Lotus and its founder Colin Chapman had developed quite a reputation for building potent, lightweight sports and racing cars by the early 1960s. A force to be reckoned with in both sports car racing ...

From the September/October 2024 issue of Car and Driver. You think you remember this car. You don't. What your memory is summoning is the original '60s-era Lotus Elan that was the size of a beehive ...

This is a 1965 Lotus Elan S2, a friendly-faced little roadster that looks like it just drove off the pages of a Richard Scarry Busytown book, pursued by Sergeant Murphy on his motorcycle. Don’t be ...