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The engines were so close in design that, with a few modifications, the Lotus head can be fitted to the Vauxhall block ; engines with Lotus heads were used in Vauxhall's dealer team race and rally programmes until the late 1970s.
The editor, Bill Boddy, said of the Lotus Cortina: "... the modifications carried out by Lotus have turned it in to a ' Q ' car par excellence ...".
Later cars ( 1980 – 1982 ) used a larger 2174 cc Lotus 912 engine, however, because of emission regulations modifications it still only produced.

Lotus and started
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.
** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in 2012 season
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.
Several sports car producers such as Lotus and TVR started as kit car makers.
Lotus was involved in a number of lawsuits, of which the most significant were the " look and feel " cases which started in 1987.
As a result of this early speculative move, Lotus had gained significant experience in network-based communications years before other competitors in the PC world had even started thinking about networked computing or the Internet.
By 2008, the Lotus. com domain name stopped showing a stand alone site, and started redirecting to the IBM. com domain name, to the page www. ibm. com / software / lotus.
* Lotus Elise: The Elise started in 1996 and weighed.
Brabham, who first won the Grand Prix in 1955 in an obsolete sports-bodied Cooper T40 Bristol he had brought home from his first foray into English racing, would test new developments for Cooper during the European winter, beginning a flood of Cooper-Climax Grand Prix machinery into Australia and New Zealand before Brabham started building his own cars, as well as the appearance of Lotus chassis as well, finally killing off the Australian ' specials '.
He started the season by winning the Arctic Rally in January, but only drove his Talbot Sunbeam Lotus in four selected World Rally Championship events.
Then, in 1987, Schiff gathered a group of musicians called Lotus and started looking for rehearsal space ; she began renting space from a studio engineer named John McBride.
Series 1 Talbot Sunbeam Lotus in an unusual colour scheme ; this example started life as an undercover model for Greater Manchester Police.
Only a few months after production started, the Lotus badge on the rear panel was cancelled and a new TWIN-CAM badge was fitted under the Cortina script on the boot lid.
In response, a mass e-mail and E-bulletin-board campaign was started, which included information on contacting Lotus and form letters.
The car which is most often credited as the start of the sleeper car trend is the Lotus Carlton / Omega ; a car which started out as an Opel Omega / Vauxhall Carlton ( which by public opinion, are considered to be non-high performance brands ) but was handed over to Lotus engineers to create a 177 + mph 4-door saloon ( at its time of release it was the fastest 4-door saloon available to the public and it remained in that position ten years later ) with the exact body of the car it was created from despite its Imperial Green colour ( British Racing colours ), discreet Lotus badging, and flared body pieces.
Despite the curfew, the early evenings during the autumn months allow some racing to take place in darkness and the Britcar ‘ into the night ’ race has been a regular on the calendar, with the Lotus 1000 km reviving a tradition that started in the 1960s with the BOAC sportscar races.
Ireland started eighth, took the lead when the engine in Stirling Moss ' Lotus failed, and finished 4. 3 seconds ahead of American Dan Gurney.
The race was won by Lotus driver Graham Hill, who started from pole position.
While most FOCA-aligned teams, such as Brabham, McLaren, Williams and Lotus boycotted the race, four teams – Tyrrell, Osella, ATS and Toleman – broke their stated boycott and started the race anyway.
Mansell started from pole position but yielded the lead to Ayrton Senna's Lotus at the second corner on lap 1 and fell behind both Piquet and Keke Rosberg on the same lap.
Satoru Nakajima started from the pit lane owing to a faulty battery in his Lotus 99T, and René Arnoux failed to take the second start after the suspension of his Ligier JS29B failed.
However, this was failed then he went to the pits to change his tyres, which dropped him to 12th place and made a famous overtaking move on Mika Häkkinen's Lotus for 5th place from the outside on lap 43 ( just right before Michael Schumacher started his final lap ) and finished 5th.
Johnny Herbert and Portuguese driver Pedro Lamy started the season, but the Lotus cars would have 6 different drivers during the 1994 season, which would turn out to be the famous marque's last as a going concern.

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However, Rindt's late decision to remain with Lotus meant that Brabham drove for another year.
The 1980s brought a wave of high-technology startups, creating software such as Visicalc and Lotus 1-2-3, and advanced computers, but many of these companies fell into decline with the fall of the minicomputer and DOS-based systems.
To this end Ford began negotiation with Lotus, Lola, and Cooper.
It was powered by the 4. 2 L Fairlane engine with a Colotti transaxle, the same power plant was used by the Lola GT and the single-seater Lotus 29 that came in a highly controversial second at the Indy 500 in 1963.
Hergé reached a watershed with The Blue Lotus, the fifth Tintin adventure.
) For the same reason, a porting of Lotus 1-2-3 to mainframes with 3279 screens did not meet success because its programmers were not able to properly adapt the spreadsheet's user interface to a " screen at a time " rather than " character at a time " device.
The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).
Images which later displayed attributes of both genders are believed to be in accordance with the Lotus Sutra, where Avalokitesvara has the supernatural power of assuming any form required to relieve suffering, and also has the power to grant children ( possibly relating to the fact that in this Sutra, unlike in others, both men and women are believed to have the ability to achieve enlightenment.
** Pacific Team Lotus, the successor team that resulted from a merger with Pacific and competed in Formula One in 1995
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.
In Emerson Fittipaldi, world champion with Lotus two years earlier, joined McLaren.
Lotus and Mario Andretti took the titles with their 78 and 79 ground effect cars and neither Hunt nor Mass's replacement Patrick Tambay were able to seriously challenge with the non ground effect M26.
According to Nichiren's interpretation of the teachings of the Lotus Sutra, persecutions which Nichiren Buddhists encountered should be perceived as a natural outcome of abiding by their beliefs, as predicted in various chapters of that Sutra: " There will be many ignorant people, who will curse and speak ill of us and will attack us with swords and staves, but we will endure all these things ”.
A personal version of Lotus Notes was also included, with a number of template databases for contact management, brainstorming, and so forth.
By 1995, Windows 95 negotiations between IBM and Microsoft which were already difficult stalled when IBM purchased Lotus SmartSuite which would have directly competed with Microsoft Office.
RIM sells BlackBerry Enterprise Server to corporations so that corporate BlackBerry users can wirelessly synchronize their PDAs with the company's Microsoft Exchange Server, IBM Lotus Domino, or Novell GroupWise servers.
Vajrapani's Yaksha-like Narayana form was eventually equated with one of the four staff-wielding " Kimnara Kings " from the Lotus Sutra in 1575.
When a prospective new alliance with Lotus did not materialize, XyQuest had no alternative but to resticker the ready-to-ship Signature packages as XyWrite 4. 0 and attempt to carry on.
File: Singer66. JPG | A Singer model 66 with Lotus decals from 1922.
z / OS can communicate directly via TCP / IP, including IPv6, and includes standard HTTP servers ( one from Lotus, the other Apache-derived ) along with other common services such as FTP, NFS, and CIFS / SMB.
While i5 / OS, AIX, Linux and Lotus Domino are supported on the POWER processors, Windows is supported with either single-processor internal blade servers ( IXS ) or externally linked multiple-processor servers ( IXA and iSCSI ).
The Red Turbans were affiliated with the White Lotus, a Buddhist secret society.
Engine failures were common, such as Ayrton Senna's huge crash during the 1985 French Grand Prix after the Renault engine in his Lotus failed and he went off backwards at Signes and crashed heavily, fortunately with only light bruising to the driver.
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.

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