Joint Lotus Development
The already developed Lotus Elise Series 1 was unable to be produced beyond the 2000 model production year due to new European crash safety regulations, and Lotus needed a development partner to meet the investment requirement.
The Lotus Elise S2/Opel Speedster design was based on the Elise chassis, modified to accept a General Motors engine in place of the Rover K-series engine used by the first Elise.
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