The little mid-engine runabout was introduced to the US market for the 2005 model year, after becoming the best-selling Lotus ever in Europe, where it was sold since 1996. Changes for the 2007 model year involve new headlights and hence a redesigned front end to house them for US law compliance. On the cozy inside, the Alpine head units are replaced with higher-end ones, with the base Elise ...

Introduced in 2009, the Lotus Evora became the company's fourth model globally, and its third offered in North America. Notably, the Evora is the only 2+2 sports car on the market with a mid-engine configuration. The Evora is designed to compete with Porsche's Cayman on the performance side, but will be slightly more practical thanks to its available four-passenger capacity. Lotus says the ...

First brought to the US for 2007, the Exige S was the quickest street legal car the company produced. Now, the new beefed up Exige S 240 takes the crown for the fastest Lotus to his the streets yet. Apart from more power, the Exige S 240 differs from the Elise in that it comes as a hardtop coupe and is a more hard-core performance car, which could be readily taken to track days. To this end, ...