Lotus to go All Electric with New Supercar

Look, as a car, it's great. If it meets the spec targets, it will undoubtedly offer incredible performance, and it will probably sell out with ease and give Lotus a nice little profit in doing so.

But if you look at it as a Lotus, this is quite a letdown. In an era when everyone is churning out 4 figure hybrid and EV hypercars, it would have been incredibly refreshing- and true to the spirit of the brand- to have forgone that with a new Esprit w/ an N/A Cosworth V8, a manual transmission, and sub 3,000lb curb weight. 

This is just meant to be a halo car. I think other EVs from lotus are coming as well. 

I have to say that I really like the looks of this Lotus Halo car and the design of the rear lights around the air flow holes to mimic afterburners on a fighter jet. Very cool.

They still make Lotus’s???

33 minutes ago, balthazar said:

They still make Lotus’s???

Lotus still has one model in the US, and it's the cheapest rear-mid engine sports car currently on sale in the US, I think..the Evora has been around for over a decade now.  They are pretty low key amongst sports car makers..

Hmmmm; 1 generation/a decade old, little in the way of changes, not much effort put in? Reminds me, perhaps, of another car's eerily similar descriptions… what was it?? Oh yes.

The Vega. ? 

Lotus has been sold around to different companies a few times. They finally landed at one with deep pockets.  Deep as in Republic of China deep.... 

4 hours ago, balthazar said:

They still make Lotus’s???

Beat me to it.  

I get this is a low volume thing, but it looks too like a Ferrari 458 and 1 lap around the Nurburgring will deplete the battery.  The 130 people that buy it probably don't care about any of that, but most people don't even know Lotus is still around, and they don't really have any product that people want.  Sports cars as a segment are dying, and that is all these guys have, and they are expensive, it isn' like they are in Mustang or Supra level pricing where they might be able to get a little volume.

10 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

Beat me to it.  

I get this is a low volume thing, but it looks too like a Ferrari 458 and 1 lap around the Nurburgring will deplete the battery.  The 130 people that buy it probably don't care about any of that, but most people don't even know Lotus is still around, and they don't really have any product that people want.  Sports cars as a segment are dying, and that is all these guys have, and they are expensive, it isn' like they are in Mustang or Supra level pricing where they might be able to get a little volume.

Not deplete the battery, just pull back from the full almost 2,000 horsepower. 

17 hours ago, smk4565 said:

Beat me to it.  

I get this is a low volume thing, but it looks too like a Ferrari 458 and 1 lap around the Nurburgring will deplete the battery.  The 130 people that buy it probably don't care about any of that, but most people don't even know Lotus is still around, and they don't really have any product that people want.  Sports cars as a segment are dying, and that is all these guys have, and they are expensive, it isn' like they are in Mustang or Supra level pricing where they might be able to get a little volume.

It is in the same category of MB Vaporware Hypercar thing that has not been made street legal and keeps getting delayed, delayed, delayed and I suspect canceled and refunds issued.

If they actually do deliver the auto, it will be to people in countries that do not have emission rules and by then NO ONE WILL CARE as the hype will be gone from this hyper car as everyone will be focused on this Lotus over a petro guzzling global warming auto that cannot idle at the stop light.

I get the feeling it’s like the new “greased lightning”!

On 7/18/2019 at 1:53 PM, Robert Hall said:

Lotus still has one model in the US, and it's the cheapest rear-mid engine sports car currently on sale in the US, I think..the Evora has been around for over a decade now.  They are pretty low key amongst sports car makers..

They still build some cars I like.