Lotus Europa

The Lotus Europa was a two aperture mid-engined GT coupé sports car made by Lotus Cars from 1966 to 1975. In 2006 Lotus began assembly of a absolutely new, Lotus Elise-derived design, a mid-engined GT coupé called Europa S. The aboriginal Europa acclimated Lotus architect Colin Chapman's minimalist animate courage anatomy that was aboriginal acclimated in the Lotus Elan, while additionally relying on its fibreglass moulded anatomy for structural strength. The Europa was the aboriginal banal mid-engine alley car and was based on a ancestor congenital to attempt for Henry Ford II's arrangement to body a Le Mans chase car in the aboriginal 1960s.