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By: Brooklands Books . The Series I Europa was introduced as an export-only model. It used the 1470cc Renault engine slightly tweaked. The chassis was bonded to the body making work expensive and the ventilation needed improving. The Series 2 had a...

By: Brooklands Books . Affordable performance was what was intended with the Lotus Seven. The car went through several permutations to end up as the S4 in 1973 but remained true to its original concept throughout. The fact that they were sold as kits...

By: Brooklands Books . The Elite and Eclat were never cheap and were not meant to be affordable by the everyday motorist. They exist in various forms with lots of optional equipment and all are fast Grand Tourers. All these cars are based on the same...

By: Chris Harvey . This book highlights the activities of the non single-seater Lotus from the very first Austin Seven used in trials in 1948 through to the current Esprit and Talbot Sunbeam Lotus. Those familiar names abound: Lotus 6, 7, Eleven,...

By: Brooklands Books . "Simply the purest driving machine on the planet" so said Sam Mitani of Road & Track about the Elise based 340 R. This portfolio traces the progress of the superb Lotus Elise and its derivatives. Reported on are the...

By: John Tipler . The Lotus Elise is the latest in a long line of charismatic sports cars from the company started by Colin Chapman in 1948, and it embodies many of the features he believed were essential in such a car. It is small, simple, light and...

By: Chris Rees . Widely recognised as the standard work on the history of Caterham, covering all models from the original Lotus Seven of 1957 and its Caterham derivative of 1973 to the latest Cosworth-powered Caterham CSR of 2005. Caterham Sevens is the...

By: Dennis Ortenburger . - Mercian Reprint of classic original Low to the ground and satisfyingly noisy, the Lotus Seven comes as close to fulfilling the sports car fantasy as any vehicle before or since. Just how the legend grew and what the Seven is...

By: Brooklands Books . The Fulvia saloon of 1963 was one of Lancia?s first front-wheel-drive models. It was successful but disappeared from the range not long after Fiat bought the company out at the end of the 1960s. However the coupe derivative,...

By: Brooklands Books . The Stratos was built for one reason only  to give Lancia the World Championship, which it did in 1974, 1975 and 1976. It stayed competitive for several years. It was only for homologation reasons that cars for sale were...

By: Brooklands Books . This is the story of a rare and desirable Italian car, the Lancia Stratos that dominated the World Rally Championship and rewrote the rules in the 1970s. It is also the story of co-operation between rivals within the Italian...

By: Brooklands Books . In the 1950s these cars were offering a 60-degree V6, a transaxle on an affordable production saloon and independent rear suspension. The Aurelia saloon was an attractive shape and the GT coupes made from 1953 represented a classic...