Lotus last week built its last Elise, some 26 years after the spritely roadster first entered production. The Elise had been pivotal in keeping Lotus alive during decades of financial hardship, and ...
The Toyota Celica GT-S uses the 2ZZ-GE engine shared with the Lotus Elise and Exige, offering 180 hp and a 7,800 rpm redline ...
The Elise Cup 260 is based on the company's race car-derived Elise and features a host of those race-bred parts that, according to the company, make it the ultimate Elise. Produced to celebrate the ...
When they were milking the hell out of the Elan and Esprit, the peeps at Lotus returned to the British automaker’s roots with the Elise. Launched to much critical acclaim in 1995 and named after the ...
Experience a first-person drive in the ultra-rare 1997 Lotus Elise GT1 at Spa-Francorchamps, as the POV camera captures the ...
Lotus stopped making the Elise after 25 years, which is sad if you think about it, but this moment was inevitable. The British marque has pledged to stop making gasoline-engined cars, and all its ...
When Lotus introduced the Elise mid-engined sports car in 1996, the model embodied the company’s ethos of “adding lightness” like almost no other Lotus before it and weighed under 1,600 pounds. The ...
Lotus in January confirmed the Elise, Exige and Evora sports cars would all be phased out in 2021, to be replaced by a new series of sports cars starting with the Type 131 (code name) arriving in 2022 ...
In this era of cars only getting heavier, the Lotus Elise and its hardtop Exige variant may just be more relevant than ever. However, with sales figures hardly confirming this view, Lotus is now ready ...
Some 21 years ago, the first-generation Lotus Elise weighed 1521 lbs. without its fluids. Of course it also had to make due with just 118 horsepower on tap. Today, Lotus says the next-generation, ...
The challenge of ‘plugging the gap’ has now been spectacularly addressed with the launch of the new Lotus Elise S – a sub 6 second 0 - 60mph sportscar, available at a stunning sub £24K ‘on the road’ ...
Sports cars aren’t usually a great choice for a weekend on the trails, but this modified Lotus Elise is ready to leave pavement in the rearview. Lotus is known for its agile sports cars with nimble ...