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 […]
Hybrid Cars are Dangerous
If we’re talking about the likes of the Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight, we find them a danger to our sensibilities as they are unpleasant to drive. If you simply want to get from A to B economically that’s fine, but the driving experience is none existent. Still lots of people just want transport, […]
New Lotus Esprit to get Lexus V10?
Lotus is a big fan of the Toyota engine. The new Lotus Evora features a 3.5 litre V6 sourced from Toyota, and the Lotus Elise uses a 1.8 litre from the same stable. So it will be no surprise that Lotus is reported to be transplanting a range of Lexus engines in to the new […]
Aston Martin One-77 UK Debut Salon Privé
Aston Martin brought us the first sight of the Aston Martin One-77 at Geneva in February, but that wasn’t the finished car and only lasted a day on the stand before it was replaced by the Lagonda Concept. Aston were eager to get the car back to the UK to finish preparing it fully for […]
New Lotus Esprit still on schedule
> All the attention at Lotus at the moment is focused on the new Evora. The Lotus Evora launches in the UK in June, and the Lotus Evora Convertible is on schedule for a reveal in 2011. But Lotus are working on the next wave of changes at Hethel, which includes new versions of the […]
Lotus Evora Convertible – Just a 2 seater
We are finally getting to the point where the first Lotus Evora customer cars are about to be delivered (well, next month) and we brought you new pictures of the Lotus Evora last week after Lotus decided they ought to keep the interest up. But now we see the Evora as a done deal, it […]
Lotus Evora – all new photos
Ahead of the launch of the Lotus Evora in June in the UK, Lotus has issued a complete new set of photos of the mid-engined 2+2 sports car. It does seem to have taken for ever to get the Lotus Evora in to showrooms – it’s been coming for almost a year now. We […]