Lotus meeting in Barga

A bright fresh morning in Barga with the sound of the birds singing in the trees and the temperature gradually rising.  From afar comes a new sound,  a low hum  which gradually gets louder the closer it comes until with a deep  roar around the corner comes  in to view 16 high performance sports cars.  The Lotus meeting in barga was off and running.

As you can hear in the interview below with the assessore of tourism -  Gabriele Giovannetti, this was a  meeting of the Lotus owners club on a regional level with talks underway for organising a larger meeting on a national level here in Barga.

Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports and racing cars based at the former site of RAF Hethel, a World War II airfield in Norfolk. The company designs and builds race and production automobiles of light weight and fine handling characteristics. It also owns the engineering consultancy Lotus Engineering, which has facilities in the United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia and China.

The company was formed as Lotus Engineering Ltd. by engineer Colin Chapman, a graduate of University College, London, in 1952. The car maker built tens of thousands of successful racing and road cars and won the Formula One World Championship seven times. – source