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The 1991 Dodge Spirit R/T with a version of the 2.2 L K-car engine with a 16-valve DOHC head designed by Lotus with over 220 hp (160 kW) Vauxhall VX220 (badged Opel Speedster outside of the UK) – Lotus produced and based the car upon the same aluminium chassis design as the Lotus Elise. Production of these models ended in 2005
The company had head offices at the Frimley Bridges site, but later moved to purpose-built premises at Blackbushe Airport, Yateley to accommodate the now-closed aviation division. It still occupies the site. [1] Employing 160 at its head office, Wickins built the company into the largest car auction business in the world before retiring in 1990 ...
CarThrottle ranked it #1 on its list of "10 Of The Worst Cars Ever Made In The UK". [53] Despite its poor reputation, the Marina was one of Britain's best-selling cars throughout its production life, peaking at second place in the sales charts in 1973 (behind the Cortina) and remaining at third or fourth place throughout the 1970s.
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars. [2] Chapman founded Lotus in 1952 and initially ran Lotus in his spare time, assisted by a group of enthusiasts.
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David Allen Wickins was born in Tilehurst, near Reading, Berkshire on 15 February 1920. [1] The seventh child of an architect-turned-builder who was 64 when David was born, his father was one of the first civilian casualties killed in London at the start of the Luftwaffe air raids during the Second World War.
In 1966 Lotus Cars moved into a purpose built factory on the site of the airfield and developed portions of the runways and taxiways as a test track for their cars. The factory and engineering centres cover 55 acres (0.22 km 2 ) of the former airfield, and use 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of the former runways.
Europestar (Chinese: 欧洲明星, pinyin: ōuzhōu míngxīng) is a Chinese automotive sub-brand of the British Lotus Group plc.The brand is the result of the joint-venture with the Chinese Jinhua Youngman Vehicle Co., Ltd. [1] The brand was also known as Qingnian Kuaile (青年快乐(莲花); qīngnián (liánhuā)) or English: Youngman (Lotus).