This is as I recall: 1) The car WAS in the grounds of the Lotus factory but could not be sold or moved because Lotus didn't own it... but that the original owners never claimed it back when the company went under. 2) It is no longer there and has been crushed since the photos were taken by Dave Howarth all that time ago (some years). Apparently there were several prototypes at the Lotus factory and all were written off deliberately (not being road-worthy in the first place!) by the workers at Lotus. I do not know how true this is. There were several prototypes i believe, and I look out for the following when identifying them: 1) the wheels 2) the slidey windows 3) the lack of louvers 4) the handbrake position in the later prototypes. 5) the positioning of the side running lights - they were flush with the fascias originally 6) the wing mirrors 7) the front cowling around the air intake ...that's just off the top of my head. Martin Robert Rooney wrote: > I think that the car had a fuctional Citroen 4 cylinder engine, but I > don't know how it was mounted (rear like the current PRV-6 or > transverse-ish like the Fiat prototype used to test the engine