Lotus are building a new V8 engine for the new Esprit, and it’s reported they will also create a four cylinder engine from half the V8 for the next generation Elise. It seems that Lotus are deadly serious in their plans to build an all new V8 engine to drop in to the new Lotus Esprit, and […]
Lotus to build own V8 for Lotus ‘More Authentic’ than 458 or MP4-12C
Dany Bahar – Lotus CEO – says Lotus are to build their own V8, and that the new Esprit will be more authentic than a 458 or MP4-12C. We thought Lotus were mad brave to announce to the world last year that they were turning themselves in to an East Anglian Aston Martin with a completely […]
Team Lotus snaps up Caterham +video
Team Lotus – in the guise of Tony Fernandes – has snapped up Caterham cars, bringing the link to Colin Chapman’s Lotus full circle. Team Lotus – that’s the ‘Lotus’ F1 run by Tony Fernandes, not the Hethel mob run by Dany Bahar – has bought Caterham Cars from Corven Ventures for an undisclosed sum. Which is […]
Lotus Evora: The Video Advert
Lotus has put together an advert for the Lotus Evora featuring the Evora having some hooning fun in a multi-storey car park. An advert for Lotus isn’t something you see every day. An advert destined for TV or cinema is even rarer. So when this Lotus Evora VT dropped in to our Inbox this morning […]
Lotus Elise Club Racer Launched
Lotus reveals the Lotus Elise Club Racer, a stripped-down track-day Elise with Sport settings and no home comforts. Lotus may have plans to be the next Aston Martin, but for now it’s stuck with an Evora that’s not selling as well as it should and an Elise that is basically the same as the car […]
Lotus Evora Facelift? No, it’s the Lotus Evora Mansory
The rumoured Lotus Evora facelift turns out to be a Mansory Lotus Evora with a new nose and lots of carbon fibre trim and is “…a taste of the future of Lotus product customisation.” The Interwebs have had a little buzz these last few days about a facelift for the Lotus Evora. It seems the […]
2011 Lotus Exige at Geneva; 2012 Lotus Evora quality boost planned
Lotus are planning to update the Lotus Exige for 2011 and give the Lotus Evora a more upmarket cabin for the 2012 MY. With all the hype that surrounded the recent Lotus outing at the Paris Motor Show it would be quite easy to forget that Lotus already has a range of cars to sell. […]
Lotus City Car Confirmed
The Lotus City Car – a range-extender 1.2 litre 3-pot – will go on sale in 2013. At the Paris Motor Show back in September Lotus arrived with more ‘New’ cars than any other car maker – much to everyone’s amazement. There was everything from the mid-engined Lotus Esprit to the Rapide-challenging four-door supercar that […]
Lotus Europa becomes Proton Lekir
Lotus owners Proton have revealed a re-badged Lotus Europa as the Proton Lekir Concept at the Kuala Lumpur Motor Show. Lotus tried to make the 2006 Lotus Europa fulfil the same role in its lineup the original Lotus Europa did in the sixties – a bigger version of the main range. In the ’60s it […]
New Lotus Esprit is real. The rest of the Lotus ‘Wish List’ isn’t
Lotus revealed the Eterne, Elite, Elan, Esprit and a new Elise at last months’ Paris Motor Show. But only the New Lotus Esprit is actually being developed. The biggest surprise at the Paris Motor Show last month was a veritable shoal of new Lotus (Lotuses? Loti?) – far beyond anything we had expected. What we […]