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View Poll Results: Lotus Sunbeam
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Uncool
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Seriously Uncool
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Lotus Sunbeam
Another car built to satisfy homologation requirements. It was based on the Talbot Sunbeam.
Engine: Type 911 Aluminum Alloy Inline-4
Displacement: 2,172 cc
Power: 155 bhp
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Mate had a Talbot sunbeam 1.6 gls. Was a fun car for a teenager!
The Lotus version a deathtrap! So must be sort of cool!
Not that I'm prepared to vote it such,though!
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Cool. 
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Anything with a Lotus badge is cool.
You could Lotus a Robin Reliant and it would still be cool!
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Originally Posted by Dibby
Anything with a Lotus badge is cool.
You could Lotus a Robin Reliant and it would still be cool!
Lotus Isetta??
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Originally Posted by Ant
Lotus Isetta??
The Eclat??
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
I remember a Ford Cortina Lotus when I was a Kid ( I think )......
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
How exactly, does one satisfy " Homologation Requirements " on a normal weekday !!!!......
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Originally Posted by n13roy
How exactly, does one satisfy " Homologation Requirements " on a normal weekday !!!!......
Think they had to build 400 production models, I believe.
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Always wanted one when I was younger
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
 I'm going to have to think about this as I'm not sure and I proposed it! 
Nicer in black and silver, I always thought, or in rally trim the full Henri GpIV version if you please, Ant!
It was cool at the time but viewed now it is boxy bordering on fugly and mechanically unsophisticated to say the least; surely uncool really, but I like them. Doh! 
I'll ponder!
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
I see I'm one of two to vote uncool ... 
... think people may be forgetting the TopGear definition of cool!
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Sub Zero Always wanted one 
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
See a quailty one racing 
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Me no like. Fraser once took me out for a driving leson in our mum's Talbot Sunbeam. I broke the gear selector
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Sub zero..
Cracking engine, well balanced RWD chassis, plenty of power in a light shell. Last rear wheel drive car to win the RAC, still sought after on the rally circuit and still formidably competitive to go up against. I'd have one given half a chance
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Originally Posted by jj147
I see I'm one of two to vote uncool ...
... think people may be forgetting the TopGear definition of cool!
....which was exposed as rubbish on the show itself.
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Originally Posted by n13roy
How exactly, does one satisfy " Homologation Requirements " on a normal weekday !!!!......
Build 200 GTV's call them Cups and jobs a goodun 
BTW
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
great rally car. Reminds me of West Cork rallies when I was a lad
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Originally Posted by 73GTVJim
I'm going to have to think about this as I'm not sure and I proposed it!
Nicer in black and silver, I always thought, or in rally trim the full Henri GpIV version if you please, Ant!
It was cool at the time but viewed now it is boxy bordering on fugly and mechanically unsophisticated to say the least; surely uncool really, but I like them. Doh!
I'll ponder!
I'm sorry, I don't really know what you're talking about.
Keep in mind that before today, I didn't even know this car existed.
(No, I don't live under a rock, I live on the other side of the Pond, where only God knows what a Talbot Sunbeam is. )
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Sorry but it's rubbish, looks awful 
If you stuck a lotus badge on a Austin Princess people would still vote it cool by association.
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
Cool engine but damn,that is an ugly looking car!
Looks like a '70's rear-wheel drive Mazda 323
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
I think you've got to be a fan of the golden age of Rallying appreciate this one. In my mind the only rally car that was cooler, was the Opel Manta Four wheel drive killed rallying for me.
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Re: Lotus Sunbeam
The original Hot Hatch, no less!
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