Lotus built eight examples of the Elise GT1: seven race cars and a single road car (which was not fitted with the Chevrolet engine), built in order to pass homologation requirements, so the team ...

The Lotus Elise: Everything You Need to Know About Hethel’s Lightweight Sports Car. The nimble mid-engine two-seater featured a revolutionary lightweight design that made the Miata seem like a ...

By the time the Elise made its way stateside, Lotus was already halfway through the production run of the second-generation ...

To that end the 340R touted the same stiffer springs and improved dampers out of the Elise Sport 190, the limited-run, optimized version of Lotus' bread-and-butter sports car.

The 2005 Lotus Elise is really lightweight- its 472 pounds lighter than a Miata, ... 2005 Lotus Elise - Road Test. The Most Undiluted Car Sold In America. MotorTrend Staff Writer Oct 01, 2004.

Like the famous Seven and Elan, lightweight roadsters that helped put Lotus road cars on the map, the Elise is built around the same concept of joining an exceptionally light, nimble chassis to a ...

Lotus Elise GT1. Photo: Lotus Cars. In 1997, when the BPR Global GT Series, ... Though it was a spectacular road-legal race car that fascinated many Lotus fans, ...

The race car features the same engine as the road-going Elise S, so the same unit, a supercharged 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine good for 217 horsepower and 184 pound-feet of torque, is likely ...

Get Lost, a new London-based company, has revealed what it calls "Project Safari," an off-road-ready Lotus Elise S1. This safari-style Elise restomod offers ultra-lightweight motoring and can hit ...

The Lotus Elise S Cup, a road-going variant of the Elise S Cup R completes testing. ... Designed for driving enthusiasts looking for a road car that can be taken on track days with ease, ...

The Lotus Elise S1 was named after the granddaughter of Romano Artioli, chairman of Lotus at the time. The sports car weighed in at just 1,598 lbs., making it one of the lightest vehicles on the road.

The Lotus Elise was chosen as a starting point for the project — not quite an Esprit, but still one of the best Lotus cars of all time — and the finished car still closely resembled it. An ...