Lotus Elise
EstablishedRank #15S1 · 1996–2001 · 118bhp · RWD · NA · Manual
A bonded aluminium tub weighing 725kg with no servo assistance anywhere. The purest driving car of its generation.
- Est. value now
- $45,500
- CAGR 2015–2025
- +9.1%
- Recent CAGR
- +4.6%
- Units built
- 10,675
Estimated value trajectory
+$26,500 since 2015Illustrative estimates for a condition-2 example, not sale records. Confidence in this trajectory: high.
How the score is built
Motorsport history, cultural weight, end-of-era status, analogue purity
Production run and, where known, surviving population — log scale, weighted to survivors
Annualised growth over recent years — what it is doing now
Growth already achieved — weighted lowest, since it is priced in
Stage: Established
The run has already happened. Growth has slowed and the gains are in the asking price.
Long-run growth +9.1% per year against +4.6% recently — decelerating by 4.5pp. Running-cost risk is rated 5/10, deducting 4 points from the score.