Description
Hello,
The Automobile Nantaise, specialist in sporty, youngtimer and premium cars, offers for sale this magnificent LOTUS ELISE S1 MMC 1. 8 sport kit around 135 hp from 1997 with only 59, 000 km!!!
All the English know‑how packed into an ultra‑light car dedicated to performance and driving pleasure, whether on open roads or on track!
----- OUR MODEL -----
- LOTUS ELISE S1 MMC 1. 8, equivalent to a sport kit around 135 hp
- Registered on 01/ 08/ 1997
- Totals 36, 500 miles, the equivalent of 58, 728 km (very little wear)
- Originally registered in the UK, it arrived in France in 2008
- 2 English owners
- 4 French private owners
- Rover 4‑cylinder 1. 8 engine, base 118 hp boosted to around 135 hp with the sport kit
- 5‑speed manual gearbox
- Fiscal horsepower 8 CV
- Normal registration document
----- EQUIPMENT AND OPTIONS -----
- Sport kit around 135 hp
- Aluminium radiator
- 52 mm throttle butterfly
- Carbon air box
- Janspeed supersport exhaust
- Sport catalytic converter
- Bilstein dampers
- Reinforced toe links
- Alarm bypass / immobiliser
- Headlight covers
- Kill switch
- Right‑hand drive to left‑hand drive conversion documented on invoice
- Lotus Elise S2 bucket seats
- MMC brakes: theoretically, if well maintained, inexhaustible! the discs never wear, only the pads; these are adhesion discs, not friction discs
----- MAINTENANCE AND HISTORY -----
Impeccable service book and traceability: we have invoices from 1998 to 2023.
For the sale:
- Timing belt and servicing at our Lotus/ English car specialist in the Nantes region
- Technical inspection for sale
Possibility of a 12‑month warranty covering gearbox / engine / driveshaft; maximum cap €2, 500, possibility to increase the cap – purchaser to bear cost – terms to be discussed in the workshop
Price: €29, 990 including tax
Registration document 8 CV: around €250.
Administrative fees and vehicle preparation package: €400 (minimum €70 for SIV procedures)
S. A. R. L L'Automobile Nantaise
85 Rue Ampère
44 430 Le Loroux-Bottereau
Contact: Anthony - VIEWING STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT -
