NY Times: Future classic

[dpeilow]

Writers Pick Heirs to Today's Classic Collector Cars - NYTimes.com

 

[Grendal]

The picture they posted shows a Lotus Elise, not a Roadster.

 

[palmer_md]

The picture they posted shows a Lotus Elise, not a Roadster.

And the article clearly states that the Lotus Platform is the one they are praising, and it includes the elise and the roadster

...Fifty years from now, the Lotus Elise and its electric variant, the Tesla Roadster, will offer the same qualities to collectors. The Lotus Elise, built for the North American market from 2004 through August of this year, has a 4-cylinder, 198-horsepower Toyota engine with a state-of-the-art midengine configuration. The Tesla is built on the Elise platform, but replaces the gasoline drivetrain with 6,831 lithium-ion cells. It offers breathtaking performance and represents the next era of high-performance cars. The Elise and the Roadster have instantly recognizable profiles, like the 911. They will be looked upon as the high point of simple, no-frills compact gasoline-engine sports cars, and the beginning of high-performance alternative-energy vehicles.

 

[FalconNinetyD]

They talk about the Elise being a future classic as well, so I don't think it was an error...

 

[Grendal]

Maybe. But as far as I am concerned they got it wrong. The Roadster is a much more important future classic over the Elise. :tongue:

 

[Robert.Boston]

A matched set (Elise+Roadster) would be a nice collectible.