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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Lotus Elise is dead. If you're in America, that's been true since the car left our market in 2011. But for international customers, now is your final chance to own the iconic sports car, the car ...

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 ...

When the original Lotus Elise came out back in 1997, it was a return to form for the British automaker after the relative flop that was the front-wheel-drive Elan. Founder Colin Chapman’s philosophy ...

Weight, as any race-car engineer will attest, is the enemy of performance. It affects acceleration, braking, cornering grip, and basically any other measurable aspect of a vehicle’s dynamic capability ...