Lotus Engineering
Description
A brilliant heritage, a bright future
Colin Chapman built his first racing car in 1948 and founded the Lotus Engineering Company in 1952. Over the years iconic sports cars such as the Elan, Elite, Esprit and Elise, together with countless motorsport triumphs including Formula 1, have assured the company's prominence worldwide.
From creating the template for the modern Formula 1 car to spearheading 4-valve technology, from pioneering active suspension to bringing to production the bonded aluminium chassis, Lotus has thrust breakthrough after breakthrough into the automotive arena. Underpinning every achievement has been the relentless passion and visionary innovation for which Chapman was famous and that are now embedded in the Lotus culture.
Chapman championed performance through light weight and insisted that cars should be fun to drive; those values remain as important and relevant in today's global automotive industry as they ever were.
Continuing the Chapman philosophy of blending passion with technical excellence, Lotus today is well placed to tackle and solve the complex challenges of the modern automotive world.
A global business tuned to local needs
Lotus is a truly global business. We sell our sports cars in 28 countries and they are engineered to meet many divergent market and legislative requirements. Our global market capability is reflected in our engineering consultancy business. Our client base includes all the major car manufacturers and increasingly we are attracting new companies from emerging markets such as India and China.
Servicing the diverse needs of our customers has led us to establish engineering centres in the important US, Chinese and South East Asian arenas. And as the world changes, Lotus continues to change with it.
Non-automotive companies are increasingly being attracted into the motoring market. Our unique blend of technical expertise and proven ability to create successful products that stand out in the marketplace makes Lotus the obvious partner to help both new and established companies to flourish.
To improve the value we offer, our focus stretches far beyond the immediate needs of our clients. Ingrained in our approach is the need to understand the demands of our clients' customers, the vehicle's end-users.
We appreciate this facet of business better than most, thanks to our dual role as engineering consultancy and car manufacturer.
Lotus Cars - the perfect showcase
As well as providing exceptional consultancy services to our clients, we have the rare advantage that we also design, develop, manufacture and sell our own brand of cars to a global customer base. This is demonstrable proof that Lotus Engineering can produce fun to drive, thrilling products through fundamentally efficient design that meets world-class quality standards.
Lotus cars are the embodiment of our engineering ethos - that is, to produce captivating niche vehicles notable for their excellent driving dynamics and efficient performance. The purity of the Lotus driving experience is what delights our customers and inspires the press to shower accolades on our cars. It is the expertise to do this that we can turn to our clients' advantage.
- Address
- Lotus Engineering
Potash Lane
Hethel
Norwich
Norfolk
NR14 8EZ
United Kingdom
- Phone
- 01953 608000
- Fax
- 01953 608240
- E-mail
- engsales@lotuscars.co.uk
- Web address
- www.lotuseng.com
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- Employees
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