Lotus 18 – 2.5-litre, four-cylinder Coventry Climax ( Stirling Moss – Monaco 1960) To arm yourself with the latest offers and all the information that you’ll need when pitching to your significant other and to work out exactly which car you need and how many go-faster bits you can order it with, download a brochure here.įor now, it’s time to look at ten of the machines which shaped Lotus as we know it today: If you want to sample the race-bred glory right away, click to test drive a Lotus in Australia here. To celebrate, we’re looking back on ten of the most iconic Lotus Formula One cars, a staggering eight of which took Chapman’s philosophy to first place in the World Championship.įor now we’re indulging in a little bit of Lotus nostalgia, but we’ll be talking a little bit more about the awesome little Exige S soon. It was a fantastic little machine, true to it’s roots and it really got us thinking about legendary Lotus boss Colin Chapman’s philosophy of ‘add lightness, innovate, win’. This same ideal is still alive and well in the DNA of today’s Lotus road cars, something all too rare amongst most modern-day manufacturers’ mantras.
We recently had the chance to blast around in Lotus’ latest 2014 Exige S. Here are 10 of the greatest Lotus Formula 1 cars ever built.
They were racing machines which truly portrayed the spirit of innovation.
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