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Colin Chapman built race cars that were extraordinarily fast and occasionally fragile, under the philosophy that adding lightness was the answer to most problems. The modern Lotus is a different company in many respects, now Chinese-owned and producing electric hypercars. Cars & Code covers the whole arc — the original genius and the current reinvention.
2 articles about Lotus
Four years ago, Lotus stood up at the launch of the Emira and told the assembled press, with the slightly forced gravitas of a man at a wedding speech, that this would be its last combustion car. Ever. From here…
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In 1977, a white Lotus Esprit drove off a pier in Sardinia and became a submarine. The sequence…
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