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 ...
Lotus has developed excellent and unusual cars in equal measure. The Lotus Eclat and Excel top the list of obscure releases. The Eclan, while brilliant, gets its fair share of downvotes – it’s not 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
It's no secret that the creator of the McLaren F1, Gordon Murray is a huge fan or Lotus Elans, as well as Colin Chapman's work in general. In fact, the F1 was supposed to steer roughly like Lotus' ...
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