Windle left school at 16 and initially owned cheap cars, but a love of body engineering, a talent for computer-aided design and an appetite for work propelled him up the ranks.
Windle reckons his previous work on sports cars of all kinds just makes him more passionate about preserving Lotus’s unique values.
Windle is the fourth man to have led Lotus since Geely bought a majority stake in May 2017, after Jean-Marc Gales, Feng Qingfeng and Phil Popham.