Who designed the Elan?
The body was designed by the now well known Peter Stevens who went on to design the World’s fastest road car the MacLaren F1. As a little topical aside his services were also called upon to help Subaru improve the appearance of its Impreza! Simon Cox a graduate of the Royal College of Art styled the interior and Tickford did the development work on the hood. Blame them for the leaks! Jerry Booen designed the chassis after which Roger Becker and John Miles (who drove 12 times in Lotus Formula 1 around 1970) worked on the ride and handling. As an aside: Lotus never actually built the S1 chassis in house, a company called Motor Panels did this. For the S2 Lotus sourced the chassis panels and welded them together before sending the completed assembly to Motor Panels for electrostatic corrosion proofing.
