Top Gear’s guide to: Lotus

Revered East Anglia-based builder of hardcore lightweights still basically true to the ethos by which Colin Chapman originally made them famous.

A range of brand-new Lotus sports cars is coming

Lotus is putting £100m and 250 jobs into new cars, starting with 'Type 131'

25 Jan 2021

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Official: Alpine and Lotus will build an electric sports car

Coming your way in 2025: two of the lightweightiest names to collaborate

14 Jan 2021

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Could this Lotus have been the greatest SUV ever?

No, because all SUVs are terrible, of course

25 Nov 2020

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Remembering classic games: Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (1990)

Featuring: Norfolk's plastic-clad answer to the Ferrari Testarossa, the Esprit Turbo SE

30 Oct 2020

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Flat out in the quad-motor Lotus Evija electric hypercar

Video: a passenger ride in a prototype Evija revealed its startling powers of acceleration

22 Oct 2020

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The Lotus Elise was almost called something different

It’s 25 years since the Elise broke cover. Here’s something you might not know

14 Sep 2020

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First Drive

Lotus Evora GT410 review: a return to plushness

Is 'go hard or go home' still valid in our newly stay-indoors culture?...

21 Jul 2020

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12 limited-run anniversary editions

Because cars deserve to celebrate birthdays too, right?

20 Jul 2020

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Would you add this lap-timing app to your Lotus?

Elises and Exiges can now be retro-fitted with data for over 4,000 circuits

16 Jul 2020

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Quicker than a Chiron? The latest on the Lotus Evija

The first all-electric hypercar might hail from Norfolk. Here's what's happening

6 Jul 2020

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This week’s special edition Lotus: a 20th anniversary Exige

Tarted-up Sport 410 model celebrates 20 years of Exige

23 Jun 2020

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Lotus won its first ever F1 race 60 years ago with Sir Stirling Moss

May, 1960: Moss wins in Monaco at the helm of the Lotus 18. Here's the story

28 May 2020

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Buy Colin Chapman’s actual Lotus Turbo Esprit

Colin’s Turbo Esprit wasn’t just any old Turbo Esprit, either

14 May 2020

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This is how we’d spec a 1,972bhp Lotus Evija

We've had a play on the configurator, and paid tribute to the Lotus 56B turbine F1 car

13 May 2020

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Lotus says the Evija hypercar has ‘fighter jet’ aerodynamics

And your plain old sports car is more like ‘a child’s kite’. Punchy!

12 May 2020

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The Lotus Elise Classic Heritage Edition is very colourful

100-car limited edition is available in four special colour schemes

6 May 2020

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Ayrton Senna won his first ever F1 race 35 years ago

... and it was in a Lotus. Here's the story

21 Apr 2020

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PSA: apparently the plural of Lotus is Lotus

Off school? Allow Lotus to give you a grammatically questionable English lesson

8 Apr 2020

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Top Gear’s unique 007-spec Lotus Exige is for sale

Lotus built a Roger Moore-inspired Exige for TG to take skiing. Fancy it?

31 Mar 2020

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Come inside the shiny new factory building the 2,000bhp Lotus Evija

Creating a new electric hypercar in Norfolk? You’ll need a smart new production line, then

19 Feb 2020

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This is the new Lotus Evora GT410

All-new Lotus is actually just a trim-level. Booo

29 Jan 2020

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This Lotus 19 was driven by Stirling Moss and Graham Hill

… and it’s about to go up for auction. Hide your credit cards

13 Jan 2020

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The Lotus Evija is still testing

Near-2,000bhp EV hypercar is taking shape

16 Dec 2019

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Confirmed: the 1,972bhp Lotus Evija will drift

Watch a Lotus driver absolutely send it around a private test track

22 Nov 2019

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Lotus will get future engines from Volvo and Geely

Volvo and Geely create new standalone ICE/hybrid engine business

8 Oct 2019

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How to buy a British sports car on a budget

Slightly older British sports cars are now the price of a hot hatch. Here's how to own one...

24 Aug 2019

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What do you think of Lotus’s new logo?

Lotus simplifies and adds lightness to its famous roundel

8 Aug 2019

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The Lotus Evora GT is lighter and faster for 2020

Lotus’s 911 gets a new name and sheds kilos – in the US and Canada. No fair!

26 Jul 2019

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Opinion: why Lotuses ruin you for other cars

Once you've driven a Lotus, you've pretty much completed 'cars'

23 Jul 2019

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Lotus’s electric hypercar will be called the Evija

Start practising your pronunciation in time for its launch

3 Jul 2019

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Lotus will build 130 versions of its new electric hypercar

Get your big red pens out: 16 July is when you see the future of new, *new* Lotus

31 May 2019

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Top Gear drag races: Lotus vs Audi vs Porsche

Exige Cup 430 takes on RS5 takes on Cayman GTS. Rory Reid is your host

3 May 2019

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Lotus’s new sports car will be easier to drive daily

Lotus wants a little more civility to its sports cars. Plus, of course, electricity

20 Apr 2019

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New Lotus saloons, SUVs and GT cars are all possible

New Lotus boss ‘won’t exclude anything’ as long as it’s got proper Lotus DNA

18 Apr 2019

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