Highlights
- Virtually ‘as new’ last version of the original Elise
- Just 615 miles from new
- One registered keeper from new
- Stored in a warm garage and never exposed to rain or weather
- Comprehensive Lotus main dealer annual servicing
- Last serviced March 2025 Rybrook Lotus
- One of the last 2020 production run Elise models
- MOT to March 2026 with no advisories
The Appeal
We admire the restraint of this Elise Sport 220’s single keeper. Despite owning one of the greatest drivers’ cars of the last 20 years, he has carefully kept it in ‘as new’ condition and limited the total mileage to a mere 615 miles.
The result is a quite remarkable find for enthusiasts. It is one of the last of the original Elise cars built, a Series 3 model in Azure Blue with the Sport 220 version of the revered Toyota engine. It features factory options including air conditioning, floor mats and enhanced seats with blue stitching and silver contrast highlights. The sparing use means that it presents much as it did the day it left the showroom.
Often with little-used cars the servicing and maintenance has been ignored. Not here. The car has returned annually to Rybrook Lotus, at the same time each year, for a health check and service. The most recent visit was in March 2025 at 615 miles. Now shows 619 miles. In a similar vein, the MOT runs to March 2026 with no advisories.
The vendor says:
“The Elise is a successful street-legal racing car and drives like one. Most enthusiasts love this, and I'm sure that any buyer will feel the same . This is an opportunity to buy a virtually new and desirable famous sports car as it left the factory about 6 years ago with only delivery mileage.”
History and Paperwork
- First registered 12th March 2021
- Single registered keeper from new
- Five annual services by Rybrook Lotus of Hockley Heath, Birmingham
- Major service completed on 11th March 2025 at a cost of £935
- Current MOT valid until 13th March 2026 with no advisories
- Complete with all service invoices and documentation
- Believed to have been manufactured in late 2020 as part of the last production run
- V5C in current keeper’s name
- Original bill of sale as shown
- Handbook for Sony stereo
- Factory extras include mats, a/c, Sony Bluetooth stereo
- Dry stored in warm garage when not in use with car cover
Service history by Rybrook Lotus:
- 11/03/22: 368 miles
- 12/03/23: 576 miles
- 15/03/24: 610 miles
- 11/03/25: 615 miles
The Condition
- Azure Blue metallic paintwork appears in very good order and close to ‘as new’
- Bodywork is equally well kept as shown in photos
- Factory standard car including multispoke alloys with the front being 16in and the rears 17in
- Underside is reported to be in nearly-new condition
- Vendor states that car has never been exposed to rain or adverse weather
- Alloy wheels in very good order and fitted with matching Yokohama tyres
- Lotus cloth seats and door cards appear in smart condition
- Interior trimmed in charcoal with suede fittings and blue stitching with silver highlights
- Factory-fitted extras include floor mats, air conditioning, and Sony Bluetooth CD player/radio
- The vendor states that all instruments and switchgear are in perfect working order
- Black fabric roof in good condition as shown
- Final Elise was not factory fitted with engine covers, as here
The Mechanics
- 1,798cc Toyota 4cyl 217bhp engine
- 6spd manual transmission
- Sport 220 specification car
- Non power steering
- Starts and runs correctly we are told
- Serviced regardless of minimal use, with all manufacturer-recommended maintenance carried out by the main dealer
- Annual service records shown in photos and summarised above
- All servicing work by Lotus main dealers
- No advisories on current MOT
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