Director Lewis Gilbert gives reporter Tony Bastable some behind-the-scenes insight into its creation and why they used real cars for most of the stunts Continue reading Video: Bond’s Esprit before the big screen
Lotus had plans to sell hybrid tech to other OEMs in 2009… Continue reading Lotus hybrid? We’ve been here before
The Lotus Grand Tourers have put on a display of four Type 75s at the Classic Motor Show. It’s apt for the Elite, Eclat and Excel club to focus on the model that celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. It’s one of several Lotus clubs among the 3000 cars that were on show. Among the Lotus Grand Tourers gathering is Marcus Horrell’s recently completed restoration, … Continue reading Elite 50th celebrations headline Lotus stars of NEC
Lotus removed the roof and windscreen from the Elan to create the M200 concept Continue reading Elan M200 Speedster sells for $62,500
Ex-Jim Clark Lotus 25 battles for victory in the Glover Trophy at the Goodwood Revival Continue reading Video: Ex-Jim Cark Lotus battling for Goodwood victory
Photos from the 2024 Lotus Renuion at Hethel Continue reading Lotus luminaries reunited at Hethel
Lotus pondered its first saloon car in the late 1970s. It has taken until the Emeya for that ambition to be fulfilled Continue reading Video: The Lotus saloon that never was
The Theory 1 is Lotus’s greatest indication so far of its future electric sports cars… Continue reading Theory 1: Lotus’s ‘new design manifesto’
This is a new one on us. The Starley Lotus Sprite is a mash-up of the Austin-Healey ‘Frogeye’ Sprite Mk1 and a Lotus Elan, combining the modified shell of the former with the underpinnings of the latter. The story goes like this. The Sprite’s original owner, a Mr Starley, had been using the car on the road and in sprints and hillclimbs in the early … Continue reading If you can’t beat them, join them: The ‘Frogeye’ Sprite with a Lotus Elan heart
Motor Sport magazine has named its Race Car of the Century… and the prestigious honour went to the Lotus 49 Continue reading Type 49 crowned Race Car of the Century
It’s a simple enough concept: open up a field, invite Lotus owners to join a picnic and watch as close to 100 examples of the marque assemble for a sunny afternoon. That was Richard Hinton’s idea when he posted on the Historic Lotus Register’s Facebook page late last year about the event he was proposing, and that’s exactly what occurred on the first weekend of … Continue reading From Mark VI to Eletre at the Lotus Picnic
Eau Rouge with a Ford DFV at full chat. There can’t be many more evocative experiences in motorsport, but it’s one that sadly very few of us will be fortunate enough to live it for real. This on-board video, featuring Nigel Mansell’s Lotus 87B, might be the next best thing. Never mind what it looks like, though. With sound quality that does the subject justice, … Continue reading Video: Spectacular Lotus 87B Spa on-board
In the Venn diagram of Lotus enthusiasts and grammar pedants, there’s quite a number in the overlap. Certainly that appears to be the case if our email inbox is anything to go by every time a reader is irked by our use of the plural ‘Lotuses’. They’re quick to cite a press release issued by Lotus Cars in 1969 in which Hethel HQ decreed that … Continue reading The plural of Lotus is…?
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