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An accountant by profession, Peter Kirwan-Taylor was best known for the design of the Lotus Type 14 Elite (1957 to 1962) – the ground-breaking composite monocoque sports and racing car that not only put Lotus on the global stage but also won at Le Mans. In addition Peter contributed to the design of the Lotus Elan, the Lotus 18 single seater race car and the Type 23 and with the running of the Lotus business in the 1950s and 1960s.

Following two years of planning and development, German car-racing team Kodewa has announced that the prototype of the world's first motorcycle to bear the Lotus marque is now road registered and ready for action.

Lotus F1 Team Technical Director, Nick Chester, reveals how the E22 is coming along, and exactly what the team is thinking while looking at the other cars as they roll out for the first time this season.

Lotus Cars dealer and Lotus Cup Italia organiser PB Racing launch the 2014 Lotus Cup Italia season this weekend at the prestigious MotorCircus event in Brescia, Italy.

The Evora S would turn out to be the most pleasurable car I’d ever driven. Plenty would happen in the 48 hours the car was in my possession to create that close bond that I crave, a gamut of emotions and conditions that are things that a love of cars is made of. It would also prove just what a sublime car the Evora S is to drive, and how often preconceptions should be left behind. By the end, even though I knew I had to hand the keys back it felt like ‘my’ car, not someone else’s…

In the world of high- but not highest-end sports cars, the competition is all good. There are cars that do many things better, but there’s nothing that tops the Evora S for steering feel, which is extra-sensory, and heroic handling. The new S denotes supercharging and, it's worth mentioning, that makes the Evora incredibly fast in the bargain. A slender dealer network and a woeful lack of marketing funds has rendered it a footnote of a car from a footnote of a company, but cognoscenti will know that Lotus has been for over sixty years one of the…

 

 

The Elise S Cup R takes its place in the stable alongside big brothers the Exige V6 Cup and Exige Cup R and the mighty Evora GT4 in Birmingham between 9th and 12th January 2014, illustrating the variety of appeal of the Lotus Motorsport family...