Introduced in 1962 as a replacement for the Elite, the Elan was the first Lotus road car to use a steel backbone chassis with a fiberglass body. Yet another embodiment of Colin Chapman's lightweight ...
Designed by Colin Chapman, the Lotus Mark I from 1948 paved the way for the open-top Seven that embodies the British automaker’s philosophy. Stupidly fun in the twisties though it may be, the ...
His automotive adventure started reporting on various motorsport events as a sports writer before moving onto a full-time auto career with various sites, including This Week In Motors and ...
Alina has been enthusiastic about vehicles her entire life, and even from an early age found herself itching to get behind the wheel. Through high school and college, she could be found reading ...
IN A DISCUSSION OF PURE SPORTS cars, the Lotus Elan has to sit close to the top of anyone’s list. The Elan offers its owners the bliss of superb handling and the nightmare of so-so reliability. Reason ...
The back catalog of the automotive industry is filled with examples of cross-pollination. These products of tie-ins and collaborations between manufacturers, drivers and racing teams are sometimes ...
A modern Elan could be one of the fruits of a new modular sports car platform being developed by Lotus, Autocar reported on Monday. Citing company insiders, the British publication reported that a ...
Nigel first entered the world of automotive journalism in the mid-80s, working for what was then the “bible” of weekly automotive content - Motoring News. Those were the days of tip-tap typewriters, ...
This article originally appeared in the December 2012 issue of Road & Track. The first time I drove a Lotus Elan, everything else I'd ever driven felt like a truck. And I mean real truck, as in Army ...
No company exemplifies a philosophy of Less Is More the way Lotus does. When its tiny Elan launched in 1962, it was Jaguar E-type money, for which you got a small-displacement four-cylinder engine and ...
Lotus is thinking about bringing back the Elan in addition to other nameplates from its past, Autocar reports. The boutique British automaker is developing a new, rivet-bonded platform that will ...
It’s not unheard of for an automaker to collaborate with other manufacturers in developing technologies and platforms for shared use. In rare circumstances, some brands have even resorted to buying ...