A Locost is a home-built clone of the Lotus Seven.

This design was based heavily on the original Lotus Seven.

The Locost is not to be confused with the similarly named Locust which is also a Lotus Seven inspired car.

The Champion Locost and the Haynes Roadster share similar chassis dimensions to the original Lotus Seven.

Category: Lotus Seven replicas

* Lotus Seven ( 1957 – 1970 ): Classic open sports car, a minimalist machine designed to manoeuvre a racing circuit and nothing else.

* Lotus 60 ( 1970 – 1973 ): Greatly modified version of the Seven — AKA Seven S4

Their current model, the Caterham 7 ( or Seven ), is a direct evolution of the Series 3 Lotus Seven designed by Colin Chapman and originally launched in 1983.

Colin Chapman's Lotus Cars launched the Series 1 Lotus Seven in 1957.

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.

Caterham initially restarted manufacture of the Lotus Seven Series 4 ; however, when this proved unpopular, production switched to a Series 3 model in 1974.

As with its Lotus Seven precursors, Caterhams are constructed of aluminium sheet attached to a tubular steel chassis.

The Lotus Seven was offered in kit form to allow buyers to avoid new car tax in the UK.

In the ' 60s, the original Lotus Seven was sold only in kit form in both the UK and the US, in order to evade the very high taxes on complete new cars that were not assessed on automobile parts.

* Lotus Seven Club

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Category: Lotus Seven replicas

The Blue Cloud and White Cloud Bridges are in the foreground while the Lotus Flower and Seven Treasures Bridges are in the background.

An example of these changes is the Lotus Sutra.

This is referred to as the Lotus effect.

The Lotus effect is based on this principle.

With specific reference to Avalokitesvara, he is stated both in the Lotus Sutra ( Chapter 25 " Perceiver of the World's Sounds " or " Universal Gateway "), and the Surangama Sutra to have appeared before as a woman or a goddess to save beings from suffering and ignorance.

Based on the Lotus Sutra and the Shurangama sutra, Avalokitesvara is generally seen as a saviour, both spiritually and physically.

Lotus 1-2-3 is a spreadsheet program from Lotus Software ( now part of IBM ).

This ceremony is described in the 11th ( Treasure Tower ) to 22nd ( Entrustment ) chapters of the Lotus Sutra.

Nichiren Buddhism is based on the Lotus Sutra, which teaches that all people have an innate Buddha nature and are therefore inherently capable of attaining enlightenment in their current form and present lifetime.

Nichiren Buddhism is based on the Lotus Sutra: “ According to Nichiren, the Lotus Sutra is the highest teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.

The Lotus Sutra, however, teaches that Buddhahood is already inherent within one ’ s current life.

To practice the Lotus Sutra, which title is pronounced as Myoho-Renge-Kyo, in Sino-Japanese.

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.

** Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM-PC compatible computers.

The IBM System i includes an extensive library-based operating system, i5 / OS, and is also capable of supporting multiple instances of AIX, Linux, Lotus Domino, Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003.

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 ).

Padmasambhava, The Lotus Born, was a sage guru from Oḍḍiyāna who is said to have transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to Bhutan and Tibet and neighbouring countries in the 8th century

Di Gorgonzola ( who is actually Rastapopoulos, the leader of the international opium smugglers from Cigars of the Pharaoh and The Blue Lotus ) finds out from the Arab that Haddock has taken control of the ship, and sends a Type VII U-Boat to attack them.

The rear is of course " inspired by " Lotus 7.

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.

His version, Lotus 1-2-3, would go on to be an even greater success than VisiCalc, in no small part due to the fact that it ran on, and was tuned for, the new IBM PC.

The suburban flora includes Japanese Yew ( Taxus cuspidata ), Amur Velvet, Manchurian Walnut ( Juglans mandschurica ), Ermann's Birch ( Betula ermannii ), Eleutherococcus, Lotus ( Nelumbo nucifera, a rare and very beautiful water-plant that can be found in several small lakes twelve kilometers from Arsenyev ).

In 1986 the purchase of Lotus by General Motors provided the financial backing to develop a new, small, affordable car in the same spirit as the original Elan ( last built in December 1972 ).

The idea of a small roadster powered by an outsourced engine remained, however, and in late 1986 Peter Stevens's design for the Type M100 was approved and work began by Lotus engineers to turn the clay styling buck into a car that could be built.

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.

Some automotive columnists have presented the Ford MA as the forerunner to a small series kit car, much like the Lotus Seven.

Condensed Tannins are also present in Lotus Corniculatus, which has been known to increase the protein absorbtion of the small intestine.

Master Cheng Yen's initial exposure to the Sutra of Lotus happened when she abandoned her earthly ( and reasonably wealthy ) family in Fengyuan, and stayed away from the world by lodging in a small hut in Taitung County, in eastern Taiwan.

In 1844, The Dial, a small literary publication edited by Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, published an English version of a portion of the Lotus Sutra ; it had been translated by Dial business manager Elizabeth Palmer Peabody from a French version recently completed by Eugène Burnouf.

Tesco Lotus stores stock groceries ( western and local products ) as well as a selection of stationery, school supplies, clothing, shoes, electrical equipment and many other non-food products at very competitive prices that the small 7-Eleven, Family Mart and similar small stores cannot match.

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