Lotus stopped making the Elise after 25 years, which is sad if you think about it, but this moment was inevitable. The British marque has pledged to stop making gasoline-engined cars, and all its ...

Twenty-five years after it first began, Lotus Elise production is coming to an end. The final Elise, however, has been reserved for somebody very fitting: Elisa Artioli, the woman the car was ...

The Lotus Elise has been around since 1996 and was last updated in 2011 before fading away into oblivion in 2021. The fact that it is still highly relevant even today is a credit to the work of the ...

When Lotus introduced the Elise mid-engined sports car in 1996, the model embodied the company’s ethos of “adding lightness” like almost no other Lotus before it and weighed under 1,600 pounds. The ...

Modifying an old Lotus into an electric sports car isn’t a new concept—that’s how Tesla started. Of course, electric vehicles are no longer novel, so the idea of another startup following the Tesla ...

The Elise is dead. Lotus stopped building the roadster at the end of 2021, capping off a 25-year run that helped keep the British automaker alive into the 21st century. It's sad news for car ...

The nimble mid-engine two-seater featured a revolutionary lightweight design that made the Miata seem like a porker. Weight, as any race-car engineer will attest, is the enemy of performance. It ...

Get Lost, a new London-based company, has revealed what it calls "Project Safari," an off-road-ready Lotus Elise S1. This safari-style Elise restomod offers ultra-lightweight motoring and can hit ...

It’s a tribute to the excellence of the Lotus Elise that it’s still being sold more than 25 years after it was first introduced, albeit with a number of modifications during the years. It still ...

We've been anxiously awaiting our first test of the 2005 Lotus Elise. All the worldwide hullabaloo surrounding this car (available elsewhere since 1996!) worried us that the Elise we Americans would ...