From the outset Colin Chapman had no option but to be obsessive about the weight of his cars. He had no access to the exotic twincam engines used by such…

A new book celebrates one of the greatest engineering minds Britain has produced. Here, in an exclusive extract, we show how design genius Reid Railton became the brains behind Malcolm…

Colin Chapman was a brilliant engineer and a shrewd businessman. But as a new book tells us, the Lotus boss knew how to get what he wanted from people, and…