Lotus Elite

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

* Lotus 75 ( 1974 – 1982 ): Luxury 4-seat GT —" Elite II "

* Lotus 76 ( 1975 – 1982 ): Fastback version of Elite II —" Éclat S1 "— also 1974 F1

* Lotus 83 ( 1980 ): Elite series 2

* Lotus Eclat ( 1975 – 1982 ): Fastback version of the Elite.

* 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.

* New Lotus Elite.

After searching for a boat to take them to the South Island, during which both men experience an attack of dread from the ' force ' hounding them, Api takes Hobson for a joyride in his Lotus Elite.

Driving a Lotus Elite, he finished second to Colin Chapman in a 10-lap GT race at Brands Hatch.

In 1959 he drove a Lotus Elite, finishing tenth at Le Mans partnered with John Whitmore, and the ex-Bruce Halford Lister Jaguar, winning the Bo ' ness Hill Climb.

He competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1959, 1960 and 1961, finishing second in class in 1959 driving a Lotus Elite, and finishing third overall in 1960, driving an Aston Martin DBR1.

The Lotus Elite name has been used for three vehicles from Lotus Cars.

The first Elite or Lotus Type 14 was an ultra-light two-seater coupé, produced from 1958 to 1963.

A Lotus Elite in racing trim.

New South Wales driver Leo Geoghegan won the 1960 Australian GT Championship at the wheel of a Lotus Elite.

The ownership and history of the over 1200 Lotus Elites is maintained by the Lotus Elite World Register.

There are several active clubs devoted to the Lotus Elite.

From 1974 to 1982, Lotus produced the 4-seat, considerably larger Type 75 and later Type 83 Elite.

The Elite was Lotus ' first car to use the 907 aluminium-block 4-valve, DOHC, four-cylinder, 2. 0 liter engine.

On September 20, 2010 Lotus unveiled photos of an Elite concept that was publicly released at the 2010 Paris Motor Show.

The Brabham Racing Organisation ( BRO ) started the year fielding customer Lotus chassis, in which Brabham took two points finishes, before the turquoise-liveried Brabham BT3 car made its debut at the 1962 German Grand Prix.

1-2-3 was originally written by Jonathan Sachs, who had written two spreadsheet programs previously while working at Concentric Data Systems, Inc. To aid its growth, in the UK, and possibly elsewhere, Lotus 1-2-3 was the very first computer software to use television consumer advertising.

In Emerson Fittipaldi, world champion with Lotus two years earlier, joined McLaren.

The two outstanding doctrines of the Lotus Sutra, which were the focus of Nichiren ’ s teachings and practice are: the attainment of Buddhahood by all people in their lifetime, and the eternal life of the Buddha revealed in the Ceremony in the Air of the Lotus Sutra.

IBM revived the name Lotus Symphony in 2007 for a new office suite based on OpenOffice. org, but the two programs are otherwise unrelated.

Lotus's headquarters in Cambridge used to be divided into two buildings, the Lotus Development Building ( LDB ) ( on the banks of the Charles River ) and the Rogers Street building, located adjacent to the CambridgeSide Galleria.

According to Lennon, the inspiration for the first two verses was the death of Tara Browne, the 21-year-old heir to the Guinness fortune who had crashed his Lotus Elan on 18 December 1966 in Redcliffe Gardens, Earls Court.

After a dispute between the two parties ( Lotus Racing and Proton ), Group Lotus, with agreement from their parent company Proton, terminated the licence for future seasons as a result of what it called " flagrant and persistent breaches of the licence by the team ".

In 2011, Lotus also returned to the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a semi-works effort run by Jetalliance Racing, which fielded two Lotus Evoras.

Surtees won two races and Bandini one ; the Ferrari was slower than Jim Clark's Lotus but its vastly superior reliability gave Surtees the championship and Bandini fourth place.

There were two sports versions of the Carlton: the 3000 GSi and the Lotus Carlton, the latter being aimed at family-minded executives and considered the fastest four-door production car at the time.

By the mid-1980s, Ashton-Tate was one of the " big three " software publishers in the early business software market, the other two being Lotus Development and Wordperfect.

He has two daughters and one son, Clive Chapman, who currently runs the Classic Team Lotus Company and maintains the old Team Lotus cars.

* Vietnam Airlines Golden Lotus Program-Miles earned will expire two years after two years on the member's sign up anniversary month.

While many potential customers believed that the smaller computer could run most IBM PC software and an important market for the PCjr was executives who took data home to work on, in practice it proved incompatible with about 60 % of PC applications including WordStar and two programs often used to test PC clones ' compatibility, Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

With Martin Lilley now being in charge of TVR Engineering ( him and his father had rescued TVR from bankruptcy ) Gerry's racing plans for 1967 seemed to naturally revolve around TVR, the TVR Griffith seemingly ideal, especially with the planned 400 bhp 5. 3 litre Ford V8, the possibility of the 1-litre TVR Tina ( named after Gerry's eldest daughter and one of the two prototypes is owned by the Marshall family ), the TVR 18010S a Lotus Elan and there was also a plan to go into partnership with Ken Ayres in a hot Mini 850.

Gerry also wanted to prove his " sideways " critics wrong by racing a single-seater and in one of the Motor Racing Stables Lotus cars at Brands Hatch he had already lapped as fast as the senior instructors ( I'm sure that cost Lanfranchi a beer or two !!

Powerful prototypes ( effectively pure-bred two-seater racing cars with no real link to production vehicles ) started to appear as the 1960s progressed, with worldwide battles between Ferrari, Ford, Porsche, Lotus, Alfa Romeo and Matra as well as other more specialist marques running on into the early 1970s.

Lotus will provide the Evora S Model ( 2011 ) as rapid response vehicles to the Rome and Milan Carabinieri to replace the previous Lamborghini Gallardos.

Lotus Engineering has established a group dedicated to hybrid and electric vehicles .< ref >

Caterham unfortunately underestimated the effort involved in creating a completely new car and took far too long from its inception to deliver the first customer cars, seeing many people who had placed deposits defect to the Lotus Elise and other vehicles.

Other notable vehicles that appeared in Miami Vice included, brands such as Lamborghini, AMG Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Maserati, Lotus, DeLorean, Porsche, and Corvettes.

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Despite the iconic status of the submersible Lotus however, Bond's Aston Martin DB5 is recognised as the most famous of his vehicles.

* Superformance S1 Roadster, a Lotus Seven Type replicar produced in South Africa between 2001 and 2004, 56 vehicles were produced

Consequently, Lotus put an enormous effort ( for such a small firm ) into testing the car ; over a two-year period 19 crash cars and 42 development vehicles were built, logging nearly a million test miles in locations from Arizona to the Arctic.

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These vehicles were only available in yellow or black, representing the colours of Lotus Sport, and are badged 240R.

The kit and sportscar manufacturer Tiger Racing Ltd situated in UK ( 20 years ), unconnected to the ERA voiturettes or Grand Prix cars, currently owns the English Racing Automobiles trade mark and the ERA trademark and produces two vehicles badged as ERAs: a two-seater sports car called the ERA 30 which is very similar in appearance to the Lotus 23 and Lotus 30, and a single-seater called the ERA HSS.

Like all Lotus vehicles, it was given a type designation — Type 104 in this case.

The VXR220 was a limited edition version of the Lotus Elise based Vauxhall VX220 with a small production run of 60 vehicles.

Lotus Grove is primarily a safe environment with strictly observed speed limits on the roads ( a must when there are about 158 vehicles inside here and kids roam the complex, some of them on fast bikes ), and 24-hours security manning the entire perimeter.

Lotus Grove is primarily a safe environment with strictly observed speed limits on the roads ( a must when there are about 158 vehicles inside here and kids roam the complex, some of them on fast bikes ), and 24-hours security manning the entire perimeter.