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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lotus is developing this chassis, which consists of three parts -- a rear subframe for the engine, center section for the passenger compartment, and the front module seen here -- for Project Eagle ...

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 ...

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 ...