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OUR BEST'90s CARS
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|September 24, 2025
The nineties were a golden age for car bynamics, engineering and design. Here are our team's top picks of the era
HAD Lotus not come up with the Elise back in 1996, the company may not still be in existence today. That's how crucial the little two-seater roadster was and it's no exaggeration to say the company could do with a similar injection of product-development genius today.
The Norfolk firm may have pivoted towards heavy and complex premium EVs in recent years under its new and complicated ownership structure, but the Elise was old-school Lotus purity fashioned in fibreglass.
The ethos behind the car was true to the vision of Lotus founder Colin Chapman: simplify, then add lightness. It had an aluminium chassis that was the perfect rigid base for its suspension, while the body helped keep the weight below 750kg.
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