1991 90s nineties Lotus Elan SE 1588cc petrol 5 speed manual
The Lotus Elan, known as the M100 amongst Lotus enthusiast to differentiate it from the early Elans, was built to "Allow 100 per cent of its owners to use 90 per cent of its performance 90 per cent of the time." Introduced in 1989, the Elan was the first all-new Lotus since 1975. The Elan was intended to please drivers moving up from a "hot hatch". It was instantly derided by the motoring press for lacking the tail-out handling of traditional sports cars. Sadly, it was the right car at the wrong time. Every Elan built lost Lotus, owned by GM at the time, money. When the car was introduced to the US in ’91, it cost the same as a Porsche 911. Only 3,000 were sold world wide before a stop was put to production in ’92. Even then the Elan didn’t die there. Lotus revived it as the Elan S2 in ’94 with a limited run of 800 to use up remaining engines that had been bought from Isuzu. These sold instantly. There’s also a Kia version of the car that was sold in the far East until Purchase of KIA by Hundi sometime in the summer of 199
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Location: Manchester, UK
Photo credit: © ZarkePix / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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