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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...