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Lotus’ Evora Sport 410 GP Edition will make you feel like Mario Andretti
Lotus has been absent from the Formula One grid since 2015, and recent performances by teams bearing the Lotus name make it easy to forget the British automaker was once one of the sport’s greats. Now, Lotus is trying to remind people of that. The Lotus Evora Sport 410 GP Edition is a special-edition model […]
The black and gold Lotus Evora Sport 410 GP Edition is heading to America
Few race teams have such deeply iconic liveries as Team Lotus. From the Gold Leaf cars from the late 1960s to the bright yellow Camel cars that lasted until the early 1990s, arguably none is more iconic than the John Player Special cars that brought world championships to Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti. Now that […]
Lotus Elise Sprint: Because You Can Always Go a Little Lighter
– The most revolutionary thing about the Lotus Elise Sprint is its dashboard, which functions in the year 2017 with but a single dot-matrix readout under the tachometer. That’s as refreshingly old-school as any brand-new sports car can possibly get. – By Lotus standards, backlit color screens and multicore processors are not only heavy, they aren’t worth […]
Lotus Elise Sprint: Because You Can Always Go a Little Lighter
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Lotus Elise Sprint adds lightness to lightness
Lotus announced the introduction of a new Elise trim level that exemplifies founder Colin Chapman’s famous phrase of “simplify and add lightness.” The new Elise Sprint combines the weight savings of the current standard Elise, along with a number of Sprint-exclusive parts for what Lotus claims is the model’s most significant weight loss yet of […]
Esprit de Car: This Lotus Evora Sport 410 Nods to Iconic James Bond Esprit
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Esprit de Car: This Lotus Evora Sport 410 Nods to Iconic James Bond Esprit
– The James Bond film franchise has featured innumerable vehicles across its many installments, but few have been as memorable as the Lotus Esprit S1 that famously launched off a pier straight into the open sea in The Spy Who Loved Me. The car/submarine remains one of the most iconic movie vehicles ever, and Lotus is honoring the 40th anniversary of […]
This Lotus Evora 410 is a custom tribute to the original Esprit
We love the Lotus Evora, whether it’s in the current 400 trim or new 410 trim, and now an enthusiast has ordered up perhaps the coolest livery. It’s an Evora 410 in an Esprit tribute scheme. And it isn’t modeled after just any first-generation Esprit, but rather the car featured in the James Bond flick, […]
