Marque & Motor Sport Manufacturers

The Lola T70 was the car that Eric Broadley wanted to build for Ford instead of the GT40. He thought the GT40 too conservative in specification for a state-of-the-art sports racing car, so he split with the giant corporation to build the T70 under the aegis of his own company: Lola. Immediately succ..

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Until very recently, little had appeared in print concerning Britain's longest established and one of its most successful racing car manufacturers – LOLA. Yet, over the last 40 years, there is hardly a motor racing formula that has not been graced by a model from Lola. The list of memorable cars is ..

Without doubt the most impressive period in Lotus’ history. Jim Clark and Colin Chapman forged a partnership that produced a succession of Grand Prix Wins and two World Championships, plus Wins at the Indianapolis 500 and many small sports car victories including the Nurburgring 1000 kms again..

Ian Smith tells the story of the first Lotus, a modified Austin 7, as Colin Chapman drove it up the muddy slopes of a trials hill through to the appearance of the production car at the Earls Court motor show, just nine years later. This is the story behind the first ten years of Lotus history told b..

Few designers contributed so much to the development of the sports racing car as the late Colin Chapman. Through his advanced thinking, ingenuity and enthusiasm the Lotus developed from a basic and primitive Austin 7 based special to one of the most successful and widely raced marques in motor racin..

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The Lotus 25 was the car in which Jim Clark rocketed to fame in the early Sixties. It was also the car which established Lotus as a major force in Grand Prix racing. More than that, it was the car that took Formula One technology out of the steam age and into the jet age. With the slim, elegant Type..

Born of an agreement between Ford, Cosworth and Team Lotus, the Lotus 49 embodied Colin Chapman's philosophies of simplicity and lightness in an elegant form. In a single leap the Lotus 49, the first car to be powered by the brilliant new Ford Cosworth DFV engine, moved Formula One technology severa..

The Lotus 78 was the car that started the ground effect revolution in Formula 1. By means of ducts and flexible skirts, the air that passed under the car was used, literally, to suck it to the ground. It created a sensation and revived the British team's fortunes. Its successor, the 79, was a true "..

Everyone knows the name of Lotus. Not many know of those special cars that made the name. This publication concentrates on the 'other' cars and ignores the single-seaters racing cars covered well in other books. Here there are those beautiful 'streamliners', the utilitarian 'mud ..