That one looks like the Elite e2, not the actual Elite. I was not a fan of the e2 in the 8x42 format and I thought it was false advertising to call it an Elite. As I recall, it was introduced at a budget price, then when the real Elite was discontinued they jacked up the price and started leaving off mention of the e2 label.
I'm not familiar with a Bushnell Elite with rubber ridges. That sounds more like the original Legend roof.
The only Bushnell Elite (full-sized roof) models that I remember were the 10x43 (a really nice bin, but I already had as good or better from Nikon and Leica, so I wasn't tempted) with two bridges and orange accent (see photo), which was followed by the 10x42 ED with green accent and single bridge conventional design (see photo). I wasn't paying any attention to the Elite anymore by the time the latter was released for the reasons given above. I wasn't sure how it differed, other than price, from the much much cheaper Chinese ED models that were available at the time, as well as later from Bushnell (e.g. Legend M). Bushnell/B&L has been known to price models in ways entirely unrelated to manufacturing costs (e.g. B&L 8x50 Elite was a cryptic porro and probably cheap to make but priced like a premium roof), so I suspected as much in that case.
--AP