That advert says it is a LOTUS Evante, which is wrong, they were not made by Lotus.
Designed (I think) by George Robinson, they were made by Vegantune of Spalding, then a bit later they spawned a new firm called Evante Cars. The Venture capitatist who put up the money, did not understand the sports car market & Evante Cars went bust taking Vegantune of Spalding out with it. Shame really, it's a brilliant car and there are not many around.
Evante's have carbon fibre in the makeup of crucial parts of the body such as the built in front bumper and kevlar in the rest of the body such as bonnet. (bullet proof?)
When Vegantune were re-furbing my Elan in 1982/83, on one of my visits, George demonstrated the strength of the bonnet, by standing on it (on the floor). That would break an Elan bonnet.
There are lots of other changes in an Evante too, such as the Vegantune engine, which has external drive belt instead of a timing chain (and an external water pump, I think).
If that car has a Zetec engine, then perhaps it is not the original engine.
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Ah, it looks as if one of the last projects of Vegantune Spalding or Evante Cars Ltd was making that Zetec based engine.
After George's Vegantune went bust, Richard Marshall bought the name, some of the assets and UK servicing rights for the Evante cars. So Vegantune was re-born in Finchley London, UK.
I had various servicing and repair jobs done on my Elan by Richard's Vegantune and with what was supposed to be part of my payment, in 2001, I developed an active website for Vegantune (of Finchley), but Richard did not create the final 'content' for me so it was never launched. Pity really because it included a forum section etc.
Eventually when Richard got some more funding, they went for a crappy static, brochure website with FLASH animations etc. i.e a PR website instead of a useful technical one. Vegantune Finchley went bust too, could that be because he didn't use my web design???
I'll try post here some of the text content that I did have from their paper brochures, which included descriptions of the Evante and the Vegantune VTA engine.