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1、Lotus,content,History,Lotus is owned by Proton, which acquired it following the bankruptcy of former owner Romano Artioli in 1994 Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World war II airfield in Norfolk . The company designs and builds
2、 race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics. It also owns the engineering consultancy Lotus Engineering, which has facilities in the United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia and China.,Even after Chapmans death, until the late 1980s, Lotus continued to be a majo
3、r player in Formula One. Ayrton Senna drove for the team from 1985 to 1987, winning twice in each year and achieving 17 pole positions. However, by the companys last Formula One race in 1994, the cars were no longer competitive. Lotus won a total of 79 Grand Prix races. During his lifetime Chapman s
4、aw Lotus beat Ferrari as the first team to achieve 50 Grand Prix victories, despite Ferrari having won their first nine years sooner,Group Lotus is currently also involved in several other categories of motorsport. It sponsors the ART team in the GP2 and GP3 Series, and the KV team in the IndyCar Se
5、ries. In 2011, Lotus also returned to the 24 Hours of Le Mans with a semi-works effort run by Jetalliance Racing, which fielded two Lotus Evoras. In 2012 they will partner with Engine Developments LTD/John Judd to build a 2.2 Liter Twin Turbocharged V-6 Engine to be used in the Izod Indycar Series,莲
6、花汽车公司是世界上著名的运动汽车生产厂家。成立于1951 年，现为马来西亚宝腾PROTON集团所有。公司总部设在英国诺里奇市，雇员总数 为500人，年产汽车600辆左右。 莲花汽车公司的汽车重心很低，造型具有良好的流线形，风阻系数在03左右。发动机功率大，最低为160马力，车速高达300公 里小时。 莲花汽车是世界汽车赛场上一个十分有力的竞争者，多次荣获世界冠军。1963一1978年莲花汽车曾经7次蝉联世界最佳小客 车优胜奖。1991年，莲花伊兰汽车获世界汽车最佳设计奖。 莲花汽车公司是率先在汽车上使用高强化塑料车身的厂家之一。 它们采用的制模工艺，真空助力树脂喷射工艺能将车身模制成上下 两个
7、整体，最后再合二为一，不仅生产效率高，而且车身强度大大 增强，在世界上独树一帜。 莲花汽车公司主要产品有“精灵”、“伊兰”“卓越”牌运动 跑车等。 该公司的标志除莲花英文字样外，还有创建人姓名的字头四个字母（ACBC）组成的图案。,在汽车工业史上，莲花品牌与众不同。它是英国杰出的工程师柯林查普曼（Colin Chapman）个人奋斗与智慧的结晶。无论是批量生产的跑车还是赛车，他都亲自参与设计与研制，倾注了毕生心血。汽车史上的杰出人物查普曼组建了一支骁勇的车队，在赛场屡建奇功。他在公元 20世纪五六十年代设计的莲花及许多小跑车至今令人怀念。查普曼从零开始，在汽车运动的狂热驱使下，亲手制造自己所心
8、仪的赛车，进而在汽车制造与竞赛两方面都创造了辉煌业绩。这可算世界汽车史上最美的一段佳话。 事情起自1947年。十九岁的柯林查普曼尚在伦敦大学攻读工程技术，他醉心于汽车比赛，而他的父亲是当时奥斯丁汽车的经销尚，一天他将一辆1930的奥斯丁汽车自己动手改装成了一辆简陋的赛车命名MK I，拿来参加英国战后一度时兴的在泥泞的林间角逐的业余赛车运动。查普曼的自造赛车一举夺魁，引起人们的关注，并以出售零部件的方式销售了多辆。设计成功了，当然要给它起个名字。查普曼突发奇想，就叫它“莲花”。,Formula one,The company encouraged its customers to race it
9、s cars, and entered Formula One through its sister company Team Lotus in 1958. A Lotus Formula One car driven by Stirling Moss won the marques first Grand Prix in 1960 at Monaco in a Lotus 18 entered by privateer Rob Walker. Major success came in 1963 with the Lotus 25, which with Jim Clark driving
10、won Lotus its first F1 World Constructors Championship. Clarks untimely death he crashed a Formula Two Lotus 48 in April 1968 after his rear tyre failed in a turn in Hockenheim was a severe blow to the team and to Formula One. He was the dominant driver in the dominant car and remains an inseparable
11、 part of Lotus early years. That years championship was won by Clarks teammate, Graham Hill.,Lotus car models,Lotus Elise. The supercharged Lotus SC and limited edition Jim Clark Type 25 Elise editions add a new performance dimension to the Elise range. 060mph acceleration is in 4.3 seconds and 0100
12、km/h in 4.6 seconds.,Lotus exige s An Exige with a supercharged engine providing 220hp. The non-S Exige and Elise have 190hp (140kW).,Lotus Evora Launched 22 July 2008. Code named Project Eagle during development. A 2+2 sports car with a mid-mounted, transverse 3.5-litre V6 engine. Lotus will provid
13、e the Evora S Model (2011) as rapid response vehicles to the Rome and Milan Carabinieri to replace the previous Lamborghini Gallardos,Lotus esprit,宽扁锐利的车身与上掀式的车头是Esprit在外型上的最大特征，车尾厢上方则是鳍状的中置引擎散热口。,Lotus 2-Eleven Weighing just 670kg (1,500lb) and with 252bhp (188kW) the Lotus 2-Eleven can sprint from
14、 060 in 3.8 seconds and has a top speed of 155mph (249km/h). Intended as a track day car it costs 39,995 but for an additional 1,100 Lotus will make the car fully road legal.,Lotus T125 Exos Track-only Formula 1 inspired car. 3.5l Cosworth V8, 640bhp; 25 will be built at $1 million each. To run in t
15、he Exos Experience by Lotus, a club, initiated and operated by Lotus Motorsport, in which a limited number of owner drivers can refine their driving skills and challenge themselves with expert one-to-one advice from former Grand Prix drivers and trainers,Announcements of future cars,At the 2010 Pari
16、s Motorshow, Lotus announced five new models to be introduced over the next five years:14 Lotus also showed an unnamed city car concept using its 1.2L range-extender engine.16 In 2011 Lotus revealed this as the Lotus Ethos, a plug-in hybrid car based on the EMAS concept from its parent company Proton, and likely to be primarily built by Proton in Malaysia.,Lotus engines,Range Extender Engine. This all-aluminium, monoblock, 1200 cc, three-cylinder, 47 horsepower, four-stroke engine is spec
