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Auch der Mitsubishi Tercel II zeigte sich modern mit einer Doppelquerlenker-Konstruktion

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Some rumors have persisted that the MR2 was designed by Lotus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Cars). This is a reference to the Lotus M90 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_M90) (a.k.a. the X100) project, but this was scrapped after a single prototype was built. This used the same engine and gearbox as the MR2. At the time, Toyota, along with the Chapman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Chapman) family was a major share holder in Lotus, but General Motors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors) later acquired majority control. However, the MR2's suspension and handling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_handling) were designed by Toyota with the help of Lotus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Cars) engineer Roger Becker.^[4] Toyota's cooperation with Lotus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_%28car%29) during the prototype phase can be seen in the AW11, and it owes much to Lotus's legendary sports cars of the 1960s and 1970s.

The reason I'm e-mailing you is I thought you might be interested in knowing that the MKI first generation Mr2 is actually an abandoned Lotus model that was then sold to Toyota and redesigned for metric and mass production by Lotus. I have the proof. The Mr2 real name is the Lotus X100.
When I learned this I called Group Lotus in England and spoke to a public relations fellow who said he would answer my question off the record and say yes but would deny anything out of respect for Toyota. The deal they made in 1984 was to never divoulge any info that this was an actual Lotus(British) design for fear no one would purchase such a vehical, British cars had major problems at the time.