Lotus Models

This lightweight, track-focused road car was introduced by Lotus at the 2007 Geneva Motor Show after first being previewed in 2005 under the internal code name “Circuit Car.” It was conceived as a stripped-back, highl...

This lightweight roadster was developed from a Lotus concept first shown at the 1998 Birmingham Motor Show in collaboration with Autocar, and it reached production about a year later. Lotus positioned it as a stripped...

This entry refers to Lotus’s Project Eagle development name, the pre-launch identifier for the mid-engined 2+2 sports car that was later introduced to the public as the Evora. Lotus’s own history places the car’s all-...

Introduced in 1975, this Lotus nameplate marked the brand’s move toward more practical grand touring cars while still keeping the lightweight, wedge-shaped character associated with its road cars. It was developed alo...

The nameplate first appeared in 1962 on a lightweight two-seat sports car that became one of Lotus’s defining road models of the 1960s. The original car was built around Colin Chapman’s low-weight philosophy, using a ...

Introduced in 2022 and launched for customer deliveries in 2023, this all-electric hyper-SUV marked a major turning point for Lotus. It was the brand’s first SUV, first five-door production car, and first model outsid...

Introduced for the 1956 season, this lightweight Lotus competition car marked an important turning point for the company. It was conceived as a single basic model after Lotus had become stretched by a busy 1955, and i...

Introduced at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1995 and reaching production for the 1996 model year, this lightweight two-seat sports car became one of the defining modern Lotus nameplates. It was named for Elisa...

This nameplate began with Lotus’s original Type 14, introduced at the 1957 Earls Court Motor Show as the company’s first four-seat road car. The early car was notable for its advanced fiberglass construction, lightwei...

This mid-engined Lotus sports car was unveiled in July 2021 as part of the brand’s major product and business transformation, and it reached customers as a 2022 model-year vehicle. Lotus positioned it as the final pet...

The nameplate was introduced in the mid-1970s and became one of Lotus’s most recognizable road cars. It grew out of the company’s Giugiaro-penned wedge-shaped concept and reached production for the 1976 model year, gi...

This nameplate began in 1966 as Lotus’s first mid-engined road car and one of the company’s most important early production models. The original car was developed as a lightweight, innovative sports coupé with a backb...

Introduced as the Type 122, this Lotus nameplate debuted at the 2008 British International Motor Show and reached customers for the 2009 model year. It marked an important step for the company: an all-new mid-engined ...

Lotus introduced this nameplate in 2000 as a harder-edged, track-focused derivative of the Elise. The car grew out of the Lotus Sport Elise race program created for the Autobytel Lotus Championship, and Lotus brought ...

This small British sports car nameplate first appeared in 1989 as Lotus’s modern front-wheel-drive reinterpretation of the classic Elan idea. Internally developed as Type 100, it was intended to broaden the brand’s ap...

This nameplate appears in the maker’s official legal design-and-patent listings as both a motor-vehicle design and a model-car design, but publicly available source material does not show a clearly documented retail p...

Monza was not a standalone Lotus nameplate sold to customers; it was the internal project code used for the second-generation Elise. Lotus introduced that new Elise in October 2000, and official Lotus materials descri...

This nameplate appears in U.S. NHTSA manufacturer records as a Lotus passenger-car model, and an example VIN decoder record identifies a 2007 model-year vehicle under this name. The available evidence is sparse, but i...

This mid-engine, Giugiaro-penned wedge marked Lotus’s move into turbocharged flagship territory. Introduced for 1980, it built on the established Esprit line but added forced induction and a revised 2.2-litre four-cyl...