First Drive: 2008 Lotus Elise Supercharged

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The Anti-Godzilla: A sportster that's everything Nissan's mighty GTR is not
By Frank Markus
This year's high-performance headlines are all about Nissan's gigantus GTR, a two-ton nuke lobbed at Newton's laws of physics. Meanwhile, way below the fold in mouse type we read that Lotus has quietly strengthened its longstanding alliance with fellow Brit, Sir Isaac, by introducing an Elise with Exige S power and 63 fewer pounds worth of "resistance to motion."