"Why I bought a Lotus Elise S1" | The best driver's car EVER?

Nice enthusiastic review and totally accurate.
I bought my 1999 111S in 2007 after a French Historic race driver took me round Pau-Arnos in his S1 JPS 111S, which convinced me of the car's character.

Mine is Azure Blue, and has been tuned by Dave Andrews to 2004bhp.
It currently has the ceramic discs, and Nitron race suspension, which I think I'll change as it's uncomfortably stiff. I'll go for the S2 Bilsteins as in this review.

Lovely cars....I doubt I'll ever sell mine.

I like this kid. Probably the best Elise video I've seen. Bit of BBC announcer at first, but he got over it. Worst thing about British videos is 90% of them saying every sentence the same weird way. Keeping being real, kid.

Because of Need for speed Underground. Thats my favorite car ever

My favorite sports car . . . but that bonded aluminum frame can't age well. Aluminum unlike steel fatigues over time, plus this car was basically glued together

A great review however a couple of other negative points the seats do not offer much support and are positively uncomfortable when doing lots of miles, the roof takes an age to put back on in the series 1 and the luggage space is minimal. Getting in and out with the roof on is difficult.. My first series 1 had a removable steering wheel which made entry and exit much easier. I traded up to a series 2 however I did not like it as much as the 1 and then bought a Porsche Boxster S which was sublime.

Nice Review! I do not understand however why this scary myth of the head gasket failure is brought up over and over again: Since latest the year 2005-something all proper maintained Elise S1 have had their head gasket upgraded. Since upgrade no problem at all!

I'd been thinking about buying an Elise for ages, and then in January 2022 I saw this video. Now I'm the proud owner of a 2005 Elise S2 111s. It's amazing, love at first drive! So thank you Yousuf, this was the nudge I needed to finally join the ranks of the Lotus owners 👍

Mine is the same colour, except S2. and yeah, I love mine as well. Carbon fibre interior, Quantum one Coilovers, Rear toe link kit, Oz racing wheels, Racetech quick release steering wheel. 72 degree cams and Kent sprockets, the list goes on.

Very similar to my car, S1 111S with Bilsteins. Can't argue with anything you said. Fantastic cars, can't see me parting with it.

After 93k miles and multiple track days mine is still going well

Why all British auto journalists speaks exactly the same to each other?

My ex’s name is Elise, so my girlfriend won’t let me buy one, so I have to go with an exige, which is hardly a problem.

Clever quick shifts in that intro but remember to put the e-brake down next time lol

Nice job Yousuf! Great review as always! I've still never driven one and now I know not to until I'm ready to buy another car. Seems like, once driven - you've got to have one.

Awesome. Loved watching this.

Way pay 20k when you can get MR2 for half the price ? And get beter relaybilty.

Love it.. Unfortunately I don't have 15/ 20 k to spend on a weekend car.
.. So I bought... (and don't laugh) a smart roadster..

Wonderful video!

Make sure you budget for old suspension etc etc

The most talked thing about like cars is having good power with not massively strong engine but the real point is having great WEIGHT/TRACK WIDTH ratio. Sure nowadays you can add like infinite tires, brakes and power (expensive) to balance things out but you can only make a road car so wide.