| Un - temperamental power, brilliant handling in an | | | | The Chapman designed front & rear soft sprung |
| affordable road car. The Result: More fun per dollar | | | | independent suspension provided sure footed handling |
| than an E-Type. | | | | and frightening road adhesion and grip, all the more |
| That's how the much revered lotus elan was summed | | | | remarkable when you consider that the standard tyres |
| up by Aust sports car world magazine motoring | | | | were of 70 series mounted on 4.5" rims. |
| journalists back in the 1960s when they evaluated 100 | | | | The remarkable design parameters of the lotus elan |
| Years Of Sporting Cars - and then chose The Top | | | | resulted in a car that delivered outstanding |
| Ten. | | | | performance, it was, and still is a car that is capable of |
| There probably wont be any surprises when you learn | | | | delivering very rapid point to point travel times without |
| which one of the top ten was chosen as the best of | | | | any need to explore it's top speed, nor will you need to |
| the sixties sports cars? | | | | exceed the given road speed limits, there are few |
| No prizes for guessing that it was the indomitable | | | | cars of the sixties era that provide driving enjoyment |
| Lotus elan, the lightweight lotus elan that provided | | | | quite like the lotus elan is capable of. |
| simply amazing performance for the price. The late | | | | Today, the remainder of the surviving lotus |
| Colin Chapman had an uncanny ability to make | | | | élan's on the road are mostly owned by people |
| mundane materials work smarter as well as just a little | | | | who are passionate about the marque, they maintain |
| bit harder. | | | | them and even refine the cars to improve the general |
| What made the elan a milestone performance car of | | | | day to day driving enjoyment even more. |
| the sixties was the way it packaged a cutting edge | | | | Production numbers of the lotus elan hovered around |
| sheet metal folded & fabricated backbone | | | | the twelve thousand mark, but the total number in |
| chassis design which was coupled with a very willing | | | | existence today may well be much less than that, |
| & powerful twin cam engine which provided | | | | perhaps that augers well for the present day owners |
| affordable, reliable and entertaining motoring. | | | | who know & appreciate the real value of owning |
| Remember to, that the 1960's was the decade of the | | | | such a magnificent 1960's performance car, as more |
| E-type Jaguar & big banger exotic sports cars, | | | | & more classic sports motoring enthusiasts wake |
| yet none of these so called exotics came anywhere | | | | up to what these brilliant lotus cars represent in |
| near the lotus elan for delivering maximum driving fun | | | | motoring terms, the market values will continue to rise |
| per dollar. | | | | as the last surviving cars are snapped up by current |
| A willing twin cam engine coupled to an ultra close ratio | | | | and new lotus enthusiasts alike. In this over regulated, |
| four speed gearbox, a lightweight, yet torsionally ridged | | | | dumbed down world of today, car enthusiasts around |
| backbone chassis clothed in an equally lightweight | | | | the world will never see another sports machine quite |
| fibreglass body provided incredible performance from | | | | like the lotus elan. |
| such a small package. | | | | |