Caterham Launches New Company, Will Introduce Brand-New Models

Back in April, when the owners of Formula 1’s Team Lotus acquired British sports car maker Caterham, they promised to “have all the ingredients and the launch pad to take Caterham to new exciting horizons with innovative products and greater brand exposure.”

True to their word, Caterham's new owners announced on Monday that they are creating a new, standalone engineering business named CTI (Caterham Technology and Innovation).

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IAA 2011: New Lotus Evora GTE Limited Edition with 444-horses

After receiving positive feedback and ongoing interest from buyers, Lotus decided to expand the availability of its special edition Evora GTE road car instead of sticking to its original plan that called for a limited production run of 114 cars for the Chinese market.

The special edition is based on the Evora GTE racecar featuring the same 3.5-liter supercharged V6 engine delivering 444-horses, up from the Evora S' 350-ponies.

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IAA 2011: Lotus Debuts New Exige S with 350HP V6 and Rally-Spec Exige R-GT

Among the many world premieres at the Lotus stand in Frankfurt is the new Exige series and more specifically, the street-legal Exige S, and the competition Exige GT with which the British company plans to make its comeback to the world of rallying.

The road-going Exige S somewhat deviates from Lotus' philosophy of making ultra-lightweight sports cars with small displacement engines as it brings in the Evora S' 3.5-liter supercharged V6 that produces 350-ponies.

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IAA 2011: New Lotus Elise S with 220HP and Elise SPS

The most popular car in Lotus' lineup is up for its annual model year upgrade with the presentation of the Elise S that features a new supercharged four-banger and the Elise SPS that utilizes a new lightweight, robotized automated manual transmission. Read more »

New Lotus Teaser Begs the Question: What the F…?

Despite what the title of this article may suggest, it's not what you're thinking. You see, Lotus just dropped a note into our email box titled "The Lotus Fight: What the F...rankfurt?" along with a video that is supposed to be a teaser for the British firm's world premieres at next week's automotive gathering in Frankfurt, Germany.

However, all we get is a boxer and a couple of fuzzy images of an undefined car. Lotus has stated that it will show three new models in Frankfurt, but has only named the Elise S as one of them.

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2011 Lotus Elise Specifications, Features, Stills

Lotus reveals the details of their 2011 Lotus Elise that comes featured with new body design with improved aerodynamic features, New integrated headlamps with LED daytime running lights.The new 2011 Lotus Elise will be available in two models: Lotus Elise and Lotus Elise SC.

Standard Features comes with 2011 Lotus Elise consists of leather-trimmed Momo steering wheel, cast alloy 8-spoke wheels, standard 4-wheel disc brakes and anti-lock braking system (ABS), black cloth seats with anatomical padding providing great comfort for driver and aerodynamic rear diffuser with central twin exhausts.

The 2011 model optional availabilities includes Options include traction control, limited-slip differential, hardtop, forged alloy wheels for better performance and Touring or Sport packs.The 2011 Lotus Elise packs a 16-inches front wheels and 17-inches rear wheels.

2011 Lotus Elise Engine:

The 2011 Lotus Elise also comes packed with the same engine of the current model ie the toyota built 1.8-liter, mid-mounted, 4-cylinder engine.The base model of Lotus Elise provides 189 horsepower at 7800 rpm and 188 lb.-ft. of torque at 6800 rpm.The Elise SC—supercharged model has a maximum 218 horsepower at 8000 rpm and 156 lb.-ft. of torque at 5000 rpm.The engine is mated with a 6-speed manual transmission.

2011 Lotus Elise Top Speed and 0-60mph:

The 2011 Lotus Elise model takes about 4.9 seconds to hit 60mph mark from 0 and for the Elise SC model its been reduced to 4.0 seconds.The top speed of 2011 Lotus Elise is about 150 mph.

2011 Lotus Elise Fuel Economy (mileage)

• Lotus Elise - 21 mpg during city ride and 27 mpg in highway
• Lotus Elise SC - city 20 mpg and highway 26 mpg

2011 Lotus Elise Safety
Both the up coming models of Lotus Elise are provided with standard dual driver and front passenger air bags, anti-theft alarm with engine immobilizer, and remote start.The is the inclusion of tire-pressure-monitoring system and track-tuned ABS as additional safety measures.The 2011 Lotus Elise models lacks front side and curtain air bags while traction control is an optional availability.

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Lotus launched Limited edition Lotus Exige Scura Features,Photogallery

Lotus launched an exclusive version of its famous model Exige,New Lotus Exige Scura for lexurious car lovers.The name Scura means Dark in Italian.The limited eddition version has a contrasting high gloss 'Phantom Black' triple stripe running its length.Additional external design features includes carbon fiber front splitter, oil cooler inlet vanes, side airscoops and rear spoiler.The company has decided only to produce just 35 units worldwide.

The interior of Lotus Exige Scura is also made of carbon fibers.The car has a feature called launch control which helps the driver to dtermine the number of revs that they wishes during a standing start.The launch control allows wheel-spin until 10 km/h (6 mph) to further reduce drive train stress, after which the traction control assumes its duties at the defined level set by the driver.The driver can also dialed the amount of traction control required and can be changed on the move if required.

New Lotus Exige Scura is is powered by a 1.8 liter, 4-cylinder, supercharged, VVT-I engine produces a max power out of 260bhp.Scura takes just 4 seconds to accelerates from 0-60 mpgh.The top speed of the menacing car is 152mph.The car has a 6-speed manual RWD transmission with weighs 925kgs.

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Lotus Exige S 2010 release wallpapers

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