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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by seabrookmx on Monday August 12, 2019 @12:56PM (#20677319)
> Lotus designed Roadster

One of these passed me on the highway the other day. I've only seen a handful of Lotus in my life and never a Tesla Roadster.. it really is a beautiful little car. Pretty small (and impractical for cargo/passengers I'd imagine) though.

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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by felipelemos on Monday August 12, 2019 @07:10PM (#20681093)
“Simplify, then add lightness” Chapman, Colin.

The Lotus philosophy is to create small lightweighted sport cars, after all.

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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by mbuinl989 on Monday August 12, 2019 @07:40PM (#20681323)
They also innovated, one example was the side skirts used on their black and gold JPS F1 car in the late 70's or 80's. The side skirts gave greater down force when going around corners, its also a discreet way to improve handling on todays road cars as the FIA regs no longer permit the side skirts. BBC TopGear covered this in their last episode.
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Re:GM, Volkswagen Say Goodbye to Hybrid Vehicles by jerkstate on Monday August 12, 2019 @08:31PM (#20681633)
What's old is new again - ground effects will be back in F1 in 2021: https://us.motorsport.com/f1/news/new-f1-car-design-rules-20...
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