In addition to making sports cars, the Lotus brand also offers engineering and consulting services. Clients of those services vary from race teams to automakers. Some automakers handed the design of the suspension systems to Lotus, be it a design from the ground up or an improvement to what the automaker designed but lacks the experience in perfecting. Sometimes the Lotus badges worked as a marketing tool, too. And other times the automakers kept quiet about it, possibly being too embarrassed about not being able to design a proper suspension system themselves.
Today we are looking for the cars that were improved by Lotus Engineering. Keep in mind that some wore the Lotus badges and some didn’t.
The Caveats (there are always caveats):
- Must not be a Lotus vehicle.
- One-offs, concept cars, and race cars, and other specials are fair game as long as they are not Lotus cars.
- Really, any non-Lotus vehicle with Lotus designed bits is a fair game.
- Bonus points for obscure stuff that you don’t find on the first fives pages of Google search.
Difficulty: 6.5 out of 10, 11 out of 10 for stuff none of us ever heard of – do some homework.
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