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  Lotus announces the Evora Cup racer and one-make series

  14 January 2010 / 23 comments

  Lotus has officially announced that it will reveal the Evora Cup race car at the Autosport International racing car show in Birmingham, UK later today. The race car is developed based on the FIA GT4 […]

   

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  Lotus F1 to make testing debut in Jerez next month

  8 January 2010 / 18 comments

  Here are some updates on the Lotus F1 Team. The Malaysian-backed outfit will join the final two F1 test sessions before the 2010 season starts in Bahrain. The race car is set to be driven […]

   

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  Lotus files patent for twin clutch transmission

  8 January 2010 / 18 comments

  It seems that Lotus has filed a patent for their own twin clutch transmission design on the 30th of December 2009. The Applicant is listed as Lotus Cars GB and the ‘inventor’ is a certain […]

   

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  “What we didn’t want to do was take on new drivers” – Lotus F1’s Mike Gascoyne reveals all!

  26 December 2009 / 29 comments

  There are many of us who hunger for more insight into the Lotus F1 Team, after all this is a team billed as “1Malaysia” which means that we have a stake in it. But good […]

   

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  Lotus Exige S Type 72 launched – are they celebrating a return to Formula 1?

  24 December 2009 / 33 comments

  Is Lotus finally accepting the Litespeed run/Malaysian backed Lotus F1 Team as their own? It would seem so because Hethel has chose now to launch the Exige S Type 72, named after the Lotus Type […]

   

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  Airline war on the F1 grid – AirAsia passengers might get Richard Branson as stewardess!

  17 December 2009 / 58 comments

  Yes you read right! Sir Richard Branson of Virgin fame could be serving AirAsia passengers in a stewardess uniform – but only if Lotus F1 beats Virgin Racing in the battle of the newcomers. Lotus […]

   

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  Kovalainen to drive Neo S2000 in Arctic Rally?

  17 December 2009 / 27 comments

  Remember when we reported that Heikki looked really interested in the Satria Neo S2000 when he visited Proton’s Centre of Excellence? Now, Autosport says that the Lotus F1 driver has been linked to drive the […]

   

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  Lotus appoints ex-Ferrari man as head of design

  16 December 2009 / 41 comments

  Lotus has announced the appointment of Donato Coco as the Group’s Director of Design. In this newly created position, Mr Coco will lead all design activities for Lotus Cars and Lotus Engineering. He will assume […]

   

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  Gallery: Lotus F1 drivers in Malaysia

  15 December 2009 / 68 comments

  I just got back from Proton’s Centre of Excellence (COE) in Shah Alam, where newly named Lotus F1 drivers Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen paid a short visit to. They came, had a closed door […]

   

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  Lotus Cars to buy into F1 team in the future

  15 December 2009 / 44 comments

  As reported in our earlier post, the new Lotus F1 team which announced its driver line-up yesterday has not much to do with Lotus Cars the manufacturer. The F1 team is actually managed by Litespeed, […]

   

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  Lotus F1 reveals driver line-up – it’s Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen!

  14 December 2009 / 131 comments

  After the long wait, Team Lotus F1 (or 1Malaysia F1 Team, as many Malaysians know it as) has finally announced its official driver lineup: Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen will race for the Malaysian backed […]

   

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  Lotus Omnivore 2-stroke HCCI engine – details

  10 December 2009 / 19 comments

  Click for enlarged image You remember the Lotus Omnivore project don’t you? We first heard word of this project back in August 2008 and Lotus exhibited a concept engine at the Geneva show earlier this […]

   

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  Group Lotus hires new Director of Motorsport

  28 October 2009 / 13 comments

  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 ex-Ferrari men. Berro […]

   

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  Lotus Engineering’s new Versatile Vehicle Architecture – a technical presentation

  26 October 2009 / 34 comments

  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 to debut based […]

   

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  Lotus Exige Stealth makes debut at Tokyo 2009

  23 October 2009 / 21 comments

  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 of the very […]

   

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