On Display Now Through January 8th, 2024
Lotus Cars might best be known for their incredible racing vehicles that dominated in numerous racing series throughout history, including Formula 1, and their groundbreaking win at the Indy 500 in 1965. However, behind the racing was a company producing road cars for the general public to help support their racing efforts. This exhibit explores the stories of these production road cars that allowed the found of Lotus, Colin Chapman, to follow his passion and create one of the winningest race teams in history. Applying his principals of making his race cars lighter in every aspect to the development of the Lotus production cars, he created some of the lightest, fastest, and most fun British sports cars on the road. Come enjoy a spin around this exhibit and see how race car technology can make for some extremely fun road cars!