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Lotus Elise Sport 240 Final Edition

3 years ago

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Writer:

Dan Prosser | Ti co-founder

Date:

20 May 2021

The Lotus Elise will finally bow out this year, a quarter of a century after it arrived with such fanfare. Along with the Exige and Evora, two other Lotus models that seem to have been on sale forever, it’ll make way for the all-new Emira. What pressure will land on that car’s shoulders. But until then there is this, the Final Edition version of the little two-seater that for people of my generation is the archetypal Lotus, even more so than any Elan or Esprit.

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