EAST ANGULAR The Esprit is 50. Helped by dedicated owners and the people who created it, we tell the story of the Lotus that dared to be different Right. I’m going to tell this story without ...

It was an enlarged version of the concept that underpinned their first mid-engined road car, the somewhat peculiar-looking Europa ... from the main Lotus facility up the road at Ketteringham Hall.

The Lotus Europa has always lived in the shadow of its prettier cousin, the Lotus Elan.. but could it be that all this time we were celebrating the wrong car? This was Lotus' first mid engined car ...

We admit that we harbored strong prejudices against the new Lotus Elan even before we sat in it. This bias stemmed from having driven, years ago, a Lotus Europa ... The chassis is a steel backbone ...

Open-wheeled sports cars are cool but probably not as cool as this hardly recognizable 1970 Lotus Europa. Yes, underneath that shiny body lies a classic Lotus sports car, and despite the radical ...

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 ...

Basically, Ant was looking for a new project for a TV show, came up with the idea of rethinking the Lotus Europa and then realised ... It’s based on the Exige chassis and has a 3.5-litre ...

The new car’s spaceframe chassis was ... the mid-engined Europa and the old aluminum body panels had been swapped for an in-vogue fiberglass body more like the ones Lotus used on its other ...

Running or restoring an older Lotus requires some bravery—many of these cars use expensive parts and can be challenging to work on. The British sports car company just dropped a new parts ...

It has started producing some chassis parts for the U.S. market in Thailand instead, to get around the tariffs. CIMC’s U.S. subsidiary, CIE Manufacturing, has facilities in California and ...