The British builder of sports cars, Lotus, will be unveiling at the Paris Motor Show in September a new car developed in cooperation with the German luxury tuning firm Mansory.
The Concours d’Elegance at Pebble Beach in California has always been the setting in which the most extravagant automobiles have seemed quite at home. This year Lotus is using the event to give its Lotus Evora GTE racer its official première and also to unveil a special version of the Exige which will be built exclusively for the American market.
At the 2011 Geneva Motor Show Lotus will show the result of their collaboration with the elite tuner Mansory with a pimped Evora. It is a hint of what can be expected from future works tuned versions.
For the eighteenth anniversary of the death of Ayrton Senna a gesture seemed appropriate. Cam Shaft have wrapped a Lotus Esprit V8 in the iconic John Players Special colours and given the car a massive power boost as well.
Fifty years ago the first James Bond film reached the cinema screens and this gives us a pretext for a glance in the rear-view mirror at the cars driven by 007. None was more extremely styled than the Lotus Esprit which seemed to be in its element both underwater and on the ski slopes.