Lotus Elan

LOTUS ELAN M100
So competent it's almost boring!? Ten years on the Elan M100 might force you to question what you want from a sportscar.
3855 Series I Elans were built with all but 180 being SEs (turbocharged).

Lotus Elan S4
If ever a car was worthy of an admiring glance, it's the timeless Lotus Elan.

Lotus Elan
Lotus used to be a company that made cars. Now it's a car company. Revealing five new vehicles at the 2010 Paris auto show is an unprecedented feat for the people from Norwich.

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p=191861 The 1960s was the golden age for convertibles: Lotus Elans, MG Midgets, Austin Healey Sprites, Triumph TR6s, Chevy Corvettes and others.

The car's looks were heavily inspired by the Lotus Elan and it was powered by the Ford Kent based Vegantune VTA 1.6 and later 1.7 litre twin overhead cam engine driving the rear wheels through a gearbox originally from a Ford Sierra.

All in all (and I know I drive a bit of a barge at the moment), I had more fun driving the Aygo than I've had for a long time - the far-off years when I had an original Lotus Elan SE.

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The first Miata prototype was built in California, USA and Worthing, England. Many key stylistic cues were clearly inspired by (some say copied from) the Lotus Elan, ...

The basic design formula for the MX-5 was to build a straightforward, front engine/rear wheel drive sports car with all the appeal of a classic like the Lotus Elan (on which it's unashamedly based), ...

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