Lotus Launches 2009 Clark Type 25 Elise SC
Type 25 celebrates the life of Jim Clark
Los Angeles, CA - Jim Clark is considered by many as the finest and most naturally gifted racing driver of all time. He won the F1 World Championship twice for Team Lotus in 1963 and in 1965. In total, he won 25 Grand Prix races and was the first Briton to win the Indianapolis 500. Clark won a third of all the F1 races he entered, as well as racing in other formulae such as F2, F3 and Touring Cars. Typically he would race in as many as three different categories per race meeting! How many of the current crop of F1 drivers would do that? In tribute to Jim Clark's achievements, Lotus, in association with Classic Team Lotus, is producing the Clark Type 25 Elise SC, with a donation for each of these special cars sold going to the Jim Clark memorial fund. This Elise, limited to just 25 cars in the North American market (25 being the Type number of his 1963 Lotus F1 car and his number of F1 wins) has been authorized by the Clark family and coincides with the 40th anniversary of Jim Clark's death at Hockenheim in 1968.
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NEW 2009 EXIGE 260 ADDS LIGHTNESS AND POWER TO INCREASE PERFORMANCE
Extensive use of carbon fiber and lightweight components brings the strongest performance yet from the Exige.
Los Angeles, CA - The Exige 260 adds lightness and power to push the performance envelope even further. Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus is attributed as saying "adding power makes you faster on the straights; adding lightness makes you faster everywhere" and this statement is more relevant today than it ever has been.
The new 2009 Lotus Exige 260 does both!
Through the extensive use of carbon fiber panels to replace the front lower splitter, front access panels at the base of the windshield, roof, rear engine cover, side air intake ducts, rear wing and the interior dash top and sill covers, the Exige 260 crosses the scales approximately 50 pounds lighter than the S 240 yet it also has an additional 17 horsepower on tap to propel it through whatever street scene or track experience you wish to throw at it.
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