Pretty Woman – too much of a risk for Ferrari… Enter Lotus.
Being featured in a major motion picture can be the making of a car brand, just look at what Bond did for Aston Martin and how iconic the Back to the Future DeLorean is. However, one film challenged the international PR teams at several car manufacturers – Pretty Woman. In 1988, Sandy Isaac was working […]
Zenos – the upstarts treading on Lotus toes
When Zenos appeared barely a couple of years ago, I could tell there was something different about them… You see a lot of sports car manufacturers start up around England. Generally they borrow bits from companies that know what they’re doing – like Ford, Toyota, BMW – and usually fix them all to a ladder-frame chassis and […]
Auction cars with Grand Prix World Champion connections
The auction year is arriving at an interesting time, when car collectors are thinking to next year – moving on some classics they enjoyed over the last few years to a new home. This is clear from the eclectic mix of lots entered into the Historics at Brooklands sale taking place on the 26th November […]
Lotus Carlton: Vauxhall’s Muscle-Bound Everyman Hero
Launched in 1991, the Lotus Carlton caused something of a Tabloid Panic. It was a ‘Killer Family Car’ – so went the tale. Class prejudice was riven through the sentiment. Plenty of Porsche, Ferrari – even BMW M5s of the time were able to push out toward the 170MPH mark. But because this was a Vauxhall […]
Lotus Europa and , errr…Barry Gibb’s trousers…
The odd little 1960s sports car from Lotus was the quintessence of cool
Lotus Ford Cortina
Killer Ford Cortina MK 2 motored by Lotus
Lotus C-01: Lightcycle
The Lotus C-01 comes straight out of a Sci-Fi film
Lotus Elan S4
The roustabout Lotus cutester
Talbot Lotus sunbeam Time Warp
It sounds like a piece of Hawking-like speculative theorising. When can it be possible to drive a brand new car that is actually over 30 years old? Well now actually Steve, and it’s got nothing to do with string theory or the intervention of a mischievous Q. In fact it’s a possibility open to anyone, […]
TVR: The Return of The King
It was created in 1947 by a bloke called Trevor off the back of a Blackpool pram company. In the 1990’s it became Britain’s biggest sports car manufacturer. It was shut down in 2006 by a Russian millionaire. But put away your hankies and let the weeping cease for TVR will rise again like an […]