RE: 'Evija' name confirmed for Lotus EV hypercar

[Tuna]

rockin said:

That's odd - my holding deposit on one of the "promised but never got made" Lotus vapour cars was returned in full.

Which one? I was caught up in the collapse of Haydon-Daytune.

[anonymous-user]

My deposit was with long term Lotus dealer Bell & Colvill for a "new Esprit" and was thankfully returned unscathed.

i had a similar experience with a deposit down for a "new Corvette" with then sole UK supplier Bauer Millett in Manchester. After 12 months and no car in sight I gave up and got my deposit back - importing a car from USA instead. Bauer Millett subsequently went bust...

[rallycross]

Elite
Elan
Elan +2
Europa (that one would not go down so well in these Brexit times!)
Eclat
Elite v2
Esprit
Excel
Elan v2 fwd (there was a Malaysian or Korean version of this, one of my car dealer mates had a yellow one in his showroom for years and they never could sell it - what was that called?)
Etna - now you hear about, it now you see it, now it never existed
Elise (I think this is their master piece to date)
Evora
Now we have something that sounds a bit like an E-Vigazlle and is fully electric.

[SpudLink]

Ikemi said:

Good point!

If you flip the model lettering, it reads ‘alive’!

That will be for when Richard Hammond is upside down in the field.
(Sorry, it’s the first thought that came to me.)


Really not sure about the name. Or the car. But as others have said, it’s not aimed at existing Lotus fans. It needs to get the attention of the ‘new markets’, who will then spend £250k on a Lotus supercar.

Edited by SpudLink on Saturday 6th July 09:55

[Tuna]

rallycross said:

Elite
Elan
Elan +2
Europa (that one would not go down so well in these Brexit times!)
Eclat
Elite v2
Esprit
Excel
Elan v2 fwd (there was a Malaysian or Korean version of this, one of my car dealer mates had a yellow one in his showroom for years and they never could sell it - what was that called?)
Etna - now you hear about, it now you see it, now it never existed
Elise (I think this is their master piece to date)
Evora
Now we have something that sounds a bit like an E-Vigazlle and is fully electric.

You missed out the Exige and the short-lived Europa S. Also things like the 211 and 311.

If you look at that list, how many firsts are there amongst those cars? Chapman and later Lotus consistently put new technologies, materials and design techniques into their cars - stuff that the mainstream manufacturers simply cannot do. The Evija is completely in that tradition, though we don't know yet how much is Lotus' own work, and what precisely it delivers.