#Lotus sports car

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News: Lotus Eletre first UK customer drives take place

Exciting times down at Lotus as they have just shared with MotorMartin details regarding the first ever UK test drives for their all new Lotus Eletre at the Goodwood Motor Circuit recently. Potential customers were able to experience the hyper-SUV’s exceptional performance and immersive digital cockpit, as part of a new electric vehicle experience staged in conjunction with the Festival of…

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Lotus Elan S3, 1966. The Elan was an era-defining car and was for Lotus, their first really commercially successful road car. It featured a steel backbone chassis with a fibreglass body and was powered by a DOHC 1,558 cc engine, with 4-wheel disc brakes, rack and pinion steering and 4-wheel independent suspension. Sales were boosted in the UK and internationally when the character Emma Peel (played by Diana Ring) drove one in 60’s TV series The Avengers. It provided the template for the Mazda MX-5 Miata. In 2004, Sports Car International placed the Elan number 6 in a list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s. 

PS: Diana Rigg had to learn to drive for the TV show, Lotus gave her the car when she left The Avengers, but she wasn't a keen driver and passed the Elan onto a friend. More recently Dame Diana played the role of Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones, she passed away in 2020, aged 82. R.I.P

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Happy Taillight Tuesday!

My desire for an S2 Elise grows every day…

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Lotus "Theory I" Concept

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it's my birthday so the butchfemme situationship from hell is back!!1!1! enjoy chapter two 𓆣

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Lotus Exige at Waukesha Cars & Coffee (2024) - Meet 1 in Waukesha, WI.

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Lotus Emira

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What's your favorite 1990s coupe or sports car? (not exclusive to those pictured)

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Lotus Exige 460

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1989 Lotus Esprit SE from Pretty Woman (1990)

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Autodynamics Hustler, 1967. Autodynamics was formed by Ray Caldwell in the early 1960’s as a racing car maker. They also diversified into making replacement fibreglass body panels for the Lotus Elan. At the New York Auto Show they revealed the Hustler, an Elan replica (it was larger than the diminutive Lotus) based on a VW chassis and rear engine. The business was doing well with Formula Vee and the VW-based ‘Deserter’ dune-buggy so the Hustler was really a side-project and less than 50 were made before production ended in 1968.

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1955 Lotus IX, S/N 089

This Lotus IX, one of approximately twenty five built and the eighty ninth Lotus built overall, was delivered to Len Bastrup of Wilton, CT during June 1955. Over the next five years Bastrup had substantial success with the car even as it was later succeeded by new models.

For its first race Bastrup took the car to the SCCA National at Beverly Farms, MA and won two events over the weekend. For its second race weekend Bastrup brought the car to Thompson for the first time to compete in the Labor Day SCCA National. Bastrup again finished first and broke the existing class lap record by an impressive two seconds. Over the next four year the car had approximately thirty outings with roughly half of these at THompson. During this period, it also won races at Watkins Glen, Montgomery and Lime Rock Part including a victory on the opening day at Lime Rock in 1957. While the car won a number of races at Thompson, including its last race in Bastrup's hands in 1959, not every day was a success. While running near the front at the 1956 National Bastrup rolled the car in the downhill section. The damage was not too severe and they were back a month later to achieve a second in class. Source: A sign at Thompson Motor Speedway, June 2014.

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1957 Lotus 12, chassis number 353 !

Image via Bonhams