Russell Carr is a British car designer and was appointed head of design of

Lotus Cars Lotus Cars Limited is a British automotive company headquartered in Norfolk, England which manufactures sports cars and racing cars noted for their light weight and fine handling characteristics. Lotus was previously involved in Formula On ...

in 2014.

Career

Russell studied Industrial Design transportation at

Coventry Polytechnic Coventry University is a Public university, public research university in Coventry, England. The origins of Coventry University can be linked to the founding of the Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry School of Design in 1843. It was known ...

, graduating in 1988. He started work at the Coventry-based MGA Developments before he joined Lotus in 1990 and worked on a number of projects before being appointed head of design in November 2014, replacing

Donato Coco Donato Coco is an Italian car designer born in Foggia, Italy in 1956. He is known for designing automobiles for Citroën, but even more well-known for designing some of Ferrari's recent cars. Coco was Lotus Head of Design from 2009 to November 20 ...

. When the Chinese

Geely Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co., Ltd (ZGH), commonly known as Geely (吉利 "auspicious"), is a Chinese multinational automotive company headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The company is privately held by Chinese billionaire entreprene ...

acquired Lotus in 2017, Carr remained in charge of sports car design, but reporting to

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, who he previously worked with in the late 1980s at MGA.

Designs

Lotus Esprit The Lotus Esprit is a British sports car that was built by Lotus Cars at their Hethel#Lotus Cars, Hethel factory in England between 1976 and 2004. It was among the first of designer Giorgetto Giugiaro's polygonal "folded paper" designs. Backgr ...

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Lotus Europa S The Lotus Europa S (Type 121) is a two-seat mid-engine sports car, designed to be a more toned down and comfortable variant of the driver focused Lotus Elise and its derivative, the Exige. The Europa S is a modern version of the Europa line of t ...

Lotus Evija The Lotus Evija is a limited production electric sports car to be manufactured by British automobile manufacturer Lotus Cars. Unveiled in July 2019, it is the first electric vehicle to be introduced and manufactured by the company. Codenamed "Typ ...

Lotus Emira The Lotus Emira is a sports car manufactured by British automobile manufacturer Lotus Cars. It is intended to be the firm's final vehicle powered by an internal combustion engine. History The Emira was launched at Hethel, England o6th July 20 ...

Lotus Evora The Lotus Evora is a sports car produced by British car manufacturer Lotus. The car, which was developed under the project name ''Project Eagle'', was launched on 22 July 2008 at the British International Motor Show. The Evora S was launched i ...

References

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