Car Guese

The road-ripping Lotus Elise is a track runner’s dream come true. To everyone else, it’s a unique — yet under-equipped — paperweight. However, those in the market for an adrenaline-pumping sports roadster will not be disappointed.Introduced to the U.S. in 2005, the Lotus Elise has built a cult following for its performance-first attitude. In fact, the Elise is so performance-oriented that its engineers have deprived it of many creature comforts found in competing sports cars simply to keep its weight down. And the payoff is great — it blasts from 0 to 60 mph in the same amount of time as much more expensive super cars and handles just as marvelously.