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Lotus recently announced that they were working on a special surprise for the Goodwood Festival of Speed; this morning, when the event opened, the English manufacturer launched the 3-Eleven, the most powerful and fastest road car they have ever built. Essentially a Lotus Exige that has been dramatically lightened, the …

The Eleven was always the smallest and most minimalistic car in the Lotus lineup (and that says a lot when your company makes the lightest sport cars in the business). They offered staggering performance from modest drivetrains: the first one, the original Eleven, was built in 1956. It won quite …

It seems that Lotus will finally have to relent and build mass-appeal vehicles: in a recent interview, Jean-Marc Gales, CEO of Lotus, confirmed that the English automaker was indeed working on a crossover. That shuffling sound you just heard? That was Colin Chapman rolling over in his grave. So far, …

If you have ever driven a Lotus Elise, you know that the car has more in common with a racecar than a regular vehicle: it has rock-hard suspension, almost no sound deadening, the engine roars right behind your ears and you sit pretty much on the ground. The S is …

It had to happen at some point, and the news has finally come in: an automatic gearbox will be offered as an option on the Lotus Exige S in every country where that car is sold (so not here). The Exige S is an ultimate track day toy that can …

The timing may not be ideal, considering the final results of the Lotus F1 team at the Canadian Grand Prix (both cars retired because of mechanical defects), but the British manufacturer just unveiled a limited run of 81 Exige LF1s built to commemorate the team’s success in Formula 1. Each …

The small British sports car manufacturer, always faithful its diehard cars of the 1970s, has received a grant of 10 million pounds (British currency) equivalent to CAD $17.1 million paid by the British government. It’s an amount that will allow the manufacturer to better cope with its financial woes, and …

The Lotus Esprit driven by Roger Moore as James Bond in the 1977 film The Spy Who Loved Me, has found a new owner for the "modest" sum of $ 895,000. Initially it was expected to sell between 1.05 and 1.5 million dollars. Recently, the famous car was put to …

It's been a big year for the SRT (formerly Dodge) Viper, after a big unveil in Detroit this past January of both the production coupe and the GTS-R competition model. The latter has been hyped as the chariot for Chrysler's triumphant return to GT-class racing, flying under the SRT Motorsports …

It would appear that Lotus, in light of their new direction, have put their wildly popular Elise and Exige models on the chopping block. Small, lithe, and spartan, the two sports car singlehandedly brought the iconic British marquee back from the brink of dismal failure, but no longer fit alongside …