| The British sport car manufacture, Lotus Cars, | | | | wealthy man who had experienced great success |
| creates high performance cars and car parts in its | | | | from his cars on the Formula One circuits. Building |
| England factory. First established in the early | | | | thousands of highly successful cars and winning |
| fifties, the company was founded by Chapman, | | | | the F1 championships seven times, Chapman was |
| an engineer who named the new motor company | | | | responsible for a truly success company and |
| Lotus Engineering Ltd. Two years after the | | | | racing group. |
| formation of the company, the group segmented | | | | After initially buying Lotus in the mid eighties, GM |
| into two, with the team Lotus competing | | | | sold off the company in 1993 to a holdings |
| successfully in F1 racing for many decades. Seven | | | | company owned by the Bugatti motor company, |
| years after its initially formation the Lotus | | | | Artioli. The selling price was thirty million pounds, |
| company was evolved into the Lotus groups of | | | | later seeing Artioli sell a major stake of the |
| companies, composing of the road car geared | | | | company to Proton. Proton, a Malaysian based car |
| section - Lotus cars Ltd, and the performance car | | | | manufacture was established in 1983, controlled |
| section of the group - Lotus Components' Ltd. | | | | by the former PM, Mahathir Mohamad. |
| Using parts of the old RAF base runway, the new | | | | A lucrative aspect of the Lotus business is its |
| factory and testing area is located in Hethel, after | | | | consultancy services for other car and motor |
| moving to the new location in the famous year | | | | manufactures who seek help with suspension and |
| for the English, 1966. In the late fifties the | | | | engines. Often behind the development of the |
| company had also relocated to a modern and | | | | four cylinder engine found in many other makes |
| bespoke facility in Cheshunt. The founder of the | | | | under the GM umbrella, Lotus has developed |
| orginal Lotus Company, Chapman, sadly passed | | | | engines for Vauxhalls and Saab cars, although |
| away in his mid fifties from a heart attack. Having | | | | outsourcing from Toyota for the iconic Elise |
| transformed not only his beloved company, but | | | | model. Currently Lotus is split into two groups, the |
| also his life, Chapman went from a modest | | | | Lotus Cars Group, and the Lotus Engineering |
| beginning as an inn-keepers child to an extremely | | | | Group. |