Traditional Lotus cars are often controversial, and the Elan M100 is considered by many not to be a real Lotus. This model is ...

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 ...

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 ...

A front-wheel drive Lotus? Sacrilege! Whatever next; a diesel engine? That was the verdict of many Lotus traditionalists when the covers were pulled off an all-new Elan in 1989 – one propelled by a ...

Justin Cupler has been a member of the TopSpeed team since 2012. Justin's love for cars started back when he was just five years old, helping his dad work on his 1957 Chevy Bell Air and then his 1966 ...

Lotus Cars, the British manufacturer that won seven constructors’ championships in Formula 1, is the stuff automotive legends are made of. The artisan of the Hethel-based automaker is Colin Chapman, ...

The reaction of the Caterham driver said it all, really. There we both were, travelling in opposite directions in our spritely British sports cars, making the most of a clear (if chilly) day to enjoy ...

In so many ways the 1989 Elan was Lotus’s first grown-up car. It was properly funded, properly engineered and properly developed – these cars are reliable even now. That it launched into a recession ...

A front-wheel drive Lotus? Sacrilege! Whatever next; a diesel engine? That was the verdict of many Lotus traditionalists when the covers were pulled off an all-new Elan in 1989 – one propelled by a ...