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With Team Lotus currently standing third in the Formula One Driver’s World Championship, it’s an appropriate time for Corgi to start a collection of Lotus sports and racing cars. Corgi presents the Lotus Team collection, a series of 1:43 scale diecast model cars. Each model carries an authentic Lotus livery and comes complete with a collector card with info details, all packed in a neat plastic case. At present the collection includes Lotus F1 cars from the 2012 and 2013 seasons, plus the Lotus Evora road car. There are several colour schemes for this - the one shown here echoes the red-gold-white Gold Leaf Team Lotus markings used in the late 1960s. For more than 60 years, British car manufacturer Lotus has been designing and building leading edge sports and racing cars, the first of which was built in 1948, in North London by founder Colin Chapman. A founding Chapman principle was ‘performance through light weight’, and Lotus continues this aim from its design and build HQ, based on ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of 'America's sports car’, the Chevrolet Corvette, so the organizers of Automodellismo 2013 have made the tasty sportster star of the show. As planned, there will be a display of full-size Corvettes outside the venue, while inside there will be a Corvette-based competition. Racing cars There’ll be plenty more auto models of course, not least being the Formula One display, last seen at Model Kraft in nearby Milton Keynes. UK event Automodellismo 2013 will be held at Hanslope Village Hall, near Milton Keynes, UK. For anyone in reach, it’ll be a great day-long event. To whet your appetite, here are a couple more Corvette pix. Cameras at the ready As ever in the UK, the weather is a variable, but don’t forget to bring your camera, as even if it’s wet outside, there'll be hundreds of model cars to admire indoors. For more info visit Automodellismo here .