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Lotus announce Elise 20th Anniversary and Exige S Club Racer

  Lotus have announced a pair of new model derivatives this week, with the Elise 20th Anniversary special edition and the Exige S Club Racer. The Elise 20th Anniversary special edition celebrates 20 years since the Elise was first unveiled … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – The all new Lotus Evora 400

Lotus this morning announced the Lotus Evora 400 ahead of its showing next month at the Geneva Motor Show. This heavily revised car brings a huge number of visual and mechanical changes, and replaces the Evora and Evora S as … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – Lotus sales up 54% world-wide for the first nine months of the financial year

News from Lotus that sales have continue to improve world-wide, with new announcements planned for Geneva Motor Show in March. Source: Lotus sales up 54% world-wide for the first nine months of the financial year Discussion: SELOC Chat »Outlook looking … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – New Chief Engineer, Vehicle Test and Development for Lotus

Lotus today announced that Dave Marler has been appointed Chief Engineer, Vehicle Test and Development for the companies cars. Marler will certainly have some large shoes to fill – replacing Matthew Becker who is leaving Lotus after 26 years at … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – Lotus Cars Celebrates 1000th Exige S

Lotus announced last week that they had built their 1000th Exige V6, with this milestone car destined for the Lotus Test and Development team for sign off of the new automatic gearbox option. Source: Lotus Cars – Lotus Cars Celebrates … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – Lotus Expands Exige Product Range with Introduction of Exige S Automatic

Following it being spotted recently testing at the Nurburgring, Lotus have today announced the latest addition to the Exige range – the Exige S Automatic. Although specs haven’t yet been given the Exige S Automatic likely shares its drivetrain with … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – Russell Carr appointed Head of Design for Lotus

News today that Lotus Head of Design, Donato Coco, will be leaving the company at the end of October, to be replaced by Evora designer and 24-year Lotus veteran Russell Carr. Discussion: SELOC Chat » Russell Carr appointed Head of … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – The Lotus Elise S Cup, a road-going variant of the Elise S Cup R completes testing.

Following on from it being spotted undergoing testing at the Nurburgring recently, Lotus have announced the road going version of the Elise S Cup R racer – the Elise S Cup. You can find the full press release below… Discussion: … Continue reading

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Evora, Exige and Elise prototypes spotted in the wild

Whilst news of new model variants has been fairly quiet of late signs are emerging of revisions being made across the Lotus model range. Evora First up, a camouflaged Evora was posted recently testing on the continent on AutoJunk.nl. Little … Continue reading

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Lotus Cars – Lotus Delivers Best June Results in 4 years and Best First Quarter Sales in 3 years

Positive news from Lotus this week, with the company announcing their best June and First quarter international sales figures in a number of years. Today, Group Lotus plc is pleased to announce a 31% rise in global sports car sales … Continue reading

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