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Official Lotus Cars License for Assetto Corsa
Kunos Simulazioni is thrilled to “add lightness” to Assetto Corsa by announcing a new licensing agreement with Lotus Cars with the following press release.
If you ask any track day enthusiast, which automobile maker best represents the spirit grass roots motorsport, of driving your car to a circuit, racing it and then driving it back home again, the most common reply you will get is: “Lotus”.
Lotus has been one of the most prolific car manufacturers in motorsports history. Founder Colin Chapman did not limit his activities to Formula One racing, on the contrary, they have spread across the whole range of motorsports with a particular attention to privateer enthusiasts. Starting from the amazing Lotus 7, an affordable small sports car that weighed as much as motorbikes of the era, the legendary Lotus Cortinas, Elites, Elans of the 1960′s, the Esprit of the 1980′s, and their benchmark track day cars of today like the Lotus Elise and Exige, up to their new challenge for the future, the beautiful Lotus Evora.
Kunos Simulazioni’s team visit to the Lotus Cars headquarters, in Hethel, UK, was an important milestone for the development of Assetto Corsa. A unique occasion to test on the Lotus test circuit the new production cars of the brand that will be included in Assetto Corsa. Marco Massarutto, Licensing&Project manager of Kunos Simulazioni, has commented:
Lotus Cars total support to our team, gives us the possibility to express our potential at its best and this is priceless. Having the opportunity to drive those cars on track, study their handling and characteristics and talk with the engineers of one of the most advanced R&D department in automotive world, makes us feel honoured, humbled and even more determined to raise the realism level of our racing simulator in order to do justice to the excellence of Lotus engineering.
Assetto Corsa will include some of the most exciting models created by Lotus Cars from the past and present, as well as containing the new generation of Lotus machines expected in the near future. All recreated as faithfully as possible.
Assetto Corsa is a new DirectX 11 based racing game for Windows, expected to be released in 2012. Assetto Corsa is being designed to provide a very realistic driving experience, with single player and multiplayer options, officially licensed cars and tracks developed using Laser scan technology, and the highest level of accuracy possible in reproducing real world motor racing environments.
Also, Assetto Corsa will allow for considerable customisation and modification, in order to satisfy the expectations of professional simracers, gamers who prefer to approach the driving experience more progressively, and hobbyists who just like to collect lots of cars and tracks.
For more information about this upcoming simulation visit our popular Assetto Corsa forums or the Assetto Corsa website
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Assetto Corsa keeps on getting better with each press release.
Yummie!!!
looks like real life to me, seriously going to be better then i am expecting… i have the giggles.
For every simulation/game-engine Colin’s heritage is the best partner you can have.
Well done
Lotus is the whore of the racing world.
So because Lotus are supporting various sim racing games with normal license fees they are the whore now, really?
I applaud them for embracing the sim racing community and they are a great example of how things also can be arranged when it comes to licensing and exposure. The so called triple A brands that dare to charge ridiculous fees to be in a sim racing or a simcade title will eventually regret their stubborn behavior.
There is now an entire generation of young gamers growing up with the idea that one of the coolest supercars ever build is a Nissan GTR as it can be seen in many racing games nowadays. Where do you see proper Ferrari’s, Porsches, Bugattis etc?
Those youngsters will eventually reach the age of 30-45 and when they are successful in life and want to spend their hard earned cash they will buy a Nissan GTR or now maybe a Lotus, Corvette or another car that was easily accessible in racing games. The success of not being so damn strict on licensing games pays off in the future.
Kudos to them
Fair play to them for giving the licence to Assetto Corsa, but it’s not surprising news. They have gotten into a lot of controversy for spreading themselves to thin, it’s not exactly the most elusive of licences
Generally speaking, Lotus has been badly done by some crooked fat cats. It’s a great marque ruined. Chapman would be rolling in his grave, unless he was cremated. Was he?
I believe what Mark’s probably eluding to is the “foreign” ownership of the company. If Lotus is indeed whoring its name, then the same can be said of Ferrari or BMW especially regarding usage in games. But the fact that Ferrari and BMW is still very much Italian and German while Lotus is hardly British. In fact it’s now owned by a Malaysian company, Proton. Yes, the same Malaysia that was one time a British Colony.
So notion that these ex-savages are now in control and are probably have no inkling as to the importance of the name Lotus is probably isn’t far removed from the mind of some people.
“ex-savages” really? I know it’s melodrama and you don’t really mean that, but why throw the term around. It seems out rightly racist.
There’s no room for that on an international forum
@Mikem: such incredible dumb comments we don’t need around a family friendly website. Consider yourself on a 30 day time out for breaching our simple house rules. Racist comments like these are absolutely not tolerated.
I assume he was paraphrasing my comment, I doubt very much he’s racist.
I was talking on the real racing front of Lotus, what with Caterham, Lotus Renault, and now they’re talking about rallying. They’ve been in a lot of lawsuits and there was rumors of their bankruptcy. I didn’t mean to go too much into detail, as it’s just about Lotus in AC, but I just feel that Lotus has taken a bad knock recently and it is good to see them make one, albeit small, good business decision!
Once again, I didn’t want my original comment to be taken seriously
The dream baby is comin true,just a little patience before the sim racing “BOOM”!