{"id":38034,"date":"2014-11-20T13:17:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=38034"},"modified":"2022-06-14T10:51:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T09:51:40","slug":"lotus-elan-s4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/cars\/lotus-elan-s4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Elan S4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We love this version of Lotus&#8217;s pop-eyed sportster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Introduced at the end of the sixties &#8211; it typified the little English sports car of the time \u2013 though those popups were sneered at by the flat cappers in their MGs. 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