ELISE S HERITAGE LIMITED EDITION in IMPERIAL GREEN (2009)
11,900 miles �21,995
Presented in outstanding condition, this particular Elise S forms part of the Heritage Collection, recalling the long and illustrious past of Lotus Cars. In this particular case, remembering the iconic Lotus Carlton by sporting it’s famous metallic Imperial Green paintwork, specially commissioned by Stratton Motor Company and available on just a handful of cars.
Further specification includes…
Touring Pack with black leather
Air Conditioning
Embroidered “Heritage” head restraints
Upgraded Alpine radio/MP3 player and speakers
This 2009 model year example includes a more comprehensive LED instrument display and lower emissions of just 179 g/km.
Supplied by Stratton Motor Company to it’s one and only owner and serviced solely by us, as follows…
July 2009 1011 miles
July 2010 5171 miles
July 2011 10219 miles
A great opportunity to buy a nearly unique car, enthusiast owned, and superbly well cared for. For detailed information relating to this vehicle, please contact Guy Munday, Lotus Sales Manager. Please call 07983 716487 outside usual office hours.
Depends on what you’re looking for. They are hardly aimed at the same market point.
Personally found the Carlton pretty good on the handling side for a 4 door uber saloon. They did weigh quite a bit, but was blessed with a looooong wheelbase so were pretty drift tastic if you felt the need. Only downside with that were the price of the rear tyres!!
[quote=JDS]Depends on what you’re looking for. They are hardly aimed at the same market point.
Personally found the Carlton pretty good on the handling side for a 4 door uber saloon. They did weigh quite a bit, but was blessed with a looooong wheelbase so were pretty drift tastic if you felt the need. Only downside with that were the price of the rear tyres!! [/quote]
You are ill advised drifting a Carlton on the public highway , methinks!
Never said it was the public highway. And never said what speed it was at, you can get them a long way around, even in first gear, and totally recovereable
No more ill advised than numerous other front engine/rear wheel drive cars. And I’m pretty sure that most have done it, either intentionally or not!!
You would have turned to the dark side though, cos there no way you would have said NA rocks anymore
Remember reading a magazine feature on the new V10 M5, some sort of Merc AMG thing and A N Other uber saloon, and they managed to persude the heritage centre at Luton to lend them thier LC for a long weekend. Long story short, but the Carlton kicked them all the way back to Germany.
Never mind initial post …
I’m with John , long wheel base Vauxhalls were the perfect trainer vehicles to Elise/exige …
Fact is … In the middle of a wet night in the black country you could drift them continuously for several laps of any roundabout…
And at a safe 15/20 mph speed too …
Mock if you wish ,but muscle motor memory is built on practice…
If you think that the standard car was drifty, you should have tried the couple of limos that were floating around, but didn’t get produced officially!!!
