From the September/October 2024 issue of Car and Driver. You think you remember this car. You don't. What your memory is summoning is the original '60s-era Lotus Elan that was the size of a beehive ...
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 ...
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 ...