Car of the Week: Lotus Europa

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oVWWe_HOaPlbOsNq59D-7vBxkX1SMoQFvpdupn2rBUXYPsdpRqBFCYeY-JK54AAhNNrsNu4LlHybnX-dEBMRqC2hhPl6ye9kD3bkZn2zGmKQpnbIWymPFeDSns-XKor2my6QFoIcNDYY/s1600/DSC06937.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8oVWWe_HOaPlbOsNq59D-7vBxkX1SMoQFvpdupn2rBUXYPsdpRqBFCYeY-JK54AAhNNrsNu4LlHybnX-dEBMRqC2hhPl6ye9kD3bkZn2zGmKQpnbIWymPFeDSns-XKor2my6QFoIcNDYY/s640/DSC06937.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><br />Hello<br /><br />Here's the this weeks 'Car of the Week', the Lotus Europa. My Modelcar is the Special Version.<br /><br />Between 1966 and 1975 'Lotus Cars' produced about 9300 Lotus Europa in Hethel, Norfolk, England. <br />It's a 2-door sports car coupe.  Lotus founder Colin Chapman's philosophy of the automotive design was "Simplify, then add lightness" - And thats how the Europa looks like. The Europa was the first mid-engine mass-produced road car. Automotive writers described the handling very near to a Formula car for the road.<br /><br />Sine December 1966 you were able to order the Series 1 or S1 Europa or Lotus Type 46, the first were delivered in France in February 1967. The engines, from a Renault 16, had 82 hp (61 kW) and needed 10 seconds for the run 0-100 kkmh / 0-60 mph. The top speed was around 180 kmh (110 mph) and only 644 were produced.<br />The Type 47 had 165 hp and was a modified track-version. There are no serious numbrs, but they built around 55 ones between 1966 and 1970.<br /><br />The Series 2 or S2 Europa or Type 54 was introduced in the first quartal of 1968. Electric windows and a new interieur are some new gadgets of this model. There also were a few, about 200, modified to be exported to the US.<br /><br />Between 1969 and 1970 they had a new Version, the Type 65 or S2 Federal to better comply with the US D.O.T standards. With one of those they reached the 100 kmh / 60 mph from zero in 9.6 seconds and a top speed of 187 kmh / 116 mph. About 3 615 S2 were produced. <br /><br />Since 2006 the rebuilt the Europa and called it 'Europa S'. They have an 2 l turbo engine with 200 PS (197 bhp). They have a maximum speed around 230 kmh / 143 mph and need 5.8 seconds for 0-100 kmh / 0-60 mph. Since 2008 there's also the 'Europa SE' with 225 PS available.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFkvwCwACjmhveLIiL9KwE-luDFRA5BRVHY9HsnY6Qv5QLWtKG23Dmo9IJab9Lkm2e7wg7_-fOqH99AMzhyeU3jjpYn9_ihJTlExSkLuPFXiDeaReFFjKRD4kjACP9_o6gQzdOn3GttCun/s1600/DSC06936.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFkvwCwACjmhveLIiL9KwE-luDFRA5BRVHY9HsnY6Qv5QLWtKG23Dmo9IJab9Lkm2e7wg7_-fOqH99AMzhyeU3jjpYn9_ihJTlExSkLuPFXiDeaReFFjKRD4kjACP9_o6gQzdOn3GttCun/s640/DSC06936.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4mWkGZ5hjhc8qEajQZFRPwh0m4XtQBo0sSMEPal5nYTKiQFtGfog3nBCptJ3XliK2VH54psFKfG-WyFCnmY4JLjmHo-oUY-r2vG7sk3G3JvbinVWkcIJxBIuJn60duuNOz5Xoa_5Nwb3/s1600/DSC06938.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO4mWkGZ5hjhc8qEajQZFRPwh0m4XtQBo0sSMEPal5nYTKiQFtGfog3nBCptJ3XliK2VH54psFKfG-WyFCnmY4JLjmHo-oUY-r2vG7sk3G3JvbinVWkcIJxBIuJn60duuNOz5Xoa_5Nwb3/s640/DSC06938.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwr364FXvgxEVub9boC3GsqyMlCuTJ5SU8fBMpSAQjE2FZQdeO86RCavgM2ADU4mUYFi3whumx3EVgCAKXRul7kUPL4av_QSeciGSiXre43hsb0wNU7xNJoPkBE3nklH9yRIr4x9an957/s1600/DSC06940.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFwr364FXvgxEVub9boC3GsqyMlCuTJ5SU8fBMpSAQjE2FZQdeO86RCavgM2ADU4mUYFi3whumx3EVgCAKXRul7kUPL4av_QSeciGSiXre43hsb0wNU7xNJoPkBE3nklH9yRIr4x9an957/s640/DSC06940.jpg" width="430" /></a></div><br /><i>Lisa</i><br /><br /><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><fb:like font="arial" href="http://the-car-addict.blogspot.com/" show_faces="false" width="450"></fb:like>

Car of the Week: Lotus Europa

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