Lotus Elise 1.6: The sports car has the cleanest petrol engine?

Lotus manufacturer prides itself on offering sports car has the cleanest engine in the world atmospheric. To do this, there are, as always, an ultra mild car that weighs only 876 pounds, is almost half the weight recorded by most sports cars in its class. For example, its main rival the Porsche Boxster and Cayman weigh respectively 1,335 and 1,350 pounds.

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In addition to its reduced weight, it provides a new four-cylinder engine of just 1.6 liters. It features Valvematic technology has variable valve timing and whose power is 134 hp. According to the data of the manufacturer, the new Lotus Elise 1.6 takes only 6.5 seconds to go from 0 to 100 km / h.

Economic and clean

Also according to the manufacturer's figures, this sports car discoverable announces impressive fuel consumption of 5.04 l/100 km barely or, if you prefer, 54 miles to the gallon. Its fumes of CO? limited only 149g/km according European standards.