Lotus Evora

LOTUS Evora released a special edition as a tribute to the late Freddie Mercury, vocalist of the legendary British band, Queen who died of AIDS twenty years ago.

The car will be auctioned at a birthday party last weekend and the results will be sent to the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charity for HIV-AIDS, which was established by the manager and his band mates after his death.

Special edition cars are the only whitewash in pearl white with red and gold racing stripes. The color is inspired costume during roll Mercury Magic Tour in 1986.

While the interior carries the color yellow and the British Union Jack flag motif in the seat backrest. Auction itself was held today, Monday (5 / 9) at the Savoy Hotel London, England.

Operations Director Gino Losato Lotus Company said it is very excited to help raise money for the foundation Mercury Phoenix Trust. "We hope the car fell into the hands of a collector who loved it." CAR NEWS

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LOTUS are developing a new V8 engine for the new generation Esprit models. They even deliberately attract funds from other projects so that the new supercar is a world-class capabilities. Lotus is also reportedly developing a new 4-cylinder engine.

Lotus V8 engine

The new V8 engine is rumored to be able to break the 562 hp through a cylindrical volume of 4.8 liters Esprit supercar that will move from the position at the center of the vehicle. This exotic vehicles would start reaching the market around the spring of 2013.

Once in charge of running Esprit, turn this machine on the front grafted Lotus Elite car grand-Tourer will be marketed around the end of the year following the same.

For 4-cylinder engine will probably have a radical design has a V4 configuration, although it is more likely to design a conventional four cylinder in line. This machine carries the 2.4-liter cylinder volume and will be used first in a new generation of Lotus Elise in 2015.

Lotus is stimulated to build their own machine after getting feedback from potential buyers who want something from the typical supercar and authentic. Previously, Lotus plans to utilize the unit capacity of 5.0-liter V8 engine from Toyota that is currently the supplier of engines to Lotus.

The new engine will be relatively smaller with a length of only 61 cm weighs about 170 kg. If used on the Esprit, the machine will help form part of the overall vehicle structure. Maximum power will be around 9,000 rpm and the engine unit is estimated to be completed in August this year.

Other news also said that Lotus remains committed to launch the production version of the minicar concepts and Ethos Elan sports car whose presence delayed until 2017. Lotus also has opened a testing circuit along the 3.7 km near their headquarters in Hethel, England that also can be used as a racecourse. LATEST CAR NEWS

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CAR NEWS - Recently, car manufacturers Lotus announced plans to develop six-and eight-cylinder engine new. According to Autocar, Lotus CEO Dani Bahar said that the postponement of the launch of the Lotus Elan's decision allows the company to fund development of new machinery.

While rumors circulating indicate that the prototype V8 engine will be finished next month and the machine is capable of producing power of 550 to 570 hp.

As is known, some Lotus concept shown at Paris Motor Show brings engine manufactured by Toyota. Lotus has studied a variety of responses that emerged on the internet related to it.

According to Lotus, Internet survey indicates that it must develop its own engine. In addition, the survey shows they're doing well mixed reactions to the Lotus Eterne four doors.

Lotus itself was quite surprised, but it will continue development of the model because the vehicle was taken Legend of Lotus Elite base that already exists, so it will not cost too much.

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