A New Era Ahead Lotus CEO Danny Bahar unveils new cars and plans for the company at the Paris auto show... Read More
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Because Toyota has stopped making the 2ZZ-GE four-cylinder engines that power them, U.S. versions of the Lotus Elise and Exige as we know them will cease production this summer. If that weren’t enough, Lotus’s waiver to build and sell the cars in the U.S. without smart airbags expires in August. We’re also told the cars [...]
Lotus will not sell a reborn Elan (pictured above) for at least five years, a spokesperson for the company told us today. A car bearing the Elan name—a two-seat, mid-engine coupe unveiled in concept form at the 2010 Paris auto show—was originally scheduled to launch in 2013 or 2014. According to that plan, the similar [...]
There’s an awful lot going on at Lotus at the moment. So much so, that the plethora of promised new metal – Elan, Elise, Eterne, Elite and Esprit – has completely overshadowed the ongoing development of what is at risk of becoming the forgotten jewel in Hethel’s crown: the Evora. First unveiled at the 2008 [...]
In addition to pulling out no fewer than four new sports cars plus a sedan for display at the Paris auto show, Lotus tucked away this neat little city car on its stand. Called the City Car concept (a possible name for it is Ethos), the generic-looking four-place urban runabout is a range-extending electric vehicle. [...]
The survival plan for Lotus Cars LLC is nothing if not ambitious, and includes cars not normally associated with this venerable sports-car brand, including a potential city car. More shocking, however, is this Eterne, a front-engined “four-door super saloon” in Lotus-speak. It’s one of a half-dozen new cars hastily shaped under the baton of Donato [...]
It would be easy for Lotus to neglect the sublime Elise in its astonishing barrage of new products; if something’s awesome, why futz with it? But the company’s array of fresh faces (which include the Eterne, Esprit, Elan, and Elite) at the Paris show does include a major makeover for the most well-known current Lotus, [...]
For as long as most folks at Lotus Cars in Hethel, England, can remember, most everyone has eaten lunch in the office, worked eight-and-a-half hours Monday through Thursday, and then taken off the rest of the day at noon on Friday. So a weekend at Lotus works out to two-and-a-half days. In the late ’80s, [...]
With all Lotus cars, heart-pounding thrills come by way of lightness. The S 260 goes the full monty, shedding weight by using carbon fiber wherever feasible. The total weight savings add up to 60 pounds less than an Exige S, or 2000 at the curb. The supercharged, 1.8-liter Toyota four-cylinder makes 17 more horsepower than [...]
14.15 CET was the time, the Lotus Stand at the Geneva Motor Show was the place. La Roux’s ‘In For The Kill’ set the scene as the backing track for the Lotus update movie that showed the progress at the head quarters in Hethel during which Group Lotus CEO Dany Bahar reiterated the importance of [...]
Maximum fun, minimum collateral Anyone harbouring under the misapprehension that Lotus might be moving away from performance through lightweight only needs to take a quick ride in the new 1.6 Lotus Elise Club Racer to know that’s definitely not the case. The bright engineers at Lotus put even the lightest of Lotus’ modern cars on [...]