It's a triangle within a circle, British Racing Green on schoolbus yellow, with a scramble of the founder's initials — Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman — above the simple, arcing letters that spell Lotus. To many of us teethed on R-compound pacifiers, the sight of this badge sets the imagination racing. It's easy to visualize a young Jim Clark wringing every last ounce of grip from a Lotus-Cortina, or Mario at the height of his Formula 1 powers with the John Player Special Lotus 79, victory wreath around his neck and spraying Moët like a firefighter. Or to remember the first time you saw a Europa or Elan on the street, and marveled at just how absolutely pocket-sized and low-slung it was.