What Lotus has revealed isn’t really any of those. The Type 66, while looking like a reproduction of a classic race car, is actually completely new, since it was never built in the first place.

Lotus has just revealed a Type 66 for the modern era, bearing the same name as a car that was once proposed, but never built, to enter the 1970 Can-Am championship. A run of 10 cars will be ...

What they have created is the Lotus Type 66, a car that looks like it's from the glory days of Can-Am, but with modern GT3 performance. Let's briefly talk about why the Can-Am effort failed to put ...

Unfortunately, the Type 66 project never proceeded past the design stage. Since Lotus is celebrating its 75th anniversary, it took the opportunity to bring a slightly modernized interpretation of ...

When Lotus shifted focus to its successful Formula 1 program in the '70s, interesting projects such as Type 66 had to be canned. Some fifty years later, the project has been reborn and Lotus ...

The Type 66 is the car that could have been: 53 years after drawing it, Lotus is building 10 of them, for track-day use only. Cost is $1.2 million. Can-Am was arguably one of the greatest racing ...

This is not a continuation. This is an all-new, old Lotus. Pray silence for the arrival of the Type 66, a 1970 project that never saw the light of day. Until now. Wind the clock back 53 years ...

The long-time-coming result is a V8 known as the Type 66 – and only 10 of them are being built. Chapman assigned the design task to Team Lotus draughtsman Geoff Ferris, who was already focussing ...