Ohh yea and Im pretty sure it has the celica gts engine

 

acura? toyota? i think it'll prob come with the same rover motor its been equipped with for ages.. only that Sun motorsports does the B18C stuffs...

 

you sure? maybe the new ones are different but I am almost postive they came(may not anymore) with the honda engine(only in the states).

 

I'll check later got school tomorrow.

 

FROM CAR AND DRIVER:
We’ve heard it all before, but this time Lotus says it’s set in stone. The lovely little Elise will go on sale in America next spring as a 2005 model. The U.S. car will be powered by a version of the 1.8-liter Toyota four-banger found in the Celica GT-S. It will make 190 horsepower and come with Toyota’s six-speed manual transmission. The company expects to sell 2500 of them a year for about $40,000 through 37 dealers. It will be slightly heavier than its Euro counterpart but will still be a featherweight at about 1800 pounds. Air conditioning will be standard. The company says there are still 75 Esprit models to be built, as that model dies a slow death.

 

CHING CHING!

http://www.lotuscars.com/engine-announcement.html

 

I guess you are right they are going to use the Toyota engine.

here is a link http://www.lotuscars.com/engine-announcement.html

edit - I guess I am slow already posted

 

Yea kudos to me!!

 

i saw an elise on the way home for the bucs game last monday. it was on i4 near the lakeland area. what was weird though is that the bottom half of the car was silver and the top half was red

 

which ones came with the B18c5 motor? I know i have seen pics and shit in mags about it. I remember seeing one up agaist the new cobra SVT