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On Monday, we presented this week’s shifter and asked you to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence it came. A few of you figured out that this week’s shifter belongs to a Lotus Europa, but the first commenter to correctly specify it as a 1972 model was repeat winner Jake S.
The Europa pictured here is from our photo archives, but we reviewed one in our May 1968 issue. Despite its exotic looks and fine driving manners, the Lotus failed to impress long-time editor David E. Davis, Jr. This…
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Remember TTAC’s Future Writers Week? You chose the writers. The writers wrote. The stories are in (well, most of them …). Here is the first one. Do you like it? Tell us. The stories will be published in the sequence in which they arrived in TTAC’s mailbox.
I thought I was hard-core. People who complain about the Lotus Elise’s lack of creature comforts or suspension compliance are wimps I thought. Many of us would agree that pure driving pleasure outweighs most other considerations. The Elise i…
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Lotus F1 Team will unleash its 2013 car, the E21, on track at the first day of pre-season Formula 1 testing at the Jerez circuit in Spain, Tuesday February 5th.
The 2013 Lotus F1 Team E21Photo by: Lotus F1 Team
Using a development version of the E21, the team will be focused primarily on shakedown installation, reliability and aerodynamic assessment.
Romain Grosjean will drive on Tuesday and Wednesday with Kimi Räikkönen taking the wheel for Thursday and Friday.
Both drivers, Team Principal Eric Boul…
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Jan.8 (GMM) Romain Grosjean has dropped a big hint about Lotus’ 2013 plans, revealing the new Enstone-built single seater will be launched late this month.Speaking to the French sports news programme Stade 2, the Frenchman also revealed that he and continuing Lotus teammate Kimi Raikkonen will equally share the twelve days of pre-season testing in February.”The next few weeks for me will be intense training, with the presentation of the new car at the end of the month,” said Grosjean.”Then I will have si…
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It’s an interesting concept that the owner of this 1968 Lotus Super Seven for sale on Hemmings.com had: Finish it out as a luxury Seven – however luxurious one could make a Seven, that is. From the photos, he appears to have done a good job, and anybody wanting to follow Colin Chapman’s “add lightness” mantra could easily undo the changes. From the seller’s description:
This well sorted 1968 Lotus Seven S3, SB2366 has Approx. 44000 miles, 1600 crossflow Ford w/ Ford T…
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There’s a new way for European customer to order their Lotus Evora sports car, the new Sports Race package. Lotus describes the Sports Racer as “fully loaded” because almost every possible option is fitted as standard. The Sports Racer treatment is available for both versions of the Lotus Evora: the normal model, which uses a 3.5-liter V-6 with 376 hp, as well as the Evora S, which has a supercharged 3.5-liter V-6 with 345 hp. There are, however, restrictions on color choices: only white, gray…
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Dec.10 (GMM) F1 team Lotus is reportedly close to announcing a multi-million dollar title sponsorship deal with Honeywell, the American technology giant.”It is thought the framework of the agreement is in place and a formal announcement pending,” said Sportspro journalist David Cushnan on Monday.The news follows Lotus’ recent signing of a sponsor deal with Burn, the European energy drink label of the American beverage giant Coca-Cola.After a five year absence, the United States returned to the F1 calenda…
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Nov.29 (GMM) Kamui Kobayashi has entered the frame as a potential replacement for Romain Grosjean at Lotus, Finland’s Turun Sanomat newspaper reports.Earlier, the Finnish source MTV3 said Heikki Kovalainen – at risk of losing his Caterham seat – was now a candidate for Lotus, as the Enstone based team considers whether to keep Frenchman Grosjean on board.Grosjean enjoys the support of team boss Eric Boullier and also the team’s important French backer Total, but it is believed the 26-year-old tumultuous …
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An exciting inaugural qualifying session at the Circuit of the Americas saw Romain Grosjean set the fourth-fastest time with Kimi Räikkönen right behind him in fifth.
A gearbox change for Romain will see him start from ninth on the grid for tomorrow’s United States Grand Prix ; with Kimi inheriting fourth position as a result of his team-mate’s penalty.
Kimi Raikkonen, Lotus F1 TeamPhoto by: Rainier Ehrhardt
Kimi Räikkönen (E20-05. Q : P5, 1:36.708. (Starts P4) FP3 : P13, 1:37.765): “I was ac…
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To celebrate 50 years of James Bond, Top Gear has produced a special episode (temporarily available for viewing here) that honors the various Bond rides over the years. The hour-long episode also features interviews with James Bonds Daniel Craig and Roger Moore, and is topped off by a test drive of a Top Gear-built Lotus submarine.
No, it’s not the same Lotus Esprit-turned-submersible that starred in The Spy Who Loved Me; instead, the Top Gear crew converted a Lotus Excel, oddly fitted with wheels f…
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