To the uninitiated, the Lotus Exige S1 looks like an early Elise with a hardtop and a set of spoilers, and some Elise owners ...

Weighing just 725 kilograms and powered by a 1.8-litre K-Series engine, Lotus set the small-but-mighty motoring category ...

Lotus never managed to bring the original Series ... Of course, with the first examples being built in 1997, the S1 Elise is eligible for import into the U.S. now, But it's very unlikely you ...

I can't quite remember the point when it lengthened to connect the base of the Elise's windscreen with the top, but the crack eventually became so annoying, not to mention a sure-fire MOT failure ...

The designer of the original Lotus Elise has reimagined his seminal ... Designer Julian Thomson, now at General Motors but best known for the Elise S1 (as well as various Volkswagen Group concepts ...

So as Lotus slowly awakens from the surreal nightmare ... It’s hard to find the right adjective to describe how this S1 Elise feels on the road, but for some reason the word that keeps popping ...

Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 2 Door Coupe across different levels of condition. Edit options.

the S3 Elise still possesses the agility and unmistakable flow that made the S1 cars so special. More than two decades on, and now finally out of production, that trademark Lotus handling magic is ...