SERIES 1 LOTUS ELISE
WHEN THE CURTAINS dropped on the original Lotus Elise at the Frankfurt Motor show in 1995, it debuted the brand’s biggest step-change in focus since the revolutionary Type 75 Elite of the 1970s.
The Elise, named after the granddaughter of Lotus and Bugatti Chairman, Romano Artioli, was a watershed model for the niche British marque. At half the price of the Series 2 Elan, and a third of a new Esprit, the Elise would go on to become Lotus’ most successful model ever and sparked a lineage that would endure
