Having owned an Elan coupe when I was young, I often wondered just how strong the thing was, as the chassis was designed on the backbone principle and there was nothing solid in the doors at all. If I had ever been unlucky enough to have a car, or worse, a lorry drive into the side of it, the driver or passenger would have been crushed up against the centre chassis. Luckily that never happened, but I have never been tempted to have another.
