Lotus on Tuesday unveiled a brand new mid-engine sports activities automobile known as the Emira as its "final hurrah" with inner combustion engine
Lotus on Tuesday unveiled a brand new mid-engine sports activities automobile known as the Emira as its “final hurrah” with inner combustion engines earlier than the famed luxurious automaker transitions to electrical autos.
The Emira will go on sale subsequent spring beginning at underneath $85,141 (72,000 euros), in accordance with Lotus. It can function a prime pace of 180 mph and hit 62 mph in lower than 4.5 seconds, the corporate stated.
“The Emira is a game-changer for Lotus. It stands as a beacon of every thing now we have achieved to this point within the transformation of the enterprise, the embodiment of our progress,” Matt Windle, managing director of Lotus, stated in an announcement. “It’s a extremely important milestone on our path to changing into a very world efficiency automobile model.”
The Emira is the primary new Lotus underneath the corporate’s”Imaginative and prescient80″ transformation plan via its 80th anniversary in 2028. That features plans to promote solely electrical vehicles by then.
The automobile’s smooth, but aggressive, design was impressed by the greater than $2 million Lotus Evija EV, in accordance with the corporate, which is owned by China-based Geely.
The automobile will probably be powered by a 3.5-litre V-6 engine from Toyota Motor or a 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine from Mercedes-Benz’s efficiency AMG unit. It can supply as much as 400 horsepower, with a most torque of about 317 foot-pounds, in accordance with Lotus.