Former Ferrari designer Donato Coco is to join Lotus as Director of Design alongside his former Ferrari colleague Dany Bahar who is now Lotus CEO. As we’ve reported umpteen times this year, Lotus are getting things very right. They’re selling the new Lotus Evora hand over fist and have plans in place to a convertible […]
Lotus to double production – Return to Motorsport
Lotus has big plans to increase production to 8,00 cars a year in the next decade, and return to Le Mans, Indy Car and GT Racing. Through all the gloom and doom car makers have reported over the last year and more there has been one shining light which has seemed impervious to the downturn […]
New Lotus Esprit gets green light
Lotus has given the green light to a new Lotus Esprit featuring the V10 from the Lexus LF-A. Scheduled to hit the road in 2012. Back in September – when we reported that Lotus had delivered the first Evora to a customer – we noted that the success of the Evora would underpin the future […]
Lotus Evora platform up for grabs
Lotus are offering their Evora platform to car makers looking to produce niche cars. Lotus is a small, profitable and innovative company working miles away from any tech valleys or high profile sites, buried away in rural Norfolk. But with the car world losing shed loads of cash on a daily basis Lotus has remained […]
Lotus Exige Scura Press Release
The Lotus force has a dark side: Revealed – the exclusive ‘Exige Scura’ Lotus Cars unveils its latest special edition – the Exige Scura, so called due to its dramatic matt black and carbon fibre theme, at the Tokyo International Motorshow on 21st of October 2009. Translated as ‘dark’ from Italian, the name ‘Scura’ reflects […]
Lotus Exige Scura revealed
Lotus has revealed the Exige Scura – to be know as the Stealth Edition in Japan – a tweaked Exige S offering 260bhp. It will debut at Tokyo. The organisers of the Tokyo Motor Show must be chuffed that at least one non-Japanese car maker is turning up to show their wares. And that one […]
Lotus Range Extender Engine – fit for Jag
Lotus has developed a 1.2 litre 47bhp Range Extender Engine that will show at Frankfurt and be trialled in a Jaguar XJ. Lotus have been innovators – and innovators on a budget at that – ever since Colin Chapman took them to the top of the road car and track car tree in the seventies. […]
Lotus Elise Club Racer for Frankfurt
Lotus has released details of a special edition Elise – the Lotus Elise Club Racer – which will be revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show. Lotus has been focusing on the Louts Evora of late, and recently delivered the first customer car. But the Elise has been the bedrock of Lotus for a decade, so […]
Lotus Evora – first customer car delivered
Lotus are pinning some big hopes on their latest offering – the Lotus Evora. The future of the new Lotus Esprit would seem to hang on the success of the 2+2 Evora as – to a degree – does the convertible version of the Evora. But it would appear that Lotus have little to worry […]
Lotus Electric City Car Revealed
There’s been a fair bit of speculation that Lotus will produce an electric version of the Elise. After all, Lotus are a very innovative company and they already produce the running gear for the Tesla Roadster. And it seemed likely that Lotus would produce a Lotus Evora Electric after Lotus boss Mike Kimberley revealed back […]