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http://www.detnews.com/2004/au...8.htm Nice looking car. Looks like a blast to drive, but this kind of bothers me:Quote, originally posted by Article »The lightweight Elise weighs under 2,000 pounds and is outfitted with a 1.8-liter dual-overhead cam I-4 engine made by Toyota Motor Co.p. that makes 190 horsepower at 7,800 rpm and 138 pounds-feet of torque at 6,800 rpm. It is mated to a six-speed manual transmission. Sounds like the engine from a Vibe GT/Matrix XRS, just tweaked a bit. I could be wrong though

You are correct my friend. Now lets find out how they got the extra ponies out of the motor to benefit the GT owners among us.

A semi-educated guess would be improved intake & exhaust.

I thought I read some where that they retuned the 2ZZ so that lift occurs more smoothly and also it kicks in earlier and has a higher redline for some new car. I forgot which car it was for, possibly the new Elise. Sure is a nice car!

Yeah, it is a nice looking car. Not sure I'd pay $40k for it though.

Quote, originally posted by MJN2 »A semi-educated guess would be improved intake & exhaust. This sound good... May be a different ECU config as well

From what I hear it is an extreme adrenaline rush to drive it. I think it weighs the same as a geo metro. With that power to weight ratio it would have to be fun. Just imagine if a Gt Vibe weighed almost 1000lbs. less.

0-to-60 in 4.9 seconds with a top speed of 150 miles per hour, and it only weighs 1975lbs.Sounds like fun to me

Very true. But how many young, inexperienced drivers can afford a $40k car?

$40K is cheap for a luxury sports car like that. If I didn't just buy the Vibe, I'd consider it. The only problem is you wouldn't want to drive that during a Wisconsin winter so I'd have to get a winter beater. I wonder what insurance goes for on that car?

Elise's have always been blasts to drive...put some stickys and bring them to a track and it's even better(i've never driven one on track) but I have driven it other places.they're fun...

They got the extra power from their own ecu programming.

Quote, originally posted by Salsa! »daddy's boy...You could be amazed at the number of young kids that have cars you wonder how they could afford....You've a point there. One high school I went to (attended 3 total..blah. life of a military brat), was in an upper-middle class area, and a lot of kids drove 'Stang GTs, Z28's, and Corvettes to school. I remember one girl I had a couple of classes with getting dropped off by her dad every morning in a brand new Rolls Royce.

What young driver can afford it? A student at UB just bought a brand new BMW 6 series, which is a $70K dollar car. His parents must have deep pockets!As for the Elise, it is a sweet car but does seem a tad expensive. There is no questioning its performance, but $40K will buy an awful lot of performance in a number of competitors cars. For that kind of money, I would hope for an engine that is a little more exotic than one from a $20-$25k Toyota, even if power levels were about the same.

Quote, originally posted by Fformula88 »but $40K will buy an awful lot of performance in a number of competitors cars. For that kind of money, I would hope for an engine that is a little more exotic than one from a $20-$25k Toyota, even if power levels were about the same. No kidding. Could pick up a brand new 'Stang Cobra Coupe for about $5k less and a convertible for about $2-3k less, as an example, and it's 0-60 time is the same. Plus, you get that wonderful V-8+supercharger sound coming from it

I had the option to take one of these to the track along with my car for the weekend. Not a drag strip i'm talking a course.. but i had no warning of going so i had to work.. This was last july or august..