# Lotus 2-Eleven **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486 **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive **Created:** [October 15, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486 "2008-10-15T09:30:44Z") **Posts on this page:** 12 **Page:** 2
### Author: ![Sansone](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sansone/32/4970_2.png) [@Sansone](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sansone) #### Post date: [October 15, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/21 "2008-10-15T23:25:03Z")
so its kind of like an atom with a shell? ---
### Author: ![91MR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91mr2/32/7217_2.png) [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/22 "2008-10-16T00:02:00Z")
No, it’s like an Elise on a diet. A big diet, balls out susp./brakes, and a SC. ---
### Author: ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/23 "2008-10-16T00:23:21Z")
am I the only one that thinks it looks just like an s2000? And i don’t understand for one second how an atom can meet safety regulations and be street legal but this can’t. ---
### Author: ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 6:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/24 "2008-10-16T06:28:26Z")
> [@http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=121743#11](#): > > And it’s also street-legal and coming to the U.S. says it in last sentence of the third paragraph. ---
### Author: ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/25 "2008-10-16T06:35:38Z")
it is street legal in great britain. it is already here, and not street legal. ---
### Author: ![Tevenor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@Tevenor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tevenor) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/26 "2008-10-16T11:29:36Z")
![http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k467/tevenor_photos/Watkins%20Glen%20-%20PCA/lotus_back.jpg](http://i327.photobucket.com/albums/k467/tevenor_photos/Watkins%20Glen%20-%20PCA/lotus_back.jpg) This is the one from the Glen on Monday and Tuesday. ---
### Author: ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 11:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/27 "2008-10-16T11:49:27Z")
> [@90NA300ZX](#): > > am I the only one that thinks it looks just like an s2000? And i don’t understand for one second how an atom can meet safety regulations and be street legal but this can’t. the atom doesn’t… you can only buy them as a kit car. ---
### Author: ![9ONA3OOZX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/9ona3oozx/32/7242_2.png) [@9ONA3OOZX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/9ONA3OOZX) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/28 "2008-10-16T11:54:00Z")
> [@theblue](#): > > the atom doesn’t… you can only buy them as a kit car. ? i thought they could be registered…even if as a kit car, doesn’t that make it a street going car? i remember once just playing around on ariel’s site and seeing options for lights/directionals and such, in order to make it street legal. ---
### Author: ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/29 "2008-10-16T12:07:14Z")
people get around the safety stuff by getting the car without the motor and adding it later in some states. I’m not aware of anybody pulling this off in NY. The lotus will probably be similar. ---
### Author: ![b18civic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/b18civic/32/5284_2.png) [@b18civic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/b18civic) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/30 "2008-10-16T12:13:23Z")
> [@90NA300ZX](#): > > am I the only one that thinks it looks just like an s2000? And i don’t understand for one second how an atom can meet safety regulations and be street legal but this can’t. i thought so also its a sick car though it is like a mix of a s2k and a solstice ---
### Author: ![Silver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/silver/32/4953_2.png) [@Silver](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Silver) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/31 "2008-10-16T12:40:15Z")
> [@Tevenor](#): > > This is the one from the Glen on Monday and Tuesday. Aha! There it is… was kind of pissed I didn’t get around to taking pictures. ---
### Author: ![91MR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91mr2/32/7217_2.png) [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2) #### Post date: [October 16, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486/32 "2008-10-16T12:50:02Z")
They’re def. really cool in the flesh, very raw. [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lotus-2-eleven/56486.md?page=1)