Although the Renault-powered Europa offered decent performance, Lotus had a Ford-derived ... a fiberglass body (in a field), a chassis, and thirty-some boxes of parts. He and his dad, Joe, a ...

The Europa combined Grand Prix technology with Chapman’s insistence that less weight, not brute force, was the best means of maximizing performance. Lotus took the steel backbone chassis of the ...

Lotus is developing this chassis, which consists of three parts -- a rear subframe for the engine, center section for the passenger compartment, and the front module seen here -- for Project Eagle ...