The Lotus Elise Is Returning to America . . . in 2020 - RoadandTrack.com (blog)
?For a brief few years, U. S. buyers lived in a golden age, able to buy Lotus's ferociously lightweight Elise sportscar brand-new and fully-assembled. First appearing on the U. S. market in 2004, the divine Elise stuck around until 2011, when Lotus had to withdraw it from our market due to non-compliant airbags. Our nation became an Elise-less America. But there's hope for the eventual end of our nightmare: Lotus CEO Jean-Marc Gales tells. That's bad news for fans of the current Elise, the Series 2 which was introduced in the U. K. in 2001 and brought stateside three years later. And while we're sad to hear that it'll be 2020 before an Elise returns to our shores—and let's face it, a lot could happen to Lotus, and the car market as a whole, in that time—a future Elise is better than no Elise at all. Source: www.roadandtrack.com
