Lotus News

Fancy taking a Lotus Elise SC for a spin? Well, if you're either a permanent resident or planning to visit Italy as a tourist, you'll be happy to know that Lotus has announced a new agreement with the car hire company Hertz Italiana to supply a bunch of yellow Elise SC for its rental business in Italy.

A LOTUS Turbo Esprit from the James Bond blockbuster For Your Eyes Only has been tipped to fetch up to 120,000 when it goes up for auction later this month.

BRITAIN'S favourite little roadster is turning 20 and some of the originals are still clocking up the miles.

Slatterz writes "The Tesla Roadster has almost mythical status among electric car enthusiasts.

While Lotus is certainly known for its minimalist philosophy of design, it is also increasingly known for the incredible multitude of special-edition models offered.

WILLIAMSON Park will welcome members of the Roses Run Vintage Car Rally this Sunday .

A MEGA Kids Club fundraiser, featuring a host of supercars, has raised well over A 1,000 according to organisers.

US electric car maker Tesla has confirmed that it will make a right-hand drive version of its Roadster model, due in early 2010.

Lotus Cars USA, the North American distributor of the British sports cars, will be the title sponsor of the Lotus Challenge series, now in its second year.

Based on the stultifying Chrysler/Talbot Sunbeam, Colin Chapman's mob in Hethel, Norfolk fitted their race-bred, 2.2-litre engine as well as new suspension and created the world's first really hot hatchback.

Once again, the federal government is handing billions of dollars to auto companies.

One of my favorite tags on Jalopnik.com is Down on the Street , wherein oddball and exotic cars are documented at the curb.

At a recent press event, we drove the only pure-electric road-ready automobile currently on sale in the United States.

A shiny orange piece of what might be America's automotive future, a Tesla Roadster, is silently prowling the streets of Fairlawn and surrounding areas.

BOB ENGLISH Thursday, Jun. 18, 2009 03:51AM EDT A lmost half a century after having his doors blown off by some of the best names in the business during the 1962 Players 200, veteran Canadian racer Jack Boxstrom will find himself on the grid at Mosport this weekend waiting for the checkered flag to fall, once again strapped into the cockpit of the ...

Jamaica's economy is getting a boost from the spin-off of locally staged motorsport events.

Colin Chapman's Lotus car company created the Elan in 1966. It was a minimalist roadster bereft of any comfort with the singular purpose: to provide the most scintillating driving experience.

Saturn is one of the companies GM dropped recently before going bankrupt altogether.

F1: One New Entry Already Out ? The Lotus Cars company has followed the Brabham family in distancing itself and threatening legal action against a proposed formula one team bearing its name.

At my feet, on a workshop floor crowded with tools and lubricants cans and subassemblies in various states of repair, stands a skinny tire, from which delicate arms of aluminum reach out to a long, low tube painted British Racing Green with a yellow central stripe.