{"id":87415,"date":"2021-12-23T12:35:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T12:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=87415"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T09:43:16","slug":"lotus-the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/lotus-the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus – The End of an Era"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yesterday (December 22), the final examples of the Lotus Elise, Exige and Evora sports cars rolled off the production line in Hethel, UK. This marks the end of an era that began in 1996. At that time, under the direction of Romano Artioli, Lotus introduced a new chassis made of bonded and riveted aluminium elements. Since then, two generations of the Elise and Exige as well as one of the Evora, a total of 51,738 cars have rolled off the production line. Including the Europa, 340R, 2-Eleven and 3-Eleven, the production number rises to 56,618 units. In addition, a further 9.715 chassis were built for General Motors (Opel Speedster and Vauxhall VX220, together 7,200 units) and Tesla (first Roadster, 2,515 units). This corresponds to almost half of all Lotus sports cars ever built since 1948.<\/p>\n\n\n

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