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New Ford Galaxy

Very nice, congratulations! Money well spent imo!

Somewhere near Brussels could be, from geographical point of view, a good choice as well. Easily accessible through high ways, ferries and trains. We could storm to the Ring or Spa easily from there. Legend cars for legend tracks and vice versa. Depending on when the event occurs, we could arrange a parade lap at Spa. One other thought could be to combine it with the Lotus Festival at Brands, that's in the summer, although we already had some torrential rains during the festival in the past ;-) Not that I am unhappy, with the locations already mentioned, I'm happy with those as well. I guess most Esprits are still to be found in the UK?

Take Waky with you this time for the Ring trip But beware our Belgian Stig has to race for my friend's team on 4 and 5 april at Spa and he's racing at Dijon on Mai 1 and 2, together with the Lotus Cup Europe. So no Ring trips then :-D I don't know how good your French is but if you want to do Dijon as well; this a good website for Dijon and for trackdays in general in France. Let me know if you want me to translate

My hope is that Bibs can arrange me a ticket for the Geneva show, when I go and see the new/facelifted cars on the opening day ;-) Booked my ticket last week. I still hope Lotus starts to make sense again, goes back to their roots and put a 2.0 or 2.5 engine with turbo or SC in cars like the Evora.

An Evora off road, yep that's really a car that ticks all the Lotus core value boxes.

They are going to get some back so it seems... It appears the trophies went for a swim...

Hey hey hey... Andrew keep in line there, I was clearly in front of you in that dream :D

Horner still has a "trophy" fiance, no?

yup extremely low.

VAG in to F1 episode #1,800,000,000.000.... F1 is no Lemans you know. Toyota and Honda know this already.

Wow great company they are! Yup great dash indeed! I'll be looking at this one, but for a race car.

Lotus heaven must be missing an angel... ;-) Unbelievable! This is the Elise I'm dreaming of. Did you do the work yourself? There is a Honda engine lying next to my Elise for already 5 years. I don't seem to find the courage to convert it.

When I was looking for my Esprit I found a grey SE High Wing with a 2.0 engine in Italy. I also know someone here in Belgium whom owns an early yellow S4 with a 2.0 engine, also originally from Itally.

The best looking Esprit, but I just might be a little subjective... ;-) Welcome! And have great fun with it. Italian so it's a 2.2 or a 2.0?

+1 It wouldn't be fair if someone whom has more than twice the amount of race wins, would not win the championship. The best driver won, justice.

Number 66 Mario's race win in Zolder 1978 arrived today at FKM Not sure whether it's already sold.

Number 76, Senna's victory in Jerez, is on the road in Belgium since this weekend. A link here.

Well we'll never really know what Coco actually did. He probably re-designed a lot of parts and made lots of style studies. But I doubt we will see them in production. One thing that is sure is that he was an absolute fezza 599 fan, as he did the lead design on it and he said himself; this was the kind of Lotus he wanted to create (elite). From that point on, I knew he could be a brilliant designer, but did not understand anything what Lotus stands for...

It's a shame Steven Crijns couldn't wait for Coco to leave Lotus. I hope the front engined F599 will be definitely off the cards now. Good luck Russell Carr!!! Make us proud again! The Exige S was mainly designed by Steven Crijns (and under MJK not Bahar!)... The only thing Donato demanded for was the Evora diffusor.

Lawrence Stroll is THE person whom left Team Lotus for dead, way back in 1995 at the very last split second, so he will suite perfectly with all the other snakes at Enstone. Now that the Enstone team has a Mercedes deal, I wouldn't be surprised that Alonso is going back to a team he used to know very well and where he was very lucky.

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Team Lotus started the 1992 season in a 102D with Ford engine, which looked very much like the 102B with Judd engine. Maybe that caused the confusion?

Luca did some very great things at Ferrari. Their profits are insane to automotive standards. Whereas many constructors want/need to sell more cars to get more profit, Luca is planning on restricting the amount of cars, so to raise the price of the cars (and keep the prices of the second hand ones up). But the bad performance of the 1.6 turbo power unit in F1 is probably the reason why he needs to go. Mattiacci coming in was the prelude to the era of Luca. When I read that the boss of Fiat USA would step into the F1 team, I realised Luca's time had come. Sad, but such is the hard business side of F1, good luck to Luca. I think he would end up being a second Bahar, he would never understand the true nature of Lotus I'm afraid.