M-Ela was a German one-off sports-car project built by Matthias Lorenz in Treuen, largely single-handedly, with support from the Vogtland section of the Deutscher Erfinder-Verband, an inventors' association. Its body, called the Ela LR1, dated from 2008 and was originally formed in aluminum as a positive plug for taking molds, with the intended production body to be made of fiberglass or carbon fiber. The car was designed as a mid-engined…
