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Jacob Oliva

Perfect Ending: Last Lotus Elise Handed Over To Elisa Artioli

There were 35,124 Lotus Elise units ever produced, and the very last of them went to the very person the car was named after when it was launched.

The Lotus Elise was born in the mid-'90s. At that time, Romano Artioli was the chairman and owner of Lotus and Bugatti. The two-seat, mid-engined roadster was named after his granddaughter, Elisa Artioli, who was only two years old at the time the car was introduced. 

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