2011 Lotus Elise Most Efficient Sports Car
2011 Lotus Elise Most Efficient Sports Car, The new holy grail sought by the alchemists of the motor is to reduce the weight of the car, so we can get great performance thanks to the incorporation of small engines and low-polluting but can deliver fun, sense of power and of course, speed .
And she has performed very well understood the British house, introducing the restyled sport since the little Lotus Elise 2011 shows a curve of consumption of 5.04 liters per 100 circuit extra urban and emitting only 149 grams per kilometer Travel … We almost qualify for the Plan 2000E. With these credentials, the Lotus Elise 2011 has earned the title to be the sports car cleaner segment.
The sporty little hidden in its bowels engine four cylinder in-line 1.6-liter VVT-I that delivers only 136 hp. Figures that when tested in isolation, it seems that we are talking about a compact common, but it performed by a manufacturer like Lotus result in a departure from 0-100 in just 6.5 seconds, thanks to the total weight Lotus Elise 2011 is minimum for a car of its category, ie 876 kilos.
And this without using complicated and expensive hybrid propulsion systems, for example, consider the Toyota Prius, which goes from 0 to 100 at a time over 10 seconds and the consumption curve is 4.7 liters per 100 kilometers and its emissions are 148 grams per kilometer.
Whoever said that to go fast and have behaviors of authentic athletic needed a lot of power and consumption … or have complex hybrid systems. If times change and now we see how the V8 and other major engines die off as they did in their day dinosaurs.
