The nimble handling Lotus Europa was certainly an automobile well ... It looks like most of the exterior parts are there, and the lightweight body panels are intact and usable.

The Lotus Europa may not be the most attractive car, but with a low kerb weight and well-sorted mid-engine chassis, it still offers the same sort of driving enjoyment one would expect from a Lotus ...

Although the Renault-powered Europa offered decent performance, Lotus had a Ford-derived ... a fiberglass body (in a field), a chassis, and thirty-some boxes of parts. He and his dad, Joe, a ...

Lotus has never been a big car company, as measured by the size of its cars or the scope of its sales. This is a function of focus: Like Enzo Ferrari, Lotus founder Colin Chapman started building ...

Lotus Cars announced ... bringing the new Europa in at less than 2200 lb through extensive use of composites and an extruded and bonded aluminum chassis.

Rand Swanson bought the Europa from a racing team who used the car for parts, and shortly after that, he sold the original chassis because the LS swap is too much for the original underpinnings.

As we recently reported (see W*116), Lotus is branching ... and refinement. The Europa was for those who wanted touring, not torque, and the ability to travel a couple of hundred miles at a time.

Besides the mid-engine design, the Europa was unique in many other ways. Built on a steel backbone chassis just like its predecessor, the Lotus Elan, the Europa boasted a ground-breaking ...

Weighing in at just 995kg (under 2,200 lbs.), the Europa makes use of Lotus’ extruded and bonded aluminum chassis and composite paneling. Despite a curb weight that’s sure to have the Olsen ...

Rumor has it that Colin Chapman only came up with the Lotus Europa to win the ... Therefore, they extended a Type 47 chassis (the racing version of the Europa) chassis by three inches so that ...

The Europa combined Grand Prix technology with Chapman’s insistence that less weight, not brute force, was the best means of maximizing performance. Lotus took the steel backbone chassis of the ...