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Lotus Celebrates 1,000th Exige S Built, Japan is the Model’s Top Market
Lotus Celebrates 1,000th Exige S Built, Japan is the Model’s Top Market

7 Nov 2014, 10:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / British sportscar maker Lotus may be a low-volume manufacturer due to its highly-specialized products, but that self limitation is also the reason why those in the market for a no-frills all-thrills...

 
Offensive Upside Down License Plate Makes this Lotus a Troll
Offensive Upside Down License Plate Makes this Lotus a Troll

3 Nov 2014, 00:23 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Being a Lotus driver these days is hard enough. The mother ship isn't exactly okay, there are more SUVs than always to surround you at the traffic light and now there's the guy with the ca...

 
Talbot Sunbeam Lotus Hot Hatch With Just 193 Miles on the Clock Heading to Auction
Talbot Sunbeam Lotus Hot Hatch With Just 193 Miles on the Clock Heading to Auction

27 Oct 2014, 18:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you though that the original Volkswagen Golf GTI is the first hot hatchback ever, think again. That model only popularized the genre, but it didn't invent it. As a prime example of what I�...

 
IPS Automatic Transmission Now Available for the Lotus Exige S
IPS Automatic Transmission Now Available for the Lotus Exige S

24 Oct 2014, 09:57 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / You might have heard what a mess Lotus Cars is in at the present moment. Sales volume are not that great, the cars aren't aging well and there's a bit of a problem with the future of the E...

 
Lotus to Drop the Evora in the United States
Lotus to Drop the Evora in the United States

22 Sep 2014, 14:21 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Remember how Lotus told amid its F1 team sale earlier this year that car operations are going nice and smooth, with huge demand worldwide? Well, the British company might've been bluffing if yo...

 
Lotus Testing Faster Exige S at Nurburgring Amid Financial Problems
Lotus Testing Faster Exige S at Nurburgring Amid Financial Problems

21 Sep 2014, 13:18 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / There are very few automotive journalists who don’t remember the amazing concepts Lotus presented at the Paris Motor Show…. what was it, 4 years ago? The company could have become a maj...

 
Lotus Still Considering SUV, Sedan Amid Job Cuts
Lotus Still Considering SUV, Sedan Amid Job Cuts

20 Sep 2014, 05:28 UTC · By: Jeffrey Ross / About a month ago, reports indicated that Lotus could be planning to introduce an SUV and a D-segment sedan, but that was before the British sports car maker announced that it would be cutting 325 j...

 
Lotus Elise S Cup Is the Most Hardcore Elise Money Can Buy
Lotus Elise S Cup Is the Most Hardcore Elise Money Can Buy

7 Sep 2014, 09:19 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Our team of spy photographers spotted a curious-looking Elise S Cup R lapping the grueling Nurburgring last month, but Lotus didn't waste much time with this mysterious new model and announced ...

 
Lotus Mulling SUV and a Mid-Size Sedan
Lotus Mulling SUV and a Mid-Size Sedan

21 Aug 2014, 14:06 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although the British manufacturer currently focuses on the road-legal version of the Elise S Cup R, Lotus might be cooking up a couple of new models - an SUV and a D-segment sedan. Mind you, the aut...

 
Caterham Launches Seven 360 and 480 in the United States
Caterham Launches Seven 360 and 480 in the United States

13 Aug 2014, 11:43 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Caterham F1 Team might be going through a pretty tough moment, but the car building division is enjoying pretty good year-to-date sales volumes in many markets around the world. Since January, t...

 
GM-built Baojun 730 Is a Chinese Minivan with Lotus-tuned Suspension
GM-built Baojun 730 Is a Chinese Minivan with Lotus-tuned Suspension

1 Aug 2014, 15:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It may sound like a fisherman's tale, but it is for real - this box-shaped thing had its front McPherson struts and torsion beam rear suspension tuned by Lotus, the same company that makes the ...

 
Lotus Recalling Elise, Exige, Evora S Over Fire Hazard
Lotus Recalling Elise, Exige, Evora S Over Fire Hazard

8 Jul 2014, 07:42 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration informs on its website that 860 Lotus sports cars are being recalled because of a pretty dubious fault. According to the agency, the oil cooler hos...

 
Swizz Beatz Is Lotus-Nostalgic: Alicia Keys Getting a New One?
Swizz Beatz Is Lotus-Nostalgic: Alicia Keys Getting a New One?

3 Jul 2014, 08:31 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Alicia Keys’ husband, rapper and producer Hasseem Dean, better known by his stage name Swizz Beatz, recently posted a couple of images with the red Lotus he designed himself and of which only ...

 
Vote Your Favorite F1 Car Kit and Lego Will Build It For You
Vote Your Favorite F1 Car Kit and Lego Will Build It For You

24 Jun 2014, 13:31 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / One of three legendary F1 cars, Jim Clark’s ’66 Lotus, Ayrton Senna’s ’88 McLaren and Niki Lauda’s ’75 Ferrari, might become Lego kits. That is, if enough fans wi...

 
Watch a Lotus F1 Car Go Wild on London Streets
Watch a Lotus F1 Car Go Wild on London Streets

23 Jun 2014, 10:13 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / It’s hard, it’s really hard to capture the emotion a Formula One car generates and send it out for the entire world to experience. If you think outside the box though, there may be one o...

 
Carbon Fiber Lotus Exige With Audi Turbo Engine for Sale
Carbon Fiber Lotus Exige With Audi Turbo Engine for Sale

9 Jun 2014, 13:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Texas-based Hennessey Performance Engineering has taken the hypercar world by storm with their thousand horsepower creation, the Venom GT. We are talking about the unofficial fastest acceleration ca...

 
Lotus Exige S: You Shall Not Get In!
Lotus Exige S: You Shall Not Get In!

6 May 2014, 15:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / If you're looking at a magazine cover thinking the Lotus Exige S is the perfect sportscar for you… don't, just don't. The undignified way in which you enter or exit one of t...

 
Lotus Hopes Former PSA Official Will Make a Good CEO
Lotus Hopes Former PSA Official Will Make a Good CEO

2 May 2014, 15:29 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Jean-Marc Gales was today announced as being the new head of Lotus Group, in charge of the company's revival. The CEO position has been left vacant since the sacking of former big-wig Dany Baha...

 
KTM RC8R-Powered Lotus C-01 €100,000 Price Rumored
KTM RC8R-Powered Lotus C-01 €100,000 Price Rumored

24 Feb 2014, 13:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / More of a piece of motorcycle art than a real, streetable or trackable bike, the first-ever two-wheeler to bear the Lotus badge is rumored to come with a very steep price of €100,000 (more than...

 
Motorcyle XXX: More Hot Lotus C-01 Hi-Res Pictures
Motorcyle XXX: More Hot Lotus C-01 Hi-Res Pictures

20 Feb 2014, 16:06 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Here are some more high-res pictures of Lotus' first-ever motorcycle, a beast which brings together no less than three huge names in the business: Lotus, Daniel Simon and most likely, KTM. L...