Senna celebration at Goodwood Members’ Meeting
The 40th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s first Formula One victory will be celebrated at Goodwood… Continue reading Senna celebration at Goodwood Members’ Meeting
Lotus events 2025
We’ve just given our Lotus events listing an update for 2025. To be included, each fixture must be Lotus specific and open to all Lotus owners. If there are any Lotus-specific events you know about that we haven’t listed, drop us a line and we’ll add them. This listing will be updated as and when events are confirmed. Absolute Lotus Highland Tour ScotlandThursday 8 May … Continue reading Lotus events 2025
Lotus Elise 1.6 Touring Silverstone
2014, Carbon grey with the factory option power pack sports exhaust upgrade. Under 20,000 miles and serviced annually, since new, by Hangar 111. Red leather interior, soft and hard top. Six-speed, close ratio manual gearbox. The Touring Pack also includes additional bulkhead and floor pan soundproofing and a lined soft top. There is also a summer fly cover supplied for those rain showers, when … Continue reading Lotus Elise 1.6 Touring Silverstone
Long read: Jenks’ illegal Christmas day road test
Denis Jenkinson’s attempt to drive the Lotus Type 12 on 180 miles of public roads was probably the most unusual and illicit of his life Continue reading Long read: Jenks’ illegal Christmas day road test
Video: Bond’s Esprit before the big screen
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 hybrid? We’ve been here before
Lotus had plans to sell hybrid tech to other OEMs in 2009… Continue reading Lotus hybrid? We’ve been here before
Elite 50th celebrations headline Lotus stars of NEC
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
Elan M200 Speedster sells for $62,500
Lotus removed the roof and windscreen from the Elan to create the M200 concept Continue reading Elan M200 Speedster sells for $62,500
Video: Ex-Jim Cark Lotus battling for Goodwood victory
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
Lotus luminaries reunited at Hethel
Photos from the 2024 Lotus Renuion at Hethel Continue reading Lotus luminaries reunited at Hethel
Video: The Lotus saloon that never was
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
Theory 1: Lotus’s ‘new design manifesto’
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’
If you can’t beat them, join them: The ‘Frogeye’ Sprite with a Lotus Elan heart
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
Video: Lotus Mark VIII testing in 1954
Classic Team Lotus is reigniting its YouTube channel, and one of the first videos of the new era was some rare footage of the Lotus Mark VIII. The recently unearthed footage has been unseen for decades, and shows the Mark VIII behind the scenes undergoing testing and racing in 1954. When it was first revealed, the Mark VIII was unlike any other racing car. The … Continue reading Video: Lotus Mark VIII testing in 1954
Psychedelic Lotus Seven barn find at rest since 1972
If you’ve read Issue 39 of Absolute Lotus (in the shops at the time of posting this), you’ll have seen the Shapecraft Elan that’s bedecked in 1970s modifications. Far from being in the usual race trim, it’s instead sporting a vinyl roof and Revolution four-spokes. It reminded us of another Lotus that had been hidden away since the most garish decade – a Seven S2 that … Continue reading Psychedelic Lotus Seven barn find at rest since 1972
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How to place your advert
Sell your car with Absolute Lotus Now in the magazine and online! You can place an advert which will appear online and in the magazine for two issues (eight weeks) or until you inform us that the car has sold for just £25. How to place your advert 1. Pay for your advert here: www.performancepublishing.co.uk 2. Email the following (in one email) to: adam@performancepublishing.co.uk Description of the car … Continue reading How to place your advert
Lotus at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed
It was MG’s year at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the Chinese-owned British marque celebrating its centenary the Duke of Richmond’s annual automotive garden party. But it’s the other Chinese-owned British marque that we were focusing on, with Lotus represented on the hill by a plethora of machines, from Grand Prix racers to the latest electrified offerings. Perhaps the biggest talking point was when the … Continue reading Lotus at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed
Type 49 crowned Race Car of the Century
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
From Mark VI to Eletre at the Lotus Picnic
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
The case for internal combustion
In Issue 36 of Absolute Lotus, the innovative Lotus Exige 270E was featured as a tri-fuel car running on petrol, ethonoal, and methanol. Developed as an environmentally friendly alternative to mass electrification, it represented a significant step forward in the “e-fuel” concept. Consequently, it demonstrated promising potential for addressing carbon emissions in the transport sector. Continue reading The case for internal combustion
Video: Plucky Lotus Elan battles AC Cobra
One of the greatest spectacles provided by historic motorsport is the little versus large battles, Whether it’s Minis going up against V8 saloons or nimbles Lotuses battling big-banger GT cars. Throwing together grid of cars that approach the business of going fast in completely different ways always provides spectacular, close racing. This on-board video from the Lotus Elan of Nigel Greensall provides exactly that. This … Continue reading Video: Plucky Lotus Elan battles AC Cobra
Gallery: Wedges on track at Castle Combe
Club Lotus’s annual trackday at Castle Combe is one of the largest regular gatherings of Lotuses and for 2024’s event the sun shone on the Wiltshire circuit. The gates are open to all enthusiasts of the marque, but track access is exclusive to members of Club Lotus. Not everyone takes to the track, but for those who don’t want to drive at full pace the … Continue reading Gallery: Wedges on track at Castle Combe
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