I was about to comment that it looked like an adapted Lotus Elise... and the story mentions that it was designed by someone from Lotus, and is being built by Lotus, after they poached a bunch of engineers from Lotus. Hmmm.
The Elise also gets strangely good mileage for a sportscar (24/29 -- well, the UK version is a lot better at 34/43), and goes silly fast on a Toyota inline four.
Of course, when I was fantasizing about the Elise, I kept choking on the roughly $40k price tag, so the Tesla is also unlikely to tempt me. It's a low-production-volume handbuilt toy, not a mass-market car, so not exactly world changing.
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Date: 2006-07-20 10:17 pm (UTC)The Elise also gets strangely good mileage for a sportscar (24/29 -- well, the UK version is a lot better at 34/43), and goes silly fast on a Toyota inline four.
Of course, when I was fantasizing about the Elise, I kept choking on the roughly $40k price tag, so the Tesla is also unlikely to tempt me. It's a low-production-volume handbuilt toy, not a mass-market car, so not exactly world changing.
But I wouldn't say no to a test drive. :-)