Inside there are no carpets; no air conditioning; and seats that, while leather-clad, are so thin you worry about bending them by sitting on them.
From Toyota To Honda Featured by That Racing Channel on YouTube, this Lotus Elise has seen its 1.
It offered the rare and always alluring pleasures of low-mass sports motoring along with great styling, an industrially bare interior, 0-62mph in 5.
It's not easy to say goodbye to that car.
The Elise seems to hover just above the road surface, the supple springs and expertly realised damping smothering whatever imperfections in the tarmac you might happen upon.
The party piece, though, is the steering.