URomano Artioli, usomashishini waseTaliyane, wayengumnini wenye yezona ndawo zithengisa kakhulu zeFerrari eItali, kodwa ekugqibeleni wayeza kuziwa, ngaphezu kwayo yonke into, ngokuthengwa kweBugatti ngo-1987, enika i-EB110 emangalisayo. Ayizukuphelela apha, ukuthenga iLotus kwaGeneral Motors ngo-1993, kwaye kwakusebudeni bobunkokeli bakhe kwiminyaka nje emithathu apho Lotus Elise.
Umdlalo weReference, osathengiswa namhlanje, uphawule ukubuya kwimvelaphi yawo yiLotus. Xa kwafika ixesha lokubhaptiza, ngokuthanda kukaRomano, wathabatha igama lomzukulwana wakhe Elisa Artioli - umzuzwana obhalwe phantsi ukuchuma, xa umfazi wayesengumntwana.
Emva kweminyaka engama-22 kwaye sele ephethe i-Lotus ezandleni zikaGeely, u-Elisa, umfazi, wabuyela kwindawo ye-brand e-Hethel, ukudibana no-Elise, imoto - njengenxalenye yemibhiyozo ye-brand ye-70th -; hayi nje ngemodeli ethiywe ngayo, kodwa kanye ngemoto efanayo emva koko yafotwa kuyo-inombolo ye-2 ye-Lotus Elise chassis.
UElisa Artioli, ngowe-1996, kunye notatomkhulu wakhe, uRomano Artioli, kunye neLotus Elise
Malunga ne "Cold Start". Ukususela ngoMvulo ukuya ngoLwesihlanu eRazão Automóvel, kukho “iSiqalo esibandayo” ngentsimbi yesi-9:00 kusasa. Ngelixa usela ikofu yakho okanye uqokelela isibindi sokuqala usuku, hlala usexesheni ngeenyani ezinomdla, iinyani zembali kunye neevidiyo ezifanelekileyo ezivela kwihlabathi leemoto. Konke kumagama angaphantsi kwama-200.