Carbon Fiber Lotus Elise
Some crazy rich guy (named Jimmy, apparently) wasn’t happy with the scale-busting weight of his Lotus Elise, so he gave it to some tuners in Hong Kong to fabricate a new one – completely out of carbon fiber! Ok, it’s not all made from carbon, but it’s damn close.
As expected, the whole [...]
This is just too good to pass up and not mention, Lotus makers of all things light and tossable, have already announced a variant for their upcoming, but not-out-to-the-public Evora 2+2.
Boasting an output of at least 350 horsepower, the Evora variant will use the same 3.5L Toyota-sourced V6 as the base model, only with a [...]
I just about lost it when I came across this poking around on Craig’s List last night.
Here’s the entirety of the guys entry:
“Mid 1960’s, world’s first race car simulator. ‘based around an actual Lotus 31 Formula 3 car…made from standard manufacturing parts’
Featured in the Dead Man’s Treasure episode of The Avengers in 1967, this one [...]
Ah, another car for the Euros, and, sadly, not for us here in the U. S. of A. … and for a lot of Euros too.
The car you see here is the Jim Clark edition of the Lotus Elise. Loaded with tons of old style goodies – as well as a 218 HP supercharged engine. [...]
Long rumored and spy-photoed, the Lotus “Eagle” has just debuted at the British Motor Show in London and it’s official name has been revealed: Evora. The official name is quite nice, keeps the with long running E-names for Lotus cars, and (as a bonus for me) is also the name of a nice little town [...]
Enzo Ferrari said that “An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
And so, that seems to still be holding true for Lotus, one of histories greatest car companies, founded by one of histories greatest automotive and racing engineers, Colin Chapman.
Chapman’s C/V is littered with innovations, any one of which most engineers would be happy [...]
Ah, good old Lotus, always trying to push the boundaries of engineering and, occasionally, other things too.
Lotus has, for the sake of the environment, chosen to make a show car variant of the (almost) too-good-to-be-true Elise. in this case it is called the Eco Elise Concept (they need to bulk up the talent in the [...]
Oh, you gotta love this .
Look, Lotus Esprits are very very capable cars, some of them are frighteningly quick.
There are also, however, somewhat, how can I put this delicately, fragile and temperamental.
Now, I have a friend, Rory, who disputes this. He’s owned 4 or 5 Lotus Esprits, and he says they’re perfectly reasonable and dependable [...]
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