Group Lotus hires new Director of Motorsport
Group Lotus's new motorsports ambitions will be spearheaded by its newly appointed Director of Motorsport Claudio Berro, who will report directly to CEO Dany Bahar. Both Berro and his boss Bahar are …
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Lotus Engineering’s new Versatile Vehicle Architecture – a technical presentation
Lotus Engineering is currently pushing its Versatile Vehicle Architecture to any manufacturer that wants to license it as a base platform for future cars. The Lotus Evora is the first production car …
Lotus Exige Stealth makes debut at Tokyo 2009
The only recently unveiled Lotus Exige Scura was at the Tokyo Motorshow 2009 with the name Exige Stealth, which will be its name for the Japanese market. The Lotus stand was one …
Lotus eyeing Indy car series, GT and Le Mans
Lotus' newly appointed CEO Dany Bahar who used to serve for Ferrari revealed that he plans to bring Lotus back into the high-octane world of motorsport. "Lotus will return to motorsport. I …
Lotus Exige Scura: 35 unit limited edition with matte black paint goes 0-100km/h in 4.1s
A new limited edition Lotus Exige has just been announced - the new Lotus Exige Scura. Scura means 'dark' in Italian and the pillar of the whole 'indulge your dark side' theme …
New Lotus Evora Type 124 Endurance Racecar will race at the MME in Sepang next year
I think for Malaysians at least, Lotus and endurance races seem to go together, thanks to the Lotus cars run by Proton and Empire Motorsports in the MME endurance race. Maybe Proton …
Lotus Engineering to showcase 1.2 liter 3 cylinder range extender engine at Frankfurt
Lotus will be showcasing its very own "range extender" powertrain at the Frankfurt motorshow this month. If you know how the Chevrolet Volt works you'll basically have a gist about what range …
New Lotus CEO: Ferrari man Dany Bahar
Proton's Group Lotus now has a new CEO - Dany Bahar, a Swiss national. Some of you may notice his face is quite familiar, in fact he appeared most recently on this …
Lotus considering to produce a new Esprit?
British-based sports car maker Lotus, is rumored to resurrect the Esprit sports car, which was first produced back in 1976 and starred in the 1977 Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me …
Lotus not happy about Litespeed’s “Team Lotus” Formula One 2010 entry
F3 team Litespeed will be participating in the Formula One along with a few other new teams like Campos Racing, Lola, Prodrive (future Aston Martin) and USGPE for the 2010 season. But …
All-electric Lotus Exige by Ecotricity
Ecotricity is a British-based wind energy company and to help promote the usage of electric vehicles in the U.K, the company initiated the development process to produce an all electric Lotus Exige …
Geneva 2009: Lotus Evora Launch Edition
Proton-owned and British-based sports car maker Lotus has launched the Lotus Evora Launch Edition at the Geneva Motor Show. The Launch Edition is sort of a “market testing” variant where only 450 …
Geneva 2009: The new Lotus Exige S Facelift
Proton-owned British-based sports car maker Lotus has launched the 2010 Lotus Exige S at the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland. Design wise, the Exige S received a face lift with a slightly …
Supercharged Lotus Evora with 350hp in the works
Thanks to Lotus, we now know Toyota's 3.5 litre V6 can be forced inducted to a nice 350hp and 400Nm of torque without any modifications, as a source in Lotus discovered during …
Lotus Sport 2-Eleven GT4 Supersport race car
Lotus Sport 2-Eleven GT4 Supersport race car is a race-prepped version of the Lotus 2-Eleven designed to comply with the rules of the European SRO GT4 Supersports category.
Honda Civic Hybrid: base for a rally car?
Energy-efficient vehicle design specialists Oaktec have been working on Honda's IMA hybrid system for motorsports usage since 2004.
2-Stroke Lotus OMNIVORE research engine project
Lotus Engineering is currently developing an engine concept called the OMNIVORE together with the Queen's University Belfast and Jaguar Cars Ltd. The OMNIVORE research engine features a variable compression ratio, direct injection …
Lotus Sound Synthesis technology can give electric cars the rumble of a V8
Lotus used a Toyota Prius as a demonstrator vehicle and applied its new Sound Synthesis system to it.
Lotus EVE Hybrid at the Proton Technology Week
Click for hi-res photo Proton brought in the Lotus EVE Hybrid for its Proton Technology Week this weekend, and all journalists got to see was Pak Lah driving it really slowly, parking …
A Lotus Elise that drives itself!
I had expected to see a blue 200 DARPA Urban Challenge Lotus Elise covered with sensor equipment but the autonomous Lotus Elise that is on display at the Proton Technology week had …
