Spotted: Lotus that looks a lot like one of the ugliest cars ever - The Globe and Mail
As you may or may not know, Lotus founder Colin Chapman insisted that every car his company produced be named with a word starting with the letter “E. ” There have been two Lotus Elite’s. The first, produced from 1958 until 1963, is an all-time classic. The second Elite, as seen here, was a four-seat hatchback that came out in 1974, and was killed off in 1982. At the time of its introduction, the Elite was the world’s most expensive four-cylinder car. Then I remembered the American Motors Gremlin I spotted a few years ago at Dade County Motors, in Trenton, Georgia. The Gremlin came out in 1970 – four years before the Lotus Elite. The Caprice was one of Chevrolet’s most durable brand names (It first appeared in 1965, and became the company’s best-selling model. ) The fourth-generation Caprice station wagon, built from 1991 until 1996, was the last of the Caprice wagon line, killed by the rising demand for SUVs. Source: www.theglobeandmail.com
