This Lotus Elise S2 is an ultra-lightweight mid-engined roadster powered by a high strung Toyota 4 cylinder engine. It sits alone in a class of one, and aims to provide an absolutely pure driving ...

Imagine the consternation at Lotus when ... for the 1.8-litre Toyota VVTL-i unit used in the R, it made sense to return to Toyota to power the new Elise S. Not that the engine in the S is a ...

Lotus continues to use Toyota power plants ... Last time we tried an Elise Cup 250 the engine’s characterless sound was one of its few demerits, but exhaust noise is now a dominant feature ...