Taking a combined 29 % BCA / personal stake in Group Lotus, Wickins negotiated with the Inland Revenue, and then brought in new investors: merchant bank Schroeder-Wagg ( 14 %); Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft's Bermudan operating company Benor ( 14 %); Sir Anthony Bamford of JCB ( 12 %).

DeLorean DMC 12 with Lotus designed Chassis

Notable exhibits include the 1936 twin engined Alfa Romeo Bimotore which has a top speed of, Jim Clark's World Championship winning Lotus 25, the ' howling ' flat 12 Ferrari 312B, and Stirling Moss's Lotus, in which he defeated the Ferrari works team in the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix.

In the Lotus Sūtra, chapter 12, found in the Mahāyāna Buddhist tradition, the Buddha teaches that in a past life, Devadatta was his holy teacher who set him on the path, and makes a noteworthy statement about how even Devadatta will in time become a Buddha:

The Lotus of Allison and Colin Chapman finished sixth in the 1958 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race for sports cars.

His Lotus finished sixth, 12 laps behind race winner Maurice Trintignant.

Lotus 12, chassis no 353, ( pictured above in 2010 ) was driven by Graham Hill in his Grand Prix debut at Monaco in 1958

Peterson battled with former Lotus teammate Fittipaldi for the next 12 laps, until he suffered a slow puncture.

Nakajima participated in 80 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in the Brazilian Grand Prix on 12 April 1987, bringing Honda engines to the Lotus team.

His single World Championship Formula One entry was at the 1959 British Grand Prix driving his Formula 2 Lotus 12, and he failed to qualify.

Royston Tan has since made three more features, 4: 30 ( 2005 ), 881 ( 2007 ) and 12 Lotus ( 2008 ).

Its first aircraft, an Airbus A320 ( formerly of Lotus Air ), was delivered on 12 July 2005, at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport.

Since 2005, the school achieved the Character Development Award ( 2007 – 13 ), National Education Award ( 2008 – 12 ), Partners Award ( 2010 ), Cherish ( 2006 – 11 ), People Developer Standard ( 2006, 2010 ), National Art Education Awards ( 2005, 2007, 2009 – 11 ), Sustained Achievement Awards ( 2007, 2009, 2011 ) and Green Audit ( Lotus ) awards ( 2010 – 11 ).

* The 12 " version of Tool's " Opiate " EP ( 1992 ) features one track that will play either " The Gaping Lotus Experience " or " Cold and Ugly ( Live )" depending on where the needle is placed.

The thirteenth annual gathering took place from August 8 through 12, 2012 at Cave-In-Rock and featured Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, Psychopathic Rydas, Dark Lotus, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, ABK, DJ Clay, Mike E. Clark, and Cold 187 AKA Big Hutch.

* Lotus Eleven ( 1956 – 1957 ): sports racer

Chapman at the wheel of one of his own Lotus Eleven sports cars, during practice for the 1956 British Grand Prix Formula Two race at Silverstone Circuit | Silverstone Lotus Development Director Mike Costin on left holding notes.

When F2 was brought back in 1. 5 litre form in 1956, Cooper and Lotus were the first to build cars to the new specification, taking advantage of the availability of Coventry Climax engines.

* 1956 / 7 Lotus Eleven, 1100cc FWA, 1460cc FWB

In 1956 Chapman was using de Dion rear axles for his Lotus racing cars and also the Vanwall.

The MX-5 was conceived as a small roadster – with light weight and minimal mechanical complexity limited only by legal and safety requirements ; technologically modern, but a philosophically direct descendant of small British and Italian roadsters of the 1960s such as the Triumph Spitfire, MG MGB, Fiat 124 Sport Spider, Alfa Romeo Spider and Lotus Elan.

* 1983 – Flying Lotus, American electronic music producer

* 1975 – Jamie Spaniolo, American rapper ( Twiztid, Dark Lotus, Psychopathic Rydas, and House of Krazees )

Steed's signature cars were vintage 1926 – 1928 Bentley racing or town cars, including Blower Bentleys and Bentley Speed Sixes ( although, uniquely, in " The Thirteenth Hole " he drives a Vauxhall 30 / 98 ), while Peel drove a sporty Lotus Elan convertible which, like her clothes, emphasized her independence and vitality.

* 1796 – 1804: The White Lotus Rebellion against the Manchu Dynasty in China.

* May 19 – Colin Chapman, Founder of Lotus Cars ( d. 1982 )

* End of the White Lotus Rebellion ( 1796 – 1804 ), an uprising against the Qing Dynasty in China.

* 1253 – April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of Buddhism now known as Nichiren Buddhism.

* April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intent to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, thus founding Nichiren Buddhism.

A breed of powerful hybrids appeared in the 50s and 60s and raced on both sides of the Atlantic, featuring European chassis and large American engines – from the early Allard cars via hybrids such as Lotus 19s fitted with large engines through to the AC Cobra.

It is estimated that Medicago diverged from Glycine ( soybean ) 53 – 55 million years ago and from Lotus ( deervetch ) 49 – 51 million years ago

for this are as follows: Wilfred P. Deac, " Road to the Killing Fields: The Cambodian War of 1970-1975 " ( Texas A & M University Press, 1997 ) pp. 61 – 2 ; Robert Dallek, " Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power ," ( Harper Collins, 2007 ), p. 191 ; Steve Heder " Cambodian Communism and the Vietnamse Model, Volume I: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975 ," ( White Lotus Press, 2004 ), p. 156.: It seems likely that Lon Nol initially intended to strengthen his position against the North Vietnamese with the ultimate aim of preventing their troops ( and those of the Viet Cong ) from operating within Cambodian borders, and wished to apply pressure on Sihanouk to achieve this.

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IBM purchased the company in 1995 for $ 3. 5 billion, primarily to acquire Lotus Notes and to establish a presence in the increasingly important client – server computing segment, which was rapidly making host-based products like IBM's OfficeVision obsolete.

* Lotus 2-Eleven Weighing just and with the Lotus 2-Eleven can sprint from 0 – 60 in 3. 8 seconds and has a top speed of.

* Lotus Mark II ( 1949 – 1950 ): Ford-powered trials car

* Lotus Mark VI ( 1953 – 1955 ): The first " production " racer — about 100 built

* Lotus Seven ( 1957 – 1970 ): Classic open sports car, a minimalist machine designed to manoeuvre a racing circuit and nothing else.

* Lotus 14 ( 1957 – 1963 ): First production street car — the Elite

* Lotus 16 ( 1958 – 1959 ): F1 / F2 car based on the Twelve

* Lotus Elite: Describes two cars, one an ultra-light two-seater coupé produced from 1957 to 1962, one an angular 3-door hatch with a back bone chassis produced from 1974 to 1982.

It was with the Lotus 7 in 1957 that things really took off, and indeed Caterham Cars still manufacture a version of that car today – the Caterham 7 ; there have been over 90 different Lotus 7 clones, replicas and derivatives offered to the public by a variety of makers.

Colin Chapman's Lotus Cars launched the Series 1 Lotus Seven in 1957.

The Lotus 7 originally debut was at the 1957 Earl ’ s Court Motor Show in London.

Whilst still a prototype, in September 1957, it was raced at the Brighton Speed Trials and by the end of 1958 Graham Hill was winning races with the Coventry Climax-engined ' Super Seven ' The car has had a strong racing history throughout its life under both Lotus and Caterham stewardship.

But it was not until the late 1950s that RMR reappeared in Grand Prix ( today's " Formula One ") races in the form of the Cooper-Climax ( 1957 ), soon followed by cars from BRM and Lotus.

The objective of this engine was for Lotus to campaign for the 750cc Le Mans Index of performance prize in 1957, three engines were made for this purpose and they successfully won the prize ; Lotus also campaigned in 1958.

* 1957 Lotus Elite, 1216 cc FWE

Allison won the performance prize driving a 744cc Lotus in the 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Chamberlain finished ninth overall at Le Mans in 1957, but first in class, driving a Lotus Eleven.

The Scarab suspension would itself inspire the later Chapman strut used by Lotus from their Lotus Twelve model of 1957.