About Lotus Group

ABOUT LOTUS GROUP

LOTUS BRAND

No other marque can claim a better track record when it comes to designing and manufacturing a thoroughbred sports car and, over the last seven decades, Lotus has remained true to the ethos of its founder Colin Chapman. Applying his approach to precision engineering and automotive innovation, but using the latest technologies and advanced materials, it ensures that every Lotus is strong yet light and simply amazing to drive.

Unconcerned with following more mainstream companies, Lotus’ unconventional approach and focus ensures that the brand remains as agile, fast and responsive as its cars.

Colin Chapman famously said, ‘Adding power makes you faster on the straights, subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere,’ and that thinking has become part of their DNA.”

Every Lotus benefits from the company’s dedication to engineering, optimising and refining at every stage of the design and construction process.

Each Lotus car is built by hand, and is just one of around 2,000 vehicles a year that leave the famous factory in Hethel, Norfolk. Immensely proud of its heritage, Lotus combines the very best of British craftsmanship with cutting edge design to provide customers with an un-paralleled experience.

Ultimately, the best way to understand a Lotus is to drive it. Only then can you truly understand the focus and precision that make it one of the world’s best car brands.

LOTUS CARS

Lotus builds some of the world’s best respected, and highest performing sports cars. Alongside the benchmark Evora 400, the iconic Elise, the revered Exige and the hypercar humbling 3-Eleven all deliver a pure, exhilarating drive.

Lotus’ approach continues to provide a pure, undiluted driving experience and the latest models perfectly illustrate the Lotus approach to “light is right” engineering.

Far more than just boosting straight-line performance, reducing a car’s kerb weight allows for the correct calibration of the suspension. This allows sharper handling, and better body and roll control, but not at the expense of ride comfort and composure. The overall reduction of weight also allows for optimised weight distribution, a huge contributor to the poise and balance of a sports car during high-speed cornering.

LOTUS ENGINEERING

Providing comprehensive and versatile consultancy services to many of the world’s OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers Lotus Engineering is an internationally recognised automotive engineering consultancy.

Committed to driving forward technology, for both Lotus Cars and its Engineering clients, Lotus Engineering is a global high-tech company spearheading research into such areas as advanced powertrain design & validation, lightweight material research and ride and handling