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Lotus and Cosworth team up for high performance engines
By Sam AbuelsamidRSS feed
Posted Mar 4th 2010 5:31PM
Lotus and Cosworth team up for high performance engines - Autoblog

Ham and eggs. macaroni and cheese, chocolate and bacon (a new personal favorite!). Some things just naturally go together. Such is the case for Lotus and Cosworth. In 1967 when Keith Duckworth, Mike Costin and Ford got together to create the DFV Formula One engine, Lotus was the first team to install it in a car. Ultimately, the DFV won 12 world drivers championships and 10 F1 constructors titles.

Lotus and Cosworth are now back together again working on high-performance engines. The current-generation Lotus Elise, Exige and Evora are all powered by Toyota-derived engines, and now Cosworth will be uprating these engines for new Lotus road and race machines, starting with the new Evora Cup car. The GT4-class Evora is propelled by a 400-horsepower 4.0-liter version of Toyota's V6 engine with dry-sump lubrication all supplied by the engine specialists. We can't wait to see what Cosworth cooks up for the new Esprit... if and when it ever arrives.

http://www.lotuscars.com/gb/racing/evora-gte

Complete with a V6 Toyota Cosworth engine and weighing just 1245kg, the Evora GTE has been designed for GT2 and international endurance series around the globe.

Now I have to say "Toyota Cosworth", just shoot me now.


Lotus and Cosworth Partner on Race Engines, Possibly More?
March 3, 2010
http://blog.caranddriver.com/lotus-and-cosworth-partner-on-race-engines-possibly-more/

A cautious reading of that statement suggests that Cosworth’s building of the race engines would simply have a minimal trickle-down effect for Lotus’s street cars, but a more optimistic take suggests that Lotus and Cosworth might work directly on future Lotus street models, or at least special Cosworth editions of the road cars.

http://issuu.com/lotuscars/docs/lotus_racing_brochure/22

EVORA GT4
http://www.lotuscars.com/gb/racing/evora-gt4