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.

* Team Lotus, a Malaysian Formula One racing team that began racing in 2010 as Lotus Racing and became the Caterham F1 Team at the end of the 2011 season

Branson and Tony Fernandes, owner of Air Asia and Lotus F1 Racing, had a bet for the 2010 F1 season where the team's boss should work on the winner's airline for a day dressed as a stewardess.

Fernandes escaped as the winner of the bet, as Lotus Racing ended 10th in the championship, while Virgin Racing ended 12th and last.

Cosworth returned to Formula One in 2010 as an engine supplier to Williams and three new teams ( Hispania Racing F1 Team, Lotus Racing and Virgin Racing ), with first units shipped in January.

In 2010 Cosworth returned as the engine supplier for Williams and three new teams ; Hispania Racing, Lotus F1 Racing and Virgin Racing.

Lotus Components Limited became Lotus Racing Limited in 1971 but the newly renamed entity ceased operation in the same year.

The Lotus name returned to Formula One for the 2010 season, when a new Malaysian team called Lotus Racing, using the Lotus name on licence from Group Lotus, was awarded an entry.

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.

Shortly after, Ford of Britain first hired Lotus to create a high-performance version of their Cortina family car, then in 1968 launched the Escort Twin Cam, one of the most successful rally cars of its era.

The " New Flying Finn " won three Scandinavian championships, then in 1988 the Opel Lotus Euroseries championship before winning the 1990 British Formula Three championship.

Lotus Improv was a spreadsheet program from Lotus Development released in 1991 for the NeXTSTEP platform and then for Windows 3. 1 in 1993.

Sales of IBM's PC had been slow until 1-2-3 was made public, and then increased rapidly a few months after Lotus 1-2-3s release.

In large part due to its focusing much of its development resources on a suite of applications for IBM's then new ( and eventually a market failure ) OS / 2 operating system, Lotus was late in delivering its suite of 32 bit products and failed to capitalize on the transition to the new version of Windows.

On October 11, 1995 Manzi announced his resignation from Lotus ( by then known as the Lotus Development division of IBM ).

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 %).

Lotus replaced most of the unproven material and manufacturing techniques with those then employed by Lotus in the Lotus Esprit.

Based on the experiences from the prototypes, Pivco then went on to develop their first true production model, PIV4, later called the TH! NK, with Lotus Cars in a consulting role.

Lotus then began its fruitful association with Ford-Cosworth.

It then simply requires a border confrontation to be blown out of proportion in order to begin the conflict, much like the Mukden Incident shown in The Blue Lotus.

He named the car " Lotus "; he never confirmed the reason but one ( of several ) theories is that it was after his then girlfriend ( later wife ) Hazel, whom he nicknamed " Lotus blossom ".

Other hatchbacks which conformed to the new hatchback format included the 1978 Chrysler / Talbot Sunbeam Ti with and brisker acceleration than the Golf and followed a year later by the 2. 2 litre Talbot Lotus Sunbeam offered a then astonishing and a 0-60 mph time of around 6. 8 seconds ,, Peugeot 104 ZS and Simca 1100 TI ( 1974 ).

Mike Kimberley, who rose to become chief executive of Group Lotus, then a new engineer at Lotus, was appointed Chief Engineer of the Europa TC project.

When Honda refused, Isuzu, then planning an entry into Formula One, had a 3. 5 V12 engine being tested in a Lotus chassis.

Borland, under Kahn's leadership took a position of principle and announced that they would defend against Lotus ' legal position and " fight for programmer's rights ".

Meanwhile, Bill Fitler's webmail implementation was further developed as a commercial product which Lotus announced and released in the fall of 1995 as cc: Mail for the World Wide Web 1. 0, thereby providing an alternative means of accessing a cc: Mail message store ( the usual means being a cc: Mail desktop application that operated either via dialup or within the confines of a local area network ).

Both the Cobra Mk IV and the Ace were made, and soon a ' CRS ' version of the Mk IV was announced with a carbon fibre body shell, a 212 S / C version with Lotus twin turbo V8 power, as well as the AC Superblower with a supercharger Ford V8.

Lotus announced on 7 June 2012 the termination of Bahar's employment, and the appointment of Aslam Farikullah as the new Chief Operating Officer.

In December 2010 Group Lotus ( Proton ) announced the creation of " Lotus Renault GP ", the successor to the Renault F1 team, that contested the 2011 season having purchased a title sponsorship deal with the team with the option to buy shares in the future.

At the 2010 Paris Motorshow, Lotus announced five new models to be introduced over the next five years:

On 27 April 2011, Team Lotus owner Tony Fernandes announced that his team had purchased Caterham.

Caterham Cars had been a major Lotus 7 dealer during the 1960s, and its founder, Graham Nearn, purchased the rights to continue manufacture of the Seven design from Chapman in 1973, after Lotus announced its intention to discontinue the model.

In the final edition of Team Lotus Notes it was announced that Caterham was developing a new model of road car that was scheduled for release in 2014.

In December 2010 it was announced that Renault had sold its remaining 25 % shareholding in its eponymous Formula 1 team to Lotus Cars, and that the team would be renamed Lotus Renault in 2011.

In 2010 it was announced that Lollapalooza would debut overseas, with a branch of the festival staged in Chile's capital Santiago on April 2 – 3, 2011 where they partnered up with Santiago-based company Lotus.

The Series 1 or S1 Europa ( also known as Lotus Type 46 ) was announced for sale to European markets on December 20, 1966.

The new Lotus Elan was announced at the 2010 Paris Motor Show.

Lotus Racing announced on 9 December 2009 that Yoong would become the leader of their young driver development programme.

On April 10, 1990, Lotus announced a direct-mail marketing database product that was to contain name, address, and spending habit information on 120 million individual U. S. citizens.

On January 23, 1991, Lotus announced that it had cancelled MarketPlace.