Carrying on with my obsession with all things Lotus 7 comes official news about the Caterham R500 Superlight.
As is Caterham’s habit, the thing will be powered by a Ford 4 cylinder engine. In this case a 263 HP 2.0L Duratec mated to either a six-speed manual or a way cool six speed sequential box. [...]
What’s that old joke about it being a good thing that England is an island because the British are, by and large, nuts?
Well here’s example #645,643,985.
The car in question is a Dax Rush, essentially one of umpteen copies of the seldom equaled Lotus 7.
What differentiates this particular Dax Rush from all the others is it’s [...]
OK, by now it should be readily apparent that this is my kind of a car. I LOVE light-weight, bare-bones, handling-above-all-else sports cars. Lotus 7s, Miatas, MR2s, Elises, Ferrari Dino 206S,those are my kind of rides. If I could figure out how to get a Formula Ford licensed for street use, I’d do it [...]
At first, I just shook my head, not sure if this was a good thing at all … but then that passed, I came to my senses, and thought, “Yes. Yes, this is a very good thing.”
The short version is this. There’s these guys, RS Performance, who are obviously mad as hatters. A while back [...]
Following up on Chris’s post from Wednesday about whether a hybrid can be a performance car (I say yes, there’s no reason why they couldn’t be). I have a modest proposal:
Take a Caterham 7 chassis (see picture above), no drivetrain needed, just the differential.
Bolt an electric motor directly to the diff. Don’t mess around, get [...]
Lotus is celebrating their 40th Anniversary of production by releasing a limited edition, Europe-only version of the Elise S. They will only release 50 of these cars in total, distributing most of them to Germany and Switzerland.
Each one of the cars will be coated with a cool-looking burnt orange paint, with color-matching calipers, interior trim, [...]
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