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 ...

The Lotus Elan is one of those classic race cars that rewards smart driving. Using finesse to carry as much speed through corners as possible is how it beats cars like the Shelby Cobra and Jaguar ...

My last run combined the good with the hopelessly ham-fisted. I got nowhere near the 42sec level Matty’s handicappers had now decided would be my winning time, merely matching the Lotus’s practice ...

Was it fair to pit a stock Mercury Lynx against a Chevette diesel-powered RX-7 in yesterday's Diesel Dilemma Edition Choose Your Eternity poll? Probably not, as the diesel Mazda pounded the daylights ...

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 is a 1965 Lotus Elan S2, a friendly-faced little roadster that looks like it just drove off the pages of a Richard Scarry Busytown book, pursued by Sergeant Murphy on his motorcycle. Don’t be ...