Hazel Chapman (nee Williams) met her husband Colin Chapman in 1944, and the pair founded Lotus Cars in 1948. She developed the Mark II while Colin was on commission in the Royal Air Force, and she ...

Lotus planned to enter the Can-Am racing series in 1970 with a car called the Type 66, but never did. The project died on the vine as Lotus founder Colin Chapman prioritized Formula 1 instead. The ...

North America's Can-Am series ended up on the radar of Lotus' founder, Colin Chapman, in the late '60s, who decided to take a break from working on Formula 1 cars to focus on designing a racer for the ...

Just a few years after Lotus made its Formula 1 debut, team boss and automotive legend Colin Chapman sketched a new design on a napkin while dining out. That sketch resulted in a revolutionary car ...

Lotus founder Colin Chapman aspired to compete against the dominant McLaren cars in Can-Am but never progressed further than the design stage. However, the Lotus Type 66 will finally see the track 53 ...

Back in the late ’60s, Lotus founder Colin Chapman took a break from working on his beloved Formula One cars to take a crack at designing a racecar for the highly lucrative Can-Am series in North ...

Lotus founder Colin Chapman is famously quoted as saying something to the effect of “Simplify, then add lightness.” We’re a bit amazed that it took this long, but someone appears to be taking that ...

Garret Donahue, a Southern California native, has been involved in car culture for the majority of his life. From organizing local group drives to attending open track days, Garret dives deep into the ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...