11 cars fine-tuned by Lotus

[Pav]

If you haven’t seen it, Hagerty article for perusal:

11 cars fine-tuned by Lotus | Hagerty UK

Think Lotus is all about sports cars alone? Here are 11 vehicles that the firm's engineers had a hand in developing for other makes.

www.hagerty.co.uk

 

[TomE]

Very interesting. A few in there I'd not heard about before.

There are others missing from the list, including a few Protons and famously the original Tesla Roadster, now the first Lotus derivative in space

I expect they'd like to forget the involvement with the Reva G-Wiz electric city car:

The worst cars ever made | Auto Express

Unreliable, ugly and terrible to drive: these are the worst cars ever made

www.autoexpress.co.uk

Several years later they partnered with Infiniti to produce the hybrid Emerg-e, based on the Evora platform and the work Lotus had done on an electric Evora. I saw it running at Goodwood and had a deposit down on one, but it never made it into production:

Infiniti Emerg-e prototype driven | Evo

The Infiniti Emerg-e has evolved into a meaningful and fully driveable prototype. evo drives it

www.evo.co.uk

 

[Leonard]

C5!

 

[Jonny]

Audi R8 Gen 1

 

[FrenchBred]

I can't recall where I heard or read about it, but I have heard of a driving instructor peddling a Satria GTI on track days and humiliating far more powerful machinery (skylines and imprezas ring a bell) and have since held them in high esteem. Quite rare, I don't think I've seen more than 3 though!

 

[Tonyshepp]

C5!

Well it was plastic