Ritch of Switzerland sent in these beautiful photos of his Carbon Grey over Oyster interior Lotus Evora. Stunning!
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Lotus Cars Limited is delighted to sponsor the Bob Champion 60:60 Challenge and support both the Injured Jockeys Fund and the Bob Champion Cancer Trust in their fund raising pursuits.
Roger Becker Lotus’ Director of Vehicle Engineering is retiring from Group Lotus after a long career of 44 years. Roger, 64, joined Lotus in 1966, working on the Elan assembly line at Cheshunt, but his natural driving and engineering skills came to the attention of Lotus founder Colin Chapman and Roger was quickly moved to the vehicle development team where he worked directly with Mike Kimberley (former Lotus CEO) on the Lotus Europa Twin Cam – his first Lotus car development project.
Referring to Lotus’s plans to produce the next Lotus Elise and Exige, the statement from Tesla said, “we do not plan to sell our current generation Tesla Roadster after 2011 due to planned tooling changes at a supplier for the Tesla Roadster”. Most assembly of the Roadster is carried out by the Lotus factory in Hethel. Final assembly for U.S.-bound cars then takes place at a facility in Menlo Park, California. For European deliveries, the full vehicle is assembled on-line at the Lotus facility and pre-delivery inspection occurs at a nearby Tesla facility in Wymondham, England.
Pricing for the Evora 2+0 and 2+2 begin at R 899,000 and R 929,000. Below is the Lotus Evora technical specifications PDF distributed among the press attending the South African Lotus Evora press launch. The South African Press Launch of the new Lotus Evora is currently taking place at Top Gear Live in South Africa. Below is the Lotus Evora presentation shown to the press in South Africa:
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman, an engineer by profession and a keen racing driver, built his first racing car in 1948 and Lotus as a company came into existence in 1952 when Chapman formed the Lotus Engineering Company. In 1957, along came the Lotus Elite Type 14 and the Lotus Seven (later the Super Seven) and Chapman’s cars were considered the most stylish on the road and some of the most impressive on the race track. In 1958, he took Lotus into Formula 1 with the single seater Lotus Type 12, and after refining the model, produced the Lotus Type 18 which, driven by Stirling Moss, won the Monaco Grand Prix in 1960. A mere two years later, Chapman unveils the Lotus Elan – a sportscar by which all others come to be judged. The Elan enjoys an unrivalled 11yr production run and to this day remains one of the most innovative sportscars ever produced. In the same year, Chapman also introduced the Lotus Type 25 into Formula 1. With the legendary Jim Clark behind the wheel, the car won four Grand Prix and Lotus only missed winning the constructors’ championship by a single point. The following year Lotus won that title and Clark, still in the Type 25, won the driver’s championship – a double that is repeated again in 1965.
F1 driver Heikki Kovalainen visits the home of Lotus Cars to meet the Lotus family and choose the scheme for his personalised Lotus Evora. It was a real thrill for the Lotus workforce to see Lotus F1 Racing Driver Heikki as he was given a personal tour of the production facilities yesterday, and even more exciting for those few employees who got a rare chance to be driven by the F1 star as he tested the Lotus Evora on Lotus’ own test track for the first time.
Lotus Racing today confirmed that the long awaited launch of the 2010 Lotus Formula 1 racing car will take place on the 12th of February in central London. The Royal Horticultural Hall has been selected by the team as the perfect venue to unveil one of the sporting world’s most eagerly anticipated new challengers and an audience of 400 guests, including all staff of the newly formed team, will be the first to see the livery of the new Lotus Racing car. |
 
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