the 0-60 time of the slowest model an mg F with a vvc 145ps engine will do it in under 7 seconds a trophy in even less as it's 160 and better tyres suspension etc
Aerodynamics of a brick????
Hes right lol
1 word.... boring
Great video!