{"id":813038,"date":"2026-10-25T03:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813038\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T03:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:06:13","slug":"lotus-cars-opens-its-doors-to-mark-60-years-of-trade-in-hethel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/813038\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Cars opens its doors to mark 60 years of trade in Hethel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lotus Cars has opened the doors of its manufacturing site to the public as it celebrated 60 years of the brand being based in a village.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company said about 1,600 people attended its event on Saturday at its site at Hethel, Norfolk, with all ticket proceeds going to the Priscilla Bacon Hospice Charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sports car firm, which was founded in the 1950s and moved to Norfolk in the 1960s, provided James Bond&#8217;s underwater car in The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Clive Chapman, whose father Colin Chapman founded Lotus, said: &#8220;To open up the factory site, which really is a centre of modern engineering excellence to so many people today, is just terrific.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added: &#8220;The guys at Classic Team Lotus have prepared 16, Formula 1 cars. As you can imagine, that is a bit of a challenge.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lotus Cars has opened the doors of its manufacturing site to the public as it celebrated 60 years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-813038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}