Lotus to produce motorcycles?

[theking]

We'll see:

Lotus Announces Lotus Motorcycles

Lotus’s press release suggests that the C-01 it intends to build will be “a hyper bike with integrated racing technology. It will be manufactured of materials like carbon, titanium and aerospace quality steel, which are also used in Formula 1.”

So, just like every other exotic sport bike from Ducati, KTM, BMW and Honda, then?

It looks like the team building this bike certainly has racing experience: Kodewa, the Germany auto racing team, is responsible for Lotus’s T128 LMP racer, and designer Daniel Simon worked for Bugatti.

The press release also saw fit to cite Simon’s work on the Lightcycle from Disney’s 2010 film Tron: Legacy in his bona fides. Terrific. I’m sure there were some cool designers involved in the Viper-powered Dodge Tomahawk, but that never saw the light of day, either.

In his statement in the Lotus press release, Simon noted that the C-01 would be “emotional, heartbreaking, at times playfully retro,” which a friend pointed out that it sounded more like a Match.com profile than a creative brief.

[Silver-Arrowz]

Come on LIGHT CYCLE!

[BuckFuddies2]

I like the Lotus company and their ideals.   

Lightweight and most HP per displacement !!