Lotus Elise. Because you don’t even have to drive like a hooligan to ruin it. Pulling on the A-pillar while climbing over the tall side sills to get in or out risks cracking the windshield. The car body is essentially made from two large clamshells that together cost almost the current market value of the car to…

Leave it to VW to come up with automatic *post*-collision braking.

Dodge Caravan. It was a VAN built on a CAR platform to be more car-like than a regular van was, and it could carry a group of people in a caravan. It's a Car. It's a Van. It's a Caravan.

Lotus Elise Series 2

Can't say that I really understand the hate for Lotus on this site. Nobody actually bought any of the lightweight cars. They've been selling around ~200 cars a year or so in the US for the last several years. It's hard to sustain a car company and dealer network on ~200 cars a year, when you aren't selling $400,000…