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Tuesday, Aug 4
TOP 10 roadsters: Lotus Elise
That's why the only thing you'll find room in the car for is a pair of shades. Driving a Lotus Elise is truly pleasurable work. Please keep your comments ...
Saturday, Jun 13
Zap Alias: Electric sportsman on three legs
As was already the case with the Tesla Roadster, it is said that Lotus is involved in the development of the Alias. The Tesla Roadster is in fact produced at the Lotus plant in England but at a price of 98000 US dollars it is considerably more ...
Friday, Jun 12
UK man loses license for towing son on sled with his 4x4 - past ...
CA Lewington's demo is a sure sign that America's crazy parents aren't so different from England's crazy parents. Here's what strikes us as almost as bizarre as Lewington's behavior: with ten inches of snow on the road, what's a Lotus Elise doing out ...
Tuesday, Jun 9
First Drive: 2010 Acura TSX V6 offers more power, performance ...
CA In short: drive this car like it's a TSX with more power and better dynamics – not like it's a Lotus Elise – and you'll get a fabulously put together package that comes standard with a bucket of kit. If you want a TSX with more power, you've got that ...
Monday, Jun 8
What's in a Name? Lotus to return to Formula One
CA Rights to use the name in motorsport reportedly belong to David Hunt, younger brother of renowned F1 driver/all-around lady's man James Hunt, who took over the former Lotus F1 team in 1994. Founded by the legendary Colin Chapman, the Lotus team went on ...
The new Audi: more performance, less weight
CA something unobtanium, and that given time, VW group scale could keep the price within a single-digit percent of the current car. If Audi does manage to get the light weight, safety, and affordability equation correct, that could make them... Lotus. Audi vows to shed weight Autocar
Saturday, May 2
One Lap of America 2009 - The flag drops...
There's something for everyone here, from mainstream American performance iron (a passel of Chevrolet Corvettes and Camaros, along with a Mustang or two) to niche exotics (Ultima, Lotus Exige) to Japanese cars (including a nifty Mitsubishi Galant VR4), ...
Monday, Apr 13
Rumormill: Jaguar to build extended range-EV version of new XJ in 2011
CA Lotus Engineering and Caparo are helping Jaguar with development of the ER-EV powertrain. Additionally, Jaguar and Land Rover are rumored to be developing micro-hybrids, full parallel hybrids, smaller diesel engines, and boosted gas engines along with ...
Friday, Dec 19
Tesla responds to Top Gear's test of Roadster
Tesla Motors is crying foul on a few of the claims made by Jeremy Clarkson in his recent review of the electric Roadster. You might recall that Clarkson ran out of juice while flinging the slinky Lotus-derived Tesla around the Top Gear test track. This was the main point driven home by the TG cr...
Monday, Dec 15
VIDEO: Jezza and the Stig take on the Tesla Roadster, for 55 miles!
Jeremy Clarkson finally got his chance to thrash a Tesla Roadster on the Top Gear test track during the most recent episode and things definitely went better than his time with the G-Wiz. Clarkson pitted the Tesla against its chassis progenitor, the Lotus Elise and the results were... mixed. T...
Friday, Dec 12
Russell Datz, confirmed gearhead, to handle Fisker communications
Henrik Fisker has a dream, and an honorable one at that. "We see no reason style and performance need to be sacrificed to attain fuel efficiency and environmental responsibility," says Fisker, designer of the Aston Martin DB9, V8 Vantage, BMW Z8 and the upcoming plug-in hybrid Karma seda...
Thursday, Nov 20
LA 2008: Lotus Evora makes it to the States
The "mostly" U.S. version of the "midsize" Lotus Evora was shown today at the LA Auto Show and it looks exactly like the one that debuted at the 2008 British Motor Show back in June. It's just missing its side marker lights. The Evora follows the '70s Lamborghini Urraco, Maserati Merak, Ferrari...
Tuesday, Jul 15
First Lotus Eagle pic surfaces, along with details on the 2+2
Sales will be limited to around 2000 units per year when the Eagle hits dealers in the spring of 2009, with an approximate sticker of £45,000. A convertible version and a high-performance variant are also planned, and according to sources, the Eagle is considerably faster than the Elise a...
Friday, Jul 20
Spy Shots: 2009 Lotus Esprit will be wicked, and this way it comes
The latest info is that the engine will be a 4.8-liter V8 from BMW producing in excess of 400 bhp -- possibly with the help of some forced breathing apparatus. This time around, there will be a convertible version to go with the coupe, and word is that the car will sell for 70,000 British pounds. W...
Tuesday, Jul 17
Top 7 for 007: Rating Bond's rides
Earning top honors was the classic '64 Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger (which we also got to see in its cameo encore appearance in Casino Royale), ahead of the '75 Lotus Esprit featured in The Spy Who Loved Me. Surprisingly, the '97 BMW 750iL from Tomorrow Never Dies started from the second...
Friday, Jul 13
Inspirational Vehicle II: Big Si's Lotus Esprit
Today's feel-good story is very similar, only it took place across the Atlantic in the UK, where one Simon Pritchard was in the midst of restoring a Turbo Esprit when a series of mini-strokes put him in the hospital and his resto project in limbo. During the course of the restoration, he had j...
Thursday, Jul 12
AutoblogGreen for 07.13.07
San Jose paper says Zap might soon climb out of debt, but that doesn't make it true...It's the first date. Do you want him to show up in a Prius or a Hummer?Breaking: Ford and Lear introducing soy foam seats on 2008 MustangIndia to get one million hydrogen driven vehicles by 2020Interested in fre...
Saturday, Jun 23
2007 Goodwood Festival of Speed: The Supercars
The Goodwood Festival of Speed has given us a great chance to see some supercars and exotics that haven't been very plentiful in the States. Several soon-to-be-released models or Euro-only offerings were in the supercar paddock, and most would later be seen making the run up the hill. Even...
Sunday, Jun 10
Greenwich Concours d'Elegance - The Parking Lot
One of the fun side benefits of going to the Greenwich Concours was being able to walk through the public parking lot across the street from Roger Sherman Baldwin Park, where the the event was taking place. There's no shortage of exotica in Greenwich and in New York's Westchester County (wh...
Monday, Jun 4
EC vs WC: 2007 Los Angeles Concours d'Elegance
Sports and GT cars from Porsche, Jaguar, Lotus, Alfa Romeo, Aston Martin, Morgan, Austin Healey, Jenson, Facel, Mercedes, Renault, Lancia, Fiat, Maserati, AC, and Lamborghini lined the fairways and greens. There were plenty of Woodies and other American and European classics from th...
Saturday, May 12
Bond's submersible Lotus Esprit to hit the auction block
For many of us in our 30s, the white Lotus Esprit S1 driven by Roger Moore as James Bond in 1977's The Spy Who Loved Me represents our first exposure to Lotus and the beginning of a long love affair with the British marque. After all, the Esprit was one of the most exotic and different-looking ca...
Friday, May 11
Sydney Police get new Lotus Exige cruiser
During the early nineties, some police forces in the US used 5.0L Mustangs and Camaros as pursuit cars. In other parts of the world some cops have been fortunate enough to have access to Lamborghini Gallardos and Ferrari 612s. Now the police in Sydney Australia have a new Lotus Exige to play wi...
Tuesday, May 1
VIDEO: New M3 promo surfaces
Follow the jump to take a look at the video, and let us know if there is a better looking car in white for under $75,000 than the one you see in the spot (Lotus Exige? -Ed.).
Saturday, Apr 28
eBay Find of the Day: 1997 Lotus Elise FIA GT-1
Lotus created a GT1 version version of the Esprit, which had been racing with some success in lower classes like GT2 and the SCCA World Challenge in the US. The then twenty-year-old Esprit just couldn't cut in the big leagues, though, so the new turbocharged V-8 was moved to a new platform. Th...
Monday, Mar 26
AutoblogGreen for 03.26.07
GM trying to turn down the Chevy Volt's hypeMaximum Bob says Volt is charging aheadA concept car walks into the New York Auto Show...Is this a prototype for a new Toyota Smart competitor?Technical details of the XR3 learned during our visit to Robert Q. Riley EnterprisesTragedy at sea: Earth...
Thursday, Mar 15
Tesla sedan won't feature Ford chassis
The Roadster has garnered a lot of attention, and more importantly, a lot of orders for this tiny company. The Lotus Elise-inspired sports car has shown that you can have lots of driving fun while still being green, with a 0-60 mph time around four seconds and a top speed of 130 mph. Those lithi...
Lotus develops integrated exhaust manifold
Filed under: Geneva Motor Show, Tech, Lotus Lotus, the company that made its name on "adding lightness" and clever engineering, is at it again. This time, it's the engineering wing of the Group Lotus concern. Lotus's efforts have been directed at banishing seperate exhaust manifolds. We g...
