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Take a virtual lap of the Lotus test track on Google street view

For car buffs one of the more interesting aspects of Google Maps has been checking out the high resolution satellite imagery of race tracks and manufacturer test tracks around the world. Aside from the engineers who work at those facilities and selected outsiders like the media, the proving grounds are typically tightly guarded places and regular people can't just wander in. Ever since Google augmented maps with the street view function several years ago, users have have been exploring and finding all kinds of neat places they've never ... Read more →

Celebrating four decades of Hethel-built Loti: Limited-edition Lotus Elise S Damon Lavrinc

Click the image above for more shots of the 40th Anniversary Lotus Elise. To commemorate 40 years of dutiful production at the Lotus plant in Hethel, our favorite purveyors of minimalist motoring ...

Lotus 40th anniversary party at Hethel on Sept. 23! Sam Abuelsamid

Click image for a gallery of the Lotus Esprit S1 Lotus has been building cars at its current factory location in Hethel near Norfolk, England since 1967 and its throwing a party to celebrate. If ...

Spy Shots: 2009 Lotus Esprit will be wicked, and this way it comes Jonathon Ramsey

Done deal! Lotus will build the Tesla Roadster in Hethel Alex Nunez

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Take a virtual lap of the Lotus test track on Google street view 21 days ago on Autoblog

Celebrating four decades of Hethel-built Loti: Limited-edition Lotus Elise S 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click the image above for more shots of the 40th Anniversary Lotus Elise. To commemorate 40 years of dutiful production at the Lotus plant in Hethel, our favorite purveyors of minimalist motoring will be offering 50 lucky customers the chance to pick up a celebratory Elise in a limited edition hue. ...

Lotus 40th anniversary party at Hethel on Sept. 23! 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click image for a gallery of the Lotus Esprit S1 Lotus has been building cars at its current factory location in Hethel near Norfolk, England since 1967 and its throwing a party to celebrate. If you're a fan of Colin Chapman's creations and their successors and you're in the vicinity of Hethel on ...

Spy Shots: 2009 Lotus Esprit will be wicked, and this way it comes 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Lotus Esprit, a car severely missed by a huge number of auto fans, is slated after numerous delays to return from the dead in 2009, perhaps at the Geneva Motor Show. Until then, the Dutch seem to be first in getting details on and spy shots of this most English of cars. Last year it was said ...

Done deal! Lotus will build the Tesla Roadster in Hethel 3 years ago on Autoblog

Well, we knew that Lotus personnel had been working with the folks from Tesla Motors on their sexy electric roadster, and today we received a bit of interesting related news. According to a report on EDP24.com (the Norfolk Eastern Daily Press website), Group Lotus' involvement with the Tesla ...

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