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Zenos E10
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|January 2026
Now it's back, the original version of this lightweight roadster looks like a bargain
A VERY UNUSUAL car just popped up on a list judged by Hagerty to be among the most collectable of the past 25 years still available for under £25,000: the Zenos E10R. It was the most powerful iteration of the original E10, a car built from 2015 to 2016 in Norfolk and designed to be the spiritual successor to the affordable, pared-down, high-performance roadsters that had been built nearby at Lotus.
This story is from the January 2026 edition of Octane.
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