Lotus

Lotus has revealed a new GT4 version of its recently unveiled Emira sports car that it hopes will be taking on the category next season — and beyond.

After more than 25 years in production, during which it became the brand’s best selling car ever, the Lotus Elise is set to retire later this year.

Lotus is a brand well known for finding ways to go faster. The very first Lotus was a modified Austin 7 which founder Colin Chapman built to be lighter and more powerful, to compete in trials racing. Chapman’s principles guide Lotus to this day, with even the all-electric Evija being both as light and as powerful as possible.

Lotus has been teasing us for a little while, but has today revealed its new hypercar, Evija.

When it comes to car companies with a turbulent past, there’s nothing quite like Lotus.

When GT Sport launched back in October 2017, we thought it was a little bit light on content. Polyphony Digital has been addressing that, piece by piece, with free updates over the game’s life, but there’s one thing still notably absent: Lotus.

Lotus has used the Shanghai International Auto Show to give the world a first peek at its first all-new car in over a decade.

There’s few requested content items quite like it. Other than perhaps a premium Mk4 Supra (which Polyphony Digital delivered over a year ago), there’s nothing the fans want to see in GT Sport quite like Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.

If there’s a better way to get into the festive spirit than to attach a Christmas tree to a $140,000 sports car and take it drifting, we don’t know what it is. Fortunately Lotus agrees, and threw in a whistle-stop tour of its headquarters near Norwich too.

While the Wednesday Want typically revolves around cars, for this week’s edition we are mixing it up a bit. Instead of the traditional four (or six) wheel creations, this time around we’re going for two. Nonetheless, this motorcycle still has a connection to a prominent British automaker.

We’re back with another round of test drives from the most recent car pack for Forza Motorsport 7. This time around, we’ve got two quick race cars, and one … less quick vehicle.

Every week we read loads of automotive news stories here at GTPlanet that we can’t fit into their own articles. In this weekly feature, we’ll be bringing you a quick round-up of things we might have otherwise missed.

Lotus gave the motoring world its first look at its more powerful road car to date yesterday. Called the Evora GT430, the new trim takes Lotus’ pretty mid-engined sports car and turns the dial up to 11.

Early last month Kunos released the Ready To Race car pack for Assetto Corsa. The pack brings 10 all-new vehicles to the game, with PC players being the first to sample the new content.

Lotus may be one of the most loved car manufacturers on the planet, but behind the scenes its recent history has been less than spectacular.

The Classic Lotus Expansion is now available for Project CARS in a continual effort by Slightly Mad Studios to keep the game feeling new with fresh monthly content. This month’s content delivers what is surely to pique the interest of those feeling the game needs that little bit of classic flair by introducing several classic Lotus race cars: the 1963 Lotus Type 25 Climax, 1965 Lotus Type 38 Ford, 1965 Lotus Type 40 Ford, and finally the 1967 Lotus Type 51.