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 ...

This week, the Lotus Elan turned 60 years old. There wasn't a ton of fanfare. Just a press release from Lotus, and not much else. Strange, given that the Elan is one of the greatest sports cars ever ...

The seller of today's Nice Price or No Dice Lotus says, "As I collect parts and work on this Elan, it will go up in price," but at the same time has just lowered the price by $3,500. Let's see if the ...

In the bright little lunchroom of Lotus USA's headquarters near Atlanta, R&T photographer Bill Warner and I sipped coffee, trying to condense our opinions of the U.S.-specification Elan. We had just ...