Engineer extraordinaire and Lotus boss Matt Windle tells how he rose from a van-building apprenticeship to the Lotus hot seat via Daewoo, Nissan, and Tesla
Nowadays, Windle can’t resist noting how very far that 343 was, dynamically speaking, from the cars that he and Lotus make today.“The Volvo was okay, but I drove it pretty hard and pretty soon killed the gearbox,” he says, “so Dad sorted me out an old Hillman Hunter – definitely the most tragic car I’ve ever owned. It was already old and shabby, so I decided to hand-paint it in Dormobile blue.
Windle’s technical drawing skills meant he picked up computer-aided design quickly, and his artistic eye gave him an ability at surfacing. He built on these skills by enrolling in design engineering courses. “The people who could only draw straight lines went into chassis engineering,” he grins, “while those of us who understood curves and could make great surfaces went into body engineering.”
Fiesta inherited from a stepsister. In fact, the Fiesta was so obviously what an impecunious 20-year-old needed – sensible, economical and reliable – that the relationship couldn’t possibly last.Windle soon swapped it for a black 1987 Ford Orion, a car with greater credentials but in considerably worse condition – especially after it was vandalised. That left holes in the doors where the door locks had been.
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