{"id":505,"date":"2009-12-03T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=505"},"modified":"2009-12-03T07:45:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T15:45:05","slug":"lotus-evora-wins-bbc-top-gear-magazine-sports-car-of-the-year-2009-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/lotus-evora-wins-bbc-top-gear-magazine-sports-car-of-the-year-2009-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Evora Wins BBC Top Gear Magazine Sports Car of the Year 2009 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Lotus-Evora-Front-3qtrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Lotus-Evora-Front-3qtrs-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Lotus Evora Front 3qtrs\" title=\"Lotus Evora Front 3qtrs\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-506\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lotus Evora was selected by Top Gear magazine and online teams as the best Sports Car of the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The Top Gear Awards, now in their 10th year, searched for the most exciting and innovative sports car of this year. The awards are not only well established, but are also truly global, running across 24 international editions and Top Gear websites in the UK, US and Australia. <\/p>\n<p>Conor McNicholas, Editor of BBC Top Gear magazine commented \u201cIt\u2019s pretty, quintessentially British, fast and handles like a dream. Evora takes Lotus to a new place in terms of quality but more importantly delivers a sports car rush that puts other marques to shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dany Bahar, CEO of Group Lotus plc said, &#8220;I am delighted that the Evora has won the Top Gear award for Sports Car of the Year 2009. Top Gear is very well regarded around the world and it is a fantastic achievement for all who have worked on the Evora to win such a prestigious award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dany continued, \u201cI am particularly pleased that the Top Gear team commented on the huge improvements in quality at Lotus, confirming that the Evora is an exciting supercar that can also be used for every day driving.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>This accolade adds to the awards haul for the Evora, which includes:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7               Autocar magazine \u2013 Britain\u2019s Best Driver\u2019s Car 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7               Car magazine \u2013 Performance Car of the Year 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7               European Aluminium Awards 2008 &#8211; Overall Jury Prize &#8211; Lotus Evora Aluminium Structure<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7               EVO magazine \u2013 Car of the Year 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7               iMotor &#8211; Overall Winner &#8211; Most Rated Car of 2008 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lotus Evora was selected by Top Gear magazine and online teams as the best Sports Car of the last 12 months. The Top Gear Awards, now in their 10th year, searched for the most exciting and innovative sports car of this year. The awards are not only well established, but are also truly global, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/03\/lotus-evora-wins-bbc-top-gear-magazine-sports-car-of-the-year-2009-award\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lotus Evora Wins BBC Top Gear Magazine Sports Car of the Year 2009 Award&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,14,1],"tags":[71,97,183,421,544],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-89","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}