I love a good oddball car like a Lotus Elite, but there’s a problem with getting into strange old cars. It’s the same thing that happens to people who buy odd dog breeds like Whippets or Pugs — they start well intentioned with a single dog, but after a few months you end up owning […]
There are pluses and minuses to buying a car that cannot be rolled out into the street for a photo. On the plus side, you know it has been tucked away, off the road, likely spared damage from sun and weather. On the minus side, well, it currently does not run. That brings us neatly […]
Lotus combined door-wedge styling and hatchback versatility around classic Lotus bones to create the 1974-1982 Elite. Unlike a Europa (or Esprit), the Elite was quite usable (it had a rear seat and was sized for humans instead of Hobbits), and the glass-reinforced fiberglass body was way ahead of the Europa’s. But typical for a Lotus, […]