Lotus was made famous by a certain British secret agent, but in the past decade the company seriously faltered as financial troubles plagued the once-profitable firm. Lately however they've been bouncing back with a vengeance, producing small, light and very fast cars that are making Lotus a hallowed name once again.

Feast your eyes on this never seen footage of Lotus' most powerful production car, the new 3-Eleven, smoking all kinds of 911s at Nurburgring.