Lotus’ parent company offloaded by Malaysian government for A$4oo million See Latest News article.
Check out our two opinion pieces on the Latest News page,discussing the new developments of the Lotus brand and what type of cars we can expect from Hethel. You can still buy a traditional Lotus but the mantra “Less is more” now means that you get less car for more money if you can’t accept the blinged-up new models. Lets hope it doesn’t end up in ruins when the smart money runs out.
Postscript January 2012 : The smart money now says,sell Lotus and cut the losses !
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A new Lotus Elise Club Racer loaned to a Polish journalist by the local dealer crashed in wet conditions near Warsaw recently,the driver was unhurt. The car is not repairable.
Still 1200hp, but this time without a roof
The Hennessey Venom GT is back, and this time it’s got added wind in the hair: John Hennessey is planning a Venom GT Spyder for the 2013 model year.That’s right, everyone’s favourite supercar-that-started-life-as-an-Exige will come in an open-top version from next year. And the price for the removal of the roof? $150k (£95k). Which makes the open-roofed Venom a cool (and probably quite blowy) $1.1m (£700k).
But while that’s a lot of money, you do get a lot of power with it – 1200hp worth, courtesy of a twin-turbo V8.And that’s all we know for now. We’re sure the Texas-based tuner will furnish the world more detail sooner or later, but for now we’ll have to make do with the assertion that “with the hardtop removed, the wind and the growl of the twin-turbo V8 will offer our clients an even greater driving sensation”.
Jolly good. Of course, HPE (Hennessey Performance Engineering) can possibly afford to be enigmatic; they claim to have two orders in place already and only plan to build five examples a year…
Winton,15-16 October 2011
LCV teams have been competing at Winton for many years and this year we fielded two unsponsored teams. Team Alfa-Lotus managed by Charles Haynes and Mike Cooke achieved a 26th. place in a field of 42. Team competitors were Tom Bartley,Damian Hartin,Charles Haynes,Nick Ng,Petrina Ng and Allan Pettet,all except Damian driving clubman cars. Team LCV Roaring 50′s was managed by Jon Stoeckel and Pam Gardner,acheiving a 19th. place. Team competitors were Lee Gardner,Peter Knight,Albie Littlepage,Chris Nobes,Matt Nobes and Bryan Stoeckel all driving clubman cars.
Congratulations to all team members,helpers and supporters,well done.
Fifty one of our members competed in Marque Sports Car Association sprint & regularity events,narrowly beaten for most popular club by Nissan Datsun Owners Club. Not only do we supply competitors,many of our members are officials,helpers and committee members.
Congratulations and well done all those who competed in the premier Victorian sprint series.
Special congratulations to those who won their competition class,
Class B Alec Spyrou Elise
Class D Damian Hartin Exige S
Class E Ben Allen Esprit
Class M Bruce Main Caterham
Class R1 Peter Nowlan Nowlan clubman
Other members featured prominently by filling the minor places,Chris O’Connor and Eddie Lankhorst in Class B
Min Chan in Class D. Mathew Nobes and Lee Gardner in Class M in which,except for one,all other competitors were LCV members.
James Stone and Peter Mackie in Class R2
Check the MSCA Calendar for 2012 on this page.
Doc Bundy in the Type 79 at Goodwood
Tear up that cheque you have in readiness for an Evora….take a look at the new Exige S V6,available now in the UK.
The urge is supplied courtesy of a Harrop supercharger. Australian technology,it must be the best.
See articles on the Latest News page.
Controversial rear styling of new Exige R GT at Frankfurt Motor Show…………would you buy one ?
21st. June
Hethel announces 4.8 litre V8 with 620 hp. wallop in 1460 kg. car with 3.4 sec. to 100 kph and 328 kph top speed – see article in Latest News.