Rank 35 in Heritage Icons documents the Lotus Elan as a marque specimen — Colin Chapman's Lotus Elan combined a fibreglass body with a steel backbone chassis and Ford-based twin-cam power — roughly 12,000 built, and the handling benchmark that journalists still invoke when describing steering feel. The plate treats coachwork, era, and silhouette as catalog facts on warm stone paper, exactly as a museum marque icon layout demands before you open the ownership history.