Last March at the Geneva Motor Show, Lotus announced its new Omnivore research engine.The Omnivore is a two-stroke direct-injected engine designed to take advantage of the latest in electronic ...

The Lotus 78 took one more win in 1978 ... to create the vacuum effect underneath the car – as the Alfa Romeo engines that powered the BT46 were too wide to permit such an underside designs ...

With a 2,998-cc Ford-Cosworth V8 engine that produced 415 brake horsepower at 9,500 rpm, the Lotus 49 ushered in a new era of high-powered racing. The Lotus 78 was driven to victory by Mario ...

When Lotus added a V8 engine to its Giugiaro-designed Esprit sports car in 1996, the company acknowledged that the exotic sports car game had changed. Lotus could no longer compete having only ...

Lotus is developing a test engine that it says can run on any alcohol or gasoline fuel and expects to have it finished by January. Called the Omnivore, the engine is expected to significantly ...

Furthermore, as a purpose-built range extender (versus an adaptation of an existing engine like the 2.4-liter Ecotec used by the upcoming Chevy Volt) the Lotus engine gets by without fancy direct ...

Last March at the Geneva Motor Show, Lotus announced its new Omnivore research engine.The Omnivore is a two-stroke direct injected engine designed to take advantage of the latest in electronic ...