Guides
Preparation, modification, buying and background reading for Lotus owners.
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How to Prepare Your Lotus for a Road Trip
What to check, what to pack and what to expect when you take a low, light sports car a long way from home.
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Track Mods for Your Lotus: What to Fix First
The well-known weak points, the upgrades owners fit to deal with them, and the bigger projects: data dashes and Honda engine swaps.
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Buying a Used Lotus: What to Check
Which model to choose, what goes wrong, and how to inspect a car built from bonded aluminium and glass fibre.
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Lotus Elise, Exige and Evora Recalls and Known Issues
The safety recalls on record for these cars, how to check your own VIN, and the well-known faults that were never recalls.
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Lotus Colours: A Guide to Factory Paint
The standard, metallic and premium paints offered over 25 years, the famous heritage liveries, and how to identify a car's colour.
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Lotus Cars History: Colin Chapman, Hethel and the Owners Since
How a London engineering student built a car company, what happened after he died, and where the Elise fits in.
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Famous Lotus Drivers: Clark, Hill, Rindt, Fittipaldi, Andretti, Senna
The world champions and near-champions who drove for Colin Chapman's team, and what each of them did in a Lotus.
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Famous Lotus Cars: From the Seven to the Esprit and Evija
The road and racing cars that built the name, including the one that turned into a submarine.