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The Elite features a front-mid positioned 5.0 litre V8 engine that delivers 620 PS. Drivers can expect this Lotus to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in approximately 3.7 seconds. It features a slick retractable hard top and the optional use of hybrid technology with KERS. Lotus used the dictionary definition for elegance to describe it.
At the Paris Motor Show 2010 Lotus unveiled five new models, the Eterne, the Esprit, the Elise, Elite and the Elan, that were to reach the market over a time span of five years. The Elite is predicted to launch in spring 2014.
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Engineer and racing enthusiast Colin Chapman inaugurated the car company Lotus Engineering Ltd. in 1952, a factory that was firstly located in Hornsey and would only move to Hethel in 1962. Previously, around 1947, Colin Chapman had already built his first automobile based on an Austin 7 chassis. He was still a college student by that time and his extremely light car had been built for competition purposes and would be later called the Lotus Mk1. When hi... more