John Miles, ex-Formula One racer, engineer and once Autocar road tester, led the development to produce a chassis of extraordinary capabilities. The Elan’s absorbency and resistance to being knocked ...

Introduced in 1962 as a replacement for the Elite, the Elan was the first Lotus road car to use a steel backbone chassis with a fiberglass body. Yet another embodiment of Colin Chapman's lightweight ...

It makes little sense to discuss the legacy of the Lotus Elan, but given this wasn’t necessarily the most popular car in the United States, few people actually know that a +2 model was also released.

View post: Buick Grand National GNX Revival: Could This Be the Camaro’s Replacement? In any case, the Elan is powered by a 450-horsepower supercharged 4.0-liter V6 engine with a seven-speed ...