Finding a truly pure sports car in today’s market is harder than ever. Manufacturers keep adding weight, technology, and driver aids until the raw, analog experience that made these machines special in the first place is all but gone. That makes the used market increasingly compelling — and one car in particular stands out as a genuine time capsule of what a sports car should feel like: the Lotus Elise S2. Light, focused, and built around a bulletproof Toyota engine, it remains one of the most rewarding driver’s cars money can buy, new or used.
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