Lotus Evora: planning a high-performance variant

In a few months has seen radical change in his condition, from the car now "doomed" as a model still under development. The Lotus Evora will in fact also available in ultra-sports version, much more powerful than today's S 350 hp and with numerous updates to the technical department to refine the driving dynamics.

According to Auto Express wrote, informed by the usual deep gorge, the Toyota 3.5-liter V6 from the benefit of a supercharger and thereby reach 400 hp, while the interventions will make the frame more immediate and sincere dynamic behavior.

• Rumormill: Lotus planning hardcore Evora racer-for-the-road (10/07/2011)
• Desperate Housewives Lotus Evora product placement (22/05/2011)
• Video: Fifth Gear tracks Porsche 911 Carrera against Lotus Evora S (23/05/2011)
• First Drive: 2011 Lotus Evora S (09/06/2011)
• 2011 Lotus Evora S first drive (09/06/2011)

Lotus Evora (homepage)  Lotus Evora (wikipedia)  

Lotus Exige in Frankfurt

Lotus continues to amaze, with the announcement of the presentation at the Frankfurt Motor Show 2011 in a rally car derived from the current Exige, now reached the end of his career because of emissions regulations. As reported by CarMagazine, the new model will be produced in 300 copies vehicles required for the approval of the racing version, will sell to customers that Lotus sports for several years, thanks to the introduction of the GT category, Elise and Exige are in fact some were converted for use in road racing.

• Report: Lotus planning Exige-based rally car for Frankfurt (30/06/2011)
• Lotus to stop production of US-spec Elise/Exige (09/06/2011)
• Lotus ending production of NA-spec Elise/Exige in August (13/06/2011)
• Lotus chases to make Esprit more 'authentic' (19/06/2011)
• Lotus ending production of NA-spec Elise/Exige in August (07/06/2011)

Lotus Exige (homepage)  Lotus Exige (wikipedia)  

Lotus possible sale to Toyota

Lotus could abandon the current Malaysian property and enter into a joint venture with a large manufacturer such as Toyota, which already supplies engines to the British home. In an interview with Inside Line, Dany Bahar has assumed this important change to meet the costs of future technological developments related to the containment of consumption and emissions with a view to increase production up to about 8000 units per year, one third of such as targeting the U.S..