Lotus surprised attendees of this month's 2023 Monterey Car Week in California with the reveal of the Type 66, a limited-edition track car based on a race car that Lotus designed in the late 1960s but ...

Lotus never entered Can-Am, but it commissioned drawings for a race car that would have competed in the 1970 season, likely with Emerson Fittipaldi at the wheel. The Type 66 is the car that could have ...

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 ...

Fifty-three years ago, Lotus founder Colin Chapman set out to discover how Lotus design principles could be applied to a Can-Am Series race car. The long-time-coming result is a V8 known as the Type ...

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 ...

When it comes to the history of sports car racing, the 1960s and 1970s were arguably the golden era. Trans Am was still huge, mid-engine cars hit Formula 1, and Can-Am featured some of the greatest ...

Lotus never competed in the original Can-Am championship, but it wanted to. Now, a mere 53 years late, the British sports-car company is set to produce a limited run of the car it started work on for ...

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 ...

Lotus last week launched a track car based on a design that was conceived more than 50 years ago. The design was originally crafted for a race car to compete in the 1970 Can-Am Series, but because of ...

Most car reveals for Pebble Beach are all-new luxury and supercars, faithful recreations of classics, or some unique restomods. What Lotus has revealed isn’t really any of those. The Type 66, while ...