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GROUP LOTUS is considering the prospect of legal action after revealing it has not been consulted over Litespeed’s decision to revive the Team Lotus moniker for the 2010 Formula One season.
Litespeed’s founders Nino Judge and Steve Kenchington received permission from Team Lotus rights holder David Hunt to use the brand in an attempt to boost [...]
LOTUS IS THE LATEST famous name set to return to the Formula 1 scene after 2010 aspirants Litespeed gained permission to compete under the famous moniker.
Litespeed founders and former Lotus engineers, Nino Judge and Steve Kenchington, sought out Team Lotus rights-holder David Hunt to bolster its bid for a place on the F1 grid next [...]
WE FIRST SAW the 2010 Lotus Evora on Australian shores at the 2009 Melbourne International Motor Show back in February, and now Lotus has released details of its all-new supercar’s launch into Aussie showrooms.
The Evora is powered by a Toyota-sourced 3.5 litre V6 developing 206kW and 341Nm of torque, channelled through a six-speed manual transmission [...]
WORD AROUND THE traps is that Lotus’ upcoming Esprit successor may come in V10 trim, with the Lexus LF-A’s bent-ten speculated to be the powerplant of choice.
Lotus currently enjoys a close relationship with Japan’s biggest automaker, and uses the company’s 2GR-FE 3.5 litre V6 in the Evora and its 1ZZ-FE 1.8 litre four cylinder in [...]
According to Lotus insiders, the next-gen Elise will arrive sometime in early 2011 followed by an all-new V8-powered Esprit in 2012.
The 2011 Elise will likely be built upon an evolved version of the current model’s extruded-aluminium underpinnings and continue the same formula that’s made the pint-sized sportscar a track day fave, but the Esprit will [...]
Dual fuel is so old hat, but Tri-Fuel? Now that’s something to get excited about. Apparently we weren’t the only ones who took great interest in the Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel when it was first unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show last year.
Lotus Enthusiast is reporting that strong interest from Youngman Auto (Lotus’ Chinese partner) [...]
More for less is always a good way to win favour with buyers and Lotus may be looking to offer just that with a rumoured Elise Purist model.
Lotus Enthusiast is reporting that the Elise Purist will soon be available in the US and will be based on the Lotus Elise Sport Package.
To sweeten the deal [...]
With its European launch a mere month away, Lotus has served up another heaping of 2010 Lotus Evora images to keep that steady flow of anticipation going.
Powered by a Toyota-sourced 3.5 litre V6 punching out 206kW (272hp) and 341Nm (252lb-ft) of torque, the Evora will knock over 0-100km/h in about 5 seconds, making it a [...]
Lighter, meaner, rawer. This really is a pocket-rocket ‘ready to race’ straight from the Lotus production line.
Lotus has brought into Australia just three 2009 Exige Cup 260 event-ready cars for a lucky trio of track day enthusiasts ready to go to the next level of competition.
Today, Targa Tasmania, one of Australia’s most famous tarmac events, [...]
If you’ve become concerned over the past few years that more electric cars on the road means less engine rumble to light your day, and to alert you when you’re about to be skittled, you’re in luck.
As reported last August, Lotus and Harman have teamed up to develop a sound system to help pedestrians who [...]
The terms ‘environmentally friendly’ and ‘supercars’ aren’t ones that show up often in the same sentence, but cleanliness is next to godliness (so they say) and supercars are about as close to godhood as cars get.
It seems that environmentally-conscious supercars are becoming more of a reality. Take Lotus, for instance, with the 2010 Lotus Elise and [...]
The 2009 Targa Tasmania will mark the worldwide tarmac rally debut of Lotus’ performance orientated Exige Cup 260.
Piloted by motoring scribe Dean Evans, the car will race largely in showroom trim, with the only addition being a roll cage.
Other factory installed features include fully adjustable suspension and AP Racing brakes.
Weighing a total of 890kg - [...]
What happens when you take one Lotus Exige S, bolt in the most powerful four-cylinder engine ever fitted to a Lotus production car and then wrap the whole thing in a carbon-fibre body? You get the Lotus Exige Cup 260, that’s what.
The Exige 260 Cup is a fully-fledged race car for the road and weighs [...]
A UK driver has avoided a jail term after it was determined that his Lotus Elise was physically incapable of reaching the 278km/h (173 mph) that he was supposedly recorded doing.
In the UK, a 150mph-plus speeding ticket is also a go-directly-to-jail card. Understandable, considering you’d have be certifiably mad to be going that fast on [...]
A hod-load of boffins from Lotus Engineering, Continental Powertrain, University College London and Loughborough University have come up with an innovative direct-injection engine that reduces fuel consumption by 15 percent.
They studied the potential efficiency gains of spraying fuel directly into the cylinders of a petrol engine, rather than introducing a fuel/air mixture.
The project - called [...]
TMR’s Supercar aficionado Beddy almost blew his wad (of cash) when the Lotus Evora was unveiled at the Melbourne International Motor Show this year, and we can’t blame the guy – it’s a stunning step forward for the British marque.
Production of the Evora is now underway at Lotus’ Worcester and Hethel plants in the UK, [...]
While the stunning Evora has given us a glimpse of the future for the Lotus brand, the Exige S – the supercharged version of the aging Exige – is set to receive a facelift and another dose of power.
Lotus’ supercharged giant-killer will receive an updated front bumper, as well as a larger, carbon-fibre wing.
That new [...]
There was an air of excitement surrounding the Lotus stand as the minutes counted down to the launch of the new Evora, the first truly all-new car from Lotus in over a decade.
As the smoke and lights display was deployed to full effect and the silk sheet was slipped back, revealed was the only Lotus Evora in [...]
Expected to go on sale in Australia in the third quarter of 2009, the new Lotus Evora has generated extensive interest - and orders - since its first showing at the British International Motor Show in July. And now it’s on show here. The list of celebrities who have their names in the Evora order [...]
Buying that ‘Plucky Brit’ go-cart isn’t going to cost you any more than it did back in the good ol’ pre-meltdown days of 2008.
Lotus Cars Australia, commendably made the decision to absorb the Luxury Car Tax increase, introduced in 2008, rather than pass it onto their customers (a saving of up to $3,000 on some [...]
If the superb handling of a Lotus appeals to you, but the stripped-out racer levels of comfort do not, then rest assured: Jaguar has your best interests at heart. After collaborating with Lotus Engineering for suspension tuning of the XKR and limited edition XKR-S coupe, the two Brits are working together, this time on the engineering [...]
It was set to make a heroic comeback in 2009, but word on the interwebs is that Lotus has delayed the return of its Esprit until 2011. Now, we aren’t sure if this delay can be attributed to the current global credit unpleasantness, or simply Lotus wanting more time to get their next supercar…’just [...]
Lotus is reportedly planning a blown version of the Evora, which will apparently be able to jump from 0-100 in less than 5 seconds and run to a 282kph top speed.
A Lotus engineer spoke to British car mag Autocar recently, saying the Hethel-based carmaker ”already had a blown version of the V6 engine running on a [...]
As if it wasn’t hardcore enough, Lotus has sent its roofless, windscreen-less and waif-like 2-Eleven to its in-house performance division Lotus Sport. The end result is a car that’s more manic, more focused and a hell of a lot more impractical than before.
Called the Lotus Sport 2-Eleven GT4 Supersport (let’s just call it the GT4, [...]
There are views – supported by countless motoring press articles worldwide - that the Lotus Elise and Exige family are the best handling sports cars in the world. Some even going so far as to compare them to the handling of a Ferrari. A bold statement, but I could possibly be starting to agree.
The Elise [...]
Lotus has unveiled the hottest looking Exige from the factory yet. The specialised sports-car maker has taken the already savage racetrack-ready 2008 Exige CUP, removed weight without compromising its legendary handling and ‘driveability’, whilst leaving the potent 260 HP Toyota supercharged engine well-enough alone for this release. This track-biased but road-registrable (in the EU) featherweight [...]
British sports car builder and chassis tuning legend Lotus yesterday celebrated its 60th birthday, and to mark the occasion treated itself to yet another special edition model. Called the diamond anniversary Lotus Europa, this customised version of the Elise-based sports coupe flaunts enough bling to turn your average rap star green with envy. On [...]
Is this the best looking Lotus Elise ever, or am I just a nostalgia buff with a penchant for British Racing Green? Unfortunately, this particular Elise, the Clark Type 25 Elise SC, won’t be making its way to the colonies – it’s a Europe only limited edition.
Built in limited numbers as a tribute to Jim [...]
Lotus has announced that it will be developing a new biofuel-powered testbed engine for research into increasing the fuel efficiency of ‘flex-fuel’ engines - those designed to operate on both petrol and alcohol-based fuels like ethanol.
The single-cylinder OMNIVORE engine will be completed in 2009 and will feature variable compression ratio technology and direct fuel injection. It will also operate on [...]
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