Do you want to get the most out of your Lotus ownership experience? What better way than to join like-minded individuals who have a passion that can be shared through membership in Lotus, Ltd., North America’s largest Lotus club. Founded in early 1973, and incorporated early 1974, Lotus, Ltd. has a very simple mission, to enhance the ownership experience of Lotus owners of all Lotus models through a variety of club activities and features that include an annual national meeting, an informative web site and the bi-monthly club magazine, ‘Lotus ReMarque’.
Lotus, Ltd. promotes official affiliation with individual Lotus car clubs located throughout the US that may be located close to you. These clubs conduct a variety of events that will meet the interest of all Lotus owners, including social gatherings, driver’s education events and concours d’ elegance. Local chapter affiliates have also developed close relationships with local Lotus dealers that will further add to your club membership and ownership enjoyment.
Each year, Lotus, Ltd. stages an annual club meeting named ‘LOG’ (Lotus Owners Gathering). Each LOG includes a variety of driving instruction, social and educational events, and are staged over several days, usually in the summer or fall in cities that take advantage of unique locations and facilities. The first LOG was held in 1980 with LOG’s for the last few years held in St. Louis, Dallas, Snowmass/Aspen, Indianapolis and Birmingham.
Lotus, Ltd. enjoys a close relationship with Lotus Cars in Hethel, as well as LCU (the US distributor) in Atlanta. Additional, noteworthy partners are Classic Team Lotus in Hethel (CTL prepares and races several Formula 1 cars in European historic events) and Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, where the largest collection of Lotus race cars in the world is on display. As a result of these and other associations, LOG events always feature luminaries who have been associated with Lotus road car production, vintage restoration and race car activities throughout the history of the company.
LOG 32
This year's 2012 LOG will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Click on the above image to see a preview of what this LOG will entail. Also...please visit the main LOG page on this site for further details as they become available!!
The video clip below is Lotus, Ltd. board member Andrew Barron running his Lotus at Sebring. Check it out to see how awesome LOG 32 's track day experience will be.
Lotus, Ltd. Has Paired up with The Lotus Forums
Your Lotus Ltd Board is pleased to announce we have arranged an agreement with The Lotus Forums (TLF), to host our very own forum. Here you will be able to find up to the minute news and information regarding Lotus Ltd, our Local Chapters and so much more. The Lotus Forums consistently has the latest racing and factory news. In addition, since TLF is a well established forum, you’ll be sure to find all the answers you’ll ever need regarding your Lotus. Lotus Ltd strives to add value to your membership. We’ll sincerely hope you’ll take advantage of this latest tool in our communication toolbox. Below is the link to our own section of the Forum.....
The Lotus Forums began in 2004 from humble beginnings as a website focused around functional discussion for UK-based Lotus Esprit owners who at the time only had a troublesome email mailing list. Initially just for UK Esprit owners, the site was known as LEF, lotusespritforum.com. Since then, the site expanded to cover the rest of the world and we were asked to cover other Lotus models with our successful forum format, first the track focused 2Eleven with 2elevenforum.com and then the new Evora with evoraforum.com. With 3 separate sites on the go much of the content and effort was being duplicated in triplicate so in 2009 the 6,500 Esprit members, 500 2Eleven members and 1,000 Evora members were merged into one happy site and here we are now, thelotusforums.com and we’re covering more of the range too.
We’ve expanded further in terms of members (over 11,000 registered members and 50,000+ visitors/month) and with the model range having been asked to take over an Excel/Eclat/Elite site and adding support for the newer ‘small platform’ cars, the Elise/Exige/Europa. The site continues to expand with 20+ new members per day on average making us one of the largest Lotus owner and enthusiast sites in the world and act as a forum for other clubs such as Club Esprit, Club Lotus Spain, Club Lotus GT, Lotus Cup Eastern Europe and Club Lotus Portugal. TLF is also one of the only clubs in the world to be official retailers for Group Lotus & Classic Team Lotus, something we are very proud of and in March 2012 TLF were added to the Group Lotus website as official global community partner to the brand.
Our members not only discuss the ins and outs of Lotus ownership and enthusiasm on our busy forums but we have many events. From major, national and worldwide fundraising events to our very busy regional areas we enjoy seeing owners and enthusiasts getting together in their cars to enjoy themselves.
The Lotus Ltd board is proud to present that “Judged Concours Option” will once again be held at LOG 32 in Florida!!. Our President Eric Nordstrom took on the concept all by himself, and now Lotus, Ltd. member Art Mason is heading up the program. All Lotus cars manufactured prior to 1978 are eligible! Your car will be evaluated by trained judges and scored via a points system.
We the Lotus Ltd board, understand that restoring and maintaining an older Lotus requires an intense amount of time, effort, and of course money. This new program is for those who want their Lotus to be objectively evaluated by a team of Lotus experts in a standardized and organized manner. Emphasis will be on preservation or restoration to the original standard of production by Lotus thereby fulfilling Lotus Ltd’s main purpose as a Lotus enthusiast organization.
Don’t worry our current “Popular Vote” style system will remain as well as our existing classes. The “Judged Option” is just that, an option. If you decide to select this option on the LOG registration form your car will be placed in its usual class and staged with others of the same series but it will be evaluated by a trained judging team instead of relying on the current yet still successful popular vote.If you are fortunate to win your class you will receive a special and most likely soon to be highly coveted “Judged Concours” award.
So have you been holding off restoring that Elan…or you didn’t think it was worth trailering your Lotus 23 cross country for a popular vote? Well now you have a good reason to get motivated!
Any questions can be directed to your Judged Concours chairman Art Mason at goto11@ptd.net .
Lotus, Ltd. is an independent car club not affiliated with Group Lotus, Lotus Cars USA, Classic Team Lotus, or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates.
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