Thirty years since the last Melkus RS 1000 left the production line, Melkus has unveiled an official successor with a little help from Lotus. The new RS 2000 is based on the Lotus Exige and fitted with a 270 hp variant of the Toyota four-cylinder engine.
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Specialty Car Craft of Southern California have created this wild widebody Lotus Exige, dubbed ‘KING KONG’. The twincharged Lotus — yes, it’s fitted with BOTH a supercharger AND a turbocharger — puts down more than 500 hp. The car is painted Grigio Medio, a color nabbed from the Ferrari 599 GTB. Videos and more photos [...] John Hennessey sent Autoblog.com four CFD (computational fluid dynamics) renderings of his upcoming Lotus Exige-based Venom GT supercar. As we reported last month, Hennessey’s supercar is expected to debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Two years ago, infamous tuner John Hennessey announced plans to produce his own supercar named the Venom GT. According to information released today by Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE), the finished car will make its debut at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. UPDATE: Press release now added As you can see in these official renderings from [...] Sector111 has uploaded the first of a planned series of podcasts. Click here to listen to the podcast. In the podcast, Sector111 catches up with Jim Navarro, the President of the Lotus Challenge Series, while alongside the track at the fifth LCS round held at Laguna Seca. |
 
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