The Lotus Elan M100 is one of the Lotus entries the open record knows by name and by date — in 1989, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
Family and rivals
Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Lexus LS, the Subaru Legacy, the Mazda MX-5 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Lotus stablemates include the Lotus 100T and the Lotus 101.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Lotus Elan M100 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.