Lotus Evora made its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show. The new sports car will go into production in the first-quarter of 2009 with U.S. deliveries to begin in November or December of next year. Lotus will keep the production to a low 2000 units annually.
With the Esprit, Lotus entered the modern supercar market for the first time. It’s exotic shape was good enough to extend production from 1976 all the way to 2004.
Featured in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, Roger Moore showcased the Esprit’s performance by eluding a chasing helicopter. Unlike the Astons of Bond’s past, the Lotus transformed into a submarine and jumped into the sea.
The first all-new Lotus since the iconic Elise made its debut in 1995, The Evora enters the sports car market as currently the world’s only mid-engined 2+2. Powered by a Lotus-tuned 3.5-litre V6 engine producing 280 PS, and weighing just 1350 kg (prototype specification), the Evora promises breathtaking performance. During preliminary testing around the famous Nürburgring, the Lotus chassis engineers report that it is extremely agile and great fun to drive - even when clad with the full development disguise that hid the beautiful lines from the prying motor-industry paparazzi.
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Spyker and Lotus today announced that they have reached an agreement to cooperate on Parts and Platform Commonality Agreement (PPCA) and a Parts and Accessories Supply Agreement. As a part of the agreement Lotus would provide certain parts for Spyker’s new C8 Aileron supercar and a concept Design and Engineering Agreement to all future Spyker models.
Both said that their main objective of the cooperation is to reduce the increasing costs of parts and components by sharing technology.
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Introducing the Supercharged Elise SC, the newest addition to the 2008 Lotus line-up.
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