Lola T120

Lola Cars

MarqueLola Cars
Power260-280 hp

The Lola T120 is one of the Lola Cars entries the open record knows by name, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable. Its designer of record is Eric Broadley.

The background

The Lola T120, also known as the BMW G767, was a Group 7 sports prototype race car, designed, developed and built by British manufacturer Lola, specifically to compete in hill climb racing, in 1967. It was powered by a unique 2-liter, 16-valve, four-cylinder engine, designed by Ludwig Apfelbeck, to produce between 260 and 280 hp @ 8500 rpm, and was itself based on the M10 engine.

The engineering

it is rated at 260-280 hp. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.

Where it sits

Where it sits in Lola Cars's history is not in doubt: the Lola Mk1 came before it; the Lola T210 followed it. Its Lola Cars stablemates include the Hill GH1 and the Lola B02/50.

Specifications

DesignerEric Broadley
PredecessorLola Mk1
SuccessorLola T210
Catalogue IDQ114565962
SourceWikipedia