Bullseye...Look through my posts...you'd be hard pressed to find where I said the Lotus is THE best. It's a very good car, does what it's designed to do very well, but the BEST? No. The US Version has, at least thus far, virtually NONE of the problems cited by Cindy2...I think he may have stumbled onto some old threads talking about the early European Elise's, which used the Rover K engine, not the current Toyota.

The current car is even cosmetically very different than the early Elise's, and has significant differences from the current euro car.

No, I can list many little gremlins the car has, just like any other. And I can also list the compromises folks must decide for themselves they're willing to make to own this kind of car.