Lotus has had a hand in many different cars over the years, but it also helped to develop the handling on an unknown Malaysian hot hatch in the 1990s.
Colin Chapman's son ... However, this Lotus was important for a second reason. The inner chassis was F1's first carbon fiber monocoque. The lightweight material is common in racing and performance ...
In the mid-1970s, when Andretti joined Team Lotus, Colin Chapman was busy with side ventures ... 5000 scene and decided to ...
Colin Chapman's legacy is a great one ... a situation that was further complicated when Lotus itself got into the sport by buying into the Renault F1 team. Now it appears that the Malaysian ...
One name from that period which embodies both Formula One and kit cars is Lotus. Its founder, [Colin Chapman], produced a succession of racing specials from the late 1940s through to the early ...
Before the early 2010s split between two privately-owned Formula 1 teams claiming to be the real Lotus, there was just one ...
The simplest passenger car the company ever built was the Lotus Seven, originating in the 1950s as an open-top two-seater. It ...
We recently spent a few days behind the wheel of the Lotus Emira First Edition I4 in the UK, and the experience wasn't as ...
Lotus will use its ... insisting that if founder Colin Chapman was still around he would undoubtedly have embraced electrification. “Look at history, look at F1,” he told us.
BBC star, Colin Chapman, has died aged 87. The journalist, who worked for the BBC, as well as stints at the Sunday Times, Financial Times, the New York Times and ABC, is reported to have passed ...