Lotus Engineering Ltd. was founded in North London by Colin Chapman in 1952, four years after the engineer built his first trials car in his garage, a not unheard-of story about small British car and ...

Back in the 1960s, there was a tendency for manufacturers to build sports cars that were on the larger and heavier side. However, Lotus didn’t subscribe to this approach and decided to build a compact ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ignoring the front-wheel-drive M100 series that launched in 1989 when Mazda produced a better sports car than Lotus in the form of the rear-drive Miata, the original Elan is often mentioned in the ...

This video explores what makes the Lotus Elan Sprint such a special sports car to drive. With its ultra-light body, compact ...

Lotus and its founder Colin Chapman had developed quite a reputation for building potent, lightweight sports and racing cars by the early 1960s. A force to be reckoned with in both sports car racing ...

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 ...

The Lotus Elan, one of the automaker's most iconic nameplates, turns 50 this year. Lotus will be in attendance at this weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed to celebrate the Elan's birthday. Launched ...

Under the category of "extremely unlikely to pass off a car to Kia," Lotus might top the list. Any sports car manufacturer, really. But this was a real thing that happened. And it resulted in the ...

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 1971 Lotus Elan S4 sold online through Bonhams for £31,707 (approximately $42,000) in February. Bonhams Apart from being functional art, what makes the Elan interesting is its novel construction, ...