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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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  Lotus eyeing Indy car series, GT and Le Mans

  20 October 2009 / 32 comments

  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 believe that this […]

   

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  Lotus Exige Scura: 35 unit limited edition with matte black paint goes 0-100km/h in 4.1s

  19 October 2009 / 67 comments

  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 used as the […]

   

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  New Lotus Evora Type 124 Endurance Racecar will race at the MME in Sepang next year

  13 September 2009 / 28 comments

  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 will be running […]

   

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