Lotus Cars assembly line as of 2008

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.

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.

This " true and correct form of Buddhism ", as Nichiren saw it, entailed regarding the Lotus Sutra as the fullest expression of the Buddha's teachings and putting those teachings into practice.

Lotus introduced what is likely the most successful example, Lotus Improv, which saw some commercial success, notably in the financial world where its powerful data mining capabilities remain well respected to this day.

This period also saw the release of Manuscript, a word processor, Lotus Agenda, an innovative personal information manager ( PIM ), which flopped, and Improv, a groundbreaking modeling package ( and spreadsheet ) for the NeXT platform.

During his lifetime Chapman saw Lotus beat Ferrari as the first team to achieve 50 Grand Prix victories, despite Ferrari having won their first nine years sooner.

When American Formula One driver Dan Gurney first saw the Lotus 25 at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, he was so struck by the advanced design that he invited Chapman to the 1962 Indianapolis 500, where Gurney made his Indy début at the wheel of a space-frame rear engined car designed by John Crosthwaite ( who had previously worked for Chapman ) and built by American hot-rodder Mickey Thompson.

1973 saw the release of Jacky Ickx's Ferrari 312 B2 ( 152 ) and the John Player Special Lotus 72 ( 154 ) of World Champion Emerson Fittipaldi, and in 1974 the Shadow F1 car was issued in both UOP livery ( 155 ) driven by Jackie Oliver, and as Graham Hill's Embassy Shadow ( 156 ).

1966 also saw the release of another British television tie-in, a two car set from The Avengers ( GS40 ) which featured figures of the stars of the show ' John Steed ' and ' Emma Peel ' and their respective cars ; the 1927 Bentley from the Corgi Classics range and a white Lotus Elan.

Success in sports car racing saw him make his Formula One debut for Team Lotus in 1959.

The 1969 British Grand Prix, saw a record number of four 4WD cars using the Ferguson system entered, with John Miles in a Lotus 63 achieving the best finish of 10th.

2006 saw Donnelly return to Lotus, participating in a track day sponsored by a Lotus owner's club.

Also importantly, 2006 saw the debut of a ' modern ' category, with the sole entry of a Lotus Elise (' Chica Loca ') run by Rachel Larratt.

Satoru Nakajima's first Grand Prix, saw him finish just outside of the points in seventh in his Lotus 99T.

The last year of the 2. 5 litre formula produced repeat victories for Jack Brabham and Cooper, and saw Lotus, Porsche, and BRM campaigning rear-engined cars.

The car saw not only enthusiastic press reviews, but also much success in the World Rally Championship-in 1980, Henri Toivonen won the 29th Lombard RAC Rally in one, and in 1981 the Sunbeam Lotus brought the entire Manufacturer Championship to Talbot.

Nevertheless, for 1967 he was drafted into the Team Lotus Formula Two team, which also saw him making his Grand Prix debut in the F2 class at the German Grand Prix, where he came 5th overall and won the F2 class.

1962 saw Gregory win the Canadian Grand Prix sports car race at Mosport Park in a Lotus 19-Climax.

Denis Jenkinson commented: " The driving of Ryan, the Canadian, and Spence, both in Ian Walker Lotus-Juniors, was very impressive ,.." At Mallory Park, England, on June 11, 1962, Ryan drove an FJ Lotus: " The Formula Junior event saw Peter Ryan adding to his growing reputation in Europe by tailing Peter Arundell's works Lotus for the whole race, then nipping through on lap 28 to win by a second.

The first practice session saw Jody Scheckter, who loved the tight oceanside circuit, fastest in the Wolf in 1: 22. 79, just ahead of Andretti in his brand new Lotus 78.

The race saw not only the end of Formula One at Watkins Glen, but former champions Emerson Fittipaldi and Jody Scheckter's last Grand Prix and Mario Andretti's last race for Colin Chapman and Lotus.

The release of Lotus Edition ( in 2005 ) and Samurai Edition ( 2007 ) saw extensive changes to several aspects of the game.

The 2. 2 NA ( naturally aspirated ) version was considered the easier drive of the two standard variants, and some journalists recommended that the Opel / Vauxhall car was better value for money than the Lotus ( such as Jeremy Clarkson in his 2003 DVD Shoot Out ).

Recognizing the value of the new Cosworth DFV, after a Lotus win at Zandvoort in its debut in 1967, with financial help from Elf, Dunlop, and Ford, Tyrrell achieved his dream of moving to Formula 1 in 1968, as team principal for Matra International, a joint-venture established between Tyrrell's own team and the French auto manufacturer Matra.

“ To place supreme value on the human being is the teaching of the Lotus.

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.