Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars, urged his designers to " Simplify, and add lightness ".

* Lotus Cars, a British motor vehicle manufacturer

** Lotus GP, a French GP2 and GP3 racing team sponsored by Lotus Cars

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

The Lotus Seven is a small, simple, lightweight two-seater open-top sports car produced by Lotus Cars ( initially called Lotus Engineering )< ref >

The AC Cobra and the Lotus 7 are particularly popular examples, the right to manufacture the Lotus 7 now being owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder Colin Chapman in 1973.

* Lotus Elite, two vehicles from Lotus Cars

In 1954 the first Lotus Cars factory was established behind the Railway Hotel ( now Funky Brownz Bar ) on Tottenham Lane.

* Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars

Lotus Cars joined Jaguar, MIRA Ltd and Caparo on a luxury hybrid executive sedan project called " Limo-Green "— funded by the UK Government Technology Strategy Board.

Lotus Cars saw the placement value with such a major feature film.

Cosworth began its association with Lotus Cars by work on the longer stroke version of the Kent, which had a capacity of and was used in the Lotus 7. and units were developed in 1963 for use in Formula B and sports car racing, and a twin overhead camshaft version was developed to power the Lotus Cortina.

In 1966, Colin Chapman ( Lotus Cars founder and principal of Team Lotus ) persuaded Ford to bankroll Keith Duckworth's design for a new lightweight Formula One engine.

Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk.

This was made up of Lotus Cars Limited and Lotus Components Limited, which focused on road cars and customer competition car production, respectively.

It was cleanly programmed and relatively bug-free, as well as speed gained from being written completely in x86 assembly language ( this remained the case for all versions until 4. 0 when Lotus switched to C ) and wrote directly to video memory rather than use the slow DOS and / or BIOS text output functions.

The Lotus Sutra, for instance, contains a story of a bodhisattva who burns himself as an offering to the assembly of all Buddhas in the world.

Lotus final assembly

While IBM allowed Lotus to develop, market and sell its products under its own brand name, a restructuring in January 2001 brought it more in line with its parent company, IBM.

The last Lotus Esprit rolled off the production line on 20 February 2004, after 28 years in production.

For the first years of production, the Lotus blocks were simply selected for the thickest cylinder walls from the standard production line, and identified with an " A " stamped into the timing cover mating face.

Unfortunately a large number of aftermarket engines, the so-called " VHPD " s " were built with the old substandard GKNs by Minister, Lotus and PTP well after the Goetze liner's introduction to the production line in 2000.

Their main product line is a Lotus Seven inspired car-vehicles originally designed by Colin Chapman with only the bare essentials for motoring in order to give the rawest and most exhilarating driving experience.

But it was Jim Clark's Lotus, with the powerful, normally unreliable, BRM H16 engine, that crossed the line first at Watkins Glen.

Andrea de Cesaris drove superbly to finish third for Brabham despite having to push his car over the line with Eddie Cheever ( Arrows A10 ), Satoru Nakajima ( Lotus 99T ) and Arnoux taking the remaining points.

The teams engine guru Heini Mader had finally solved the pop-off valve problem and suddenly with an extra 30-50hp at their disposal the Arrows ' were actually faster than the Honda-powered McLarens and the Lotii ( but slower than the Ferrari's ) on Monza's long straights allowing Cheever and Warwick to line up 5th and 6th respectively, one place in front of World Champion Nelson Piquet in his Lotus.

* Lotus promised to get back to their glory days with the Renault engines and their 1983 driver line up of Elio de Angelis and Nigel Mansell who would drive the all new Lotus 95T designed by former Renault chief designer Gérard Ducarouge.

The Long Beach circuit was not particularly suited for cars that generate a lot of downforce, and the new Lotus, with its higher aerodynamic drag, could not match the straight line speed of Scheckter's Wolf ; Andretti continually closed in through the corners, but could not find a way past.

Windows 3. 0 versions were being shipped when Lotus acquired the company, and Ami Pro was folded into Lotus's product line, first becoming Lotus Ami Pro, and then later evolving into Lotus Word Pro.

A subsequent Fixpack 5 was released in October 2007 followed by Fixpack 6 in December 2008, although these Fixpacks only contain changes to the Lotus Approach database software, perhaps indicating that active maintenance of this product is drawing to a close.

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 Evora Launched 22 July 2008.

Lotus GT1 Road Car, 2008

2008 Lotus Elise R in Western Australia.

For 2008, there were several additions to the Lotus line-up.

" 2008 Lotus Elise California Edition in West-Central Alabama.

The Lotus Evora, which was launched in 2008

* Lotus adds Europa SE for 2008 ;-from Autoblog

* 2008 Lotus Europa SE-Motor Trend

* Sun King-Album: Lotus ( 2008 )

2008 Eastnor Castle: Thievery Corporation, Trentmoller, Leonard Cohen, The Mighty Boosh, Bill Bailey, Irresistible Force, The Buzzcocks, Beth Orton, Roots Manuva, Ty, David Holmes, The Orb, Lee " Scratch " Perry, Russell Howard, Flying Lotus, Benga, Derrick Carter, Matthew Herbert Big Band, DJ Krush, Hot 8 Brass Band, Fink, Camille.

* Padma Bhushan (" Order of the Lotus ") ( May 2008, posthumously )-for its commitment to strengthening bilateral relations at work not only in India but also in other positions in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Later in the season he raced at Spa-Francorchamps and in 2008, campaigned and won races outright in a Lotus 2-Eleven.

* 2008 Lotus Exige S 240 Review and specs ; Sport Compact Car Magazine

They had another side project, Crop Circles, that was a collaboration with another Italian band, Lotus Omega and with that project they released 2 singles, Full Mental Jackpot & Lunar Civilization both released in 1997 on Auracle Recordings and also finalized an album in 1998, " Tetrahedron " that was finally released only in 2008 on DAT Records.

Sunbeam Lotus at the Race Retro 2008.

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

eds., Zero Point Bombay: In and Around Horniman Circle, Lotus Collection, Roli Books ( 2008 ) ISBN 81-7436-659-7

He drove for McLaren in 2008 and 2009 and Team Lotus in 2010 and 2011, before its rebranding to Caterham.

* 2008 Flying Lotus 29 / 11 / 2008

Between 2007 and 2008, a decade after the pioneering artists first established neurofunk's technical soundscape, the style was enhanced with a series of diverse, forward thinking debut albums set to redefine its concept production with the rough-cut antics of Break The System by Gridlok ( Project 51 / CD / 2007 ); the minimal techno-funk fueled Psycho by Phace ( Subtitles Music / 2007 ); the blending of rhythmic guitar chord progressions on Black Lotus by Mindscape ( Citrus Recordings / 2007 ); the melodic experiments of My Light Year by Telemetrik ( BSE Recordings / 2008 ), the highly conceptual and intensive Nobody's Out There by The Upbeats ( Bad Taste Recordings / 2007 ), and the innovative Black Box singles compilation ( Syndrome Audio Recordings / CD / 2008 ), featuring various artists and highlighting remixes by second and third-wave producers, among the second-wave, Phace and Misanthrop contrasting the rhythmic grit of third-wave producers Chook, Dose & Menace.