Lotus Elan (original)
 

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As light as your shoe and actually not much bigger.. you can jump in and drive it and it won't smell as bas :D sounds pretty cool to me

Subzero with Mrs Peel :mrgreen:
To be serious, i'd say cool for its chassis, its twin cam engine (very nice sound) and its styling

a better pic :arrow: http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/1...70471rr.th.jpg

Subzero. Epitome of Lotus' philisophy, much cooler than todays overweight cars...

only one lotus in my mind reaches a less then cool status, and this isn't it ;)

definately cool :-D

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COOL 8)

Naturally subzero since it has been one of the best sport cars ever made and i have always adored the Colin Chapman´s vision, concepts, ideas....and the elan is not an exception....however IMO the lotus failed a bit when they launched the front wheel drive elan a few years ago...however the corrected it launching the elise afterwords

*Goes way out on a limb by himself to guess whether this response will get him lynched*..

Uncool.. ITs just ugly.

Not an Esprit nor a Elise... sorry, have to vote for uncool just cause of the look.

Ever seen one in person?

You'd reconsider in a heartbeat.

Then again I'm olde enough to remember new Esprits.

Seeing one makes you want to jump in and take it for a spin. Cool. :)

Cool in its day as it was very unique stateside. Never really lusted after one when they were newer. Europa for some reason got my attention at the time.

Today - too many other cars I would rather have first. Actually with the rising prices of "collectible" cars a new Lotus would seem like a much better choice for someone as lazy and untalented at tinkering as me.

I couldn't decide what to vote for this car. Sure, it's light chassis, great handling and gutsy engine make one of the greatest sports cars of all time. But the styling is a bit awkward. But maybe that doesn't matter because it is indeed 60's chic.
And it's a car that I want.
And Gordon Murray likes it.
Ergo, sub zero from me!