Danny Bahar (Former Ferrari), taking full advantage of his new position of head of Lotus, has major plans to change Lotus's image as tiny pocket-rocket-super-car-track-monster. And he's going all out to achieve it.
Enter, Lotus Elite.
This here, is a front engined, 2+2 coupe which is quite capable of rivaling the Aston Martin DB9.
Lotus has always used Toyota-sourced engines in its USDM imports, and that hasn't changed. But now, Lotus is getting the best Toyota's got, a certain 5.0L V10 that makes 610 hp @ 8100 rpm, that just also happens to be in the LFA. Most of us would agree that the LFA engine would be perfect. But no, that wasn't good enough for Lotus. So they decided to supercharge it. And add integrated electric motors. And a F1-style KERS regeneration system. All this tech will get the Elite from 0-62 in the neighborhood of 3.5 seconds.
And all of that goodness can be yours for a mere $180,000 USD.
*Images from www.topgear.com/uk
This is definitely a dream car I'd work hard towards.
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