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...black and gold Lotus Type 72. Team Lotus wins the F1 Constructors’ World Championship. The Lotus Esprit Ital Design concept is shown for the first time. 1973 Team Lotus wins the F1 Constructors’ World...
The Seventh Day of the Seventh Month: Lotus marks 'The Spy Who Loved Me' Day
...McLauchlan speaking in 2003 and recalling the product placement coup of the 1970s, when a white Lotus Esprit became the leading car in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.The film’s Royal...
Lotus Esprit
Launched in 1976, the Lotus Esprit is one of the brand’s most iconic models, thanks in part to its starring role in the James Bond film of the following year, The Spy Who Loved Me. Even now, more than...
Lotus launches new Certificate of Provenance programme by honouring Colin Chapman’s last car – newly acquired by Lotus
...owners worldwide • First recipient is a stunning 1981 Turbo Esprit, authenticated as Lotus founder Colin Chapman’s last ‘company car’ ...
Lotus Engineering: The Innovators #2 – six generations of precision control
...four key pillars of Lotus Engineering Lotus-developed engine control unit (ECU) debuted on legendary Esprit V8 engine 26 years of Lotus ECU development means sixth-generation unit is part of Emira tech...
Design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro visits Hethel
...of Giorgetto Giugiaro’s pioneering designs – and also best-known – is the Lotus Esprit. He originally penned it as a concept for the Turin Motor Show in 1972, was launched as a production...
Lotus Anniversaries in 2021
...Roger Moore as the British secret agent. A Cold War thriller, the action sees Bond drive a Turbo Esprit, compete with twin ski racks on the roof, around Cortina d’Ampezzo in the Italian Dolomites...
Lotus Emira: delivering exotic supercar appeal in the sports car segment
...development of the interior Lotus CV highlights: 2000 – Lotus Exige Mk I2002 – Lotus Esprit facelift (lead exterior designer)2006 – Lotus 2-Eleven (lead exterior and interior designer)2016...
Oliver Winterbottom: 24 February 1944 to 6 November 2020
...also leading the design team initially – at Hethel and in Turin – to productionise the iconic Lotus Esprit. But this work just scratches the surface of his achievements. To find out more, Oliver wrote...
Andy the Archivist
...is part of Andy’s job, and the car which received the first certificate – a 1981 Turbo Esprit used by Lotus founder Colin Chapman – is a great example of how the Lotus archive can validate...
