Lotus has accomplished back the Elise was built-in 13 years ago and is the alpha of our adventurous 5 year cardinal business plan; a plan which includes the addition of three new cars, as able-bodied as avant-garde new technologies to abounding added markets about the world.

Designed for greater circadian driveability and positioned aloft the Elise, Exige S and Europa models, the new Evora will authority added affluence comforts in a beyond chassis. Designed with detail, elegance, and passion, this approaching car reflects a alloy of seamless architecture cues, abstruse excellence, and accomplished active dynamics.

Underpinned by Lotus’s Versatile Vehicle Architecture technology, alms an adaptable, acutely strong, annealed and failing chassis, the Evora weighs just 1350kg. With a 3.5 litre V6 engine, it’s able of 0-100 km/h in just 5 seconds. Beneath this design, the roof and physique panels are stress-bearing and absorbed anon to the anatomy allowance the Evora accomplish its bashful 1,350kg kerb weight.

Front and mid engine installations accept been considered, as able-bodied as amalgam and Electric Vehicle (EV) applications. Foreground tyres are 225/40 ZR 18 and the rears are 255/35 ZR 19, with Yokohama accepting supplied a elastic different to Lotus for this application. Stopping adeptness is catered for by aerial discs foreground and rear, 350 mm and 332 mm in bore respectively.

Lotus Absorption Ascendancy - the Switchable Lotus Absorption Ascendancy (LTC) arrangement has been developed accompanying with the ABS and works through the engine administration arrangement to abate ability if appropriate to advance traction. Unlike abounding absorption ascendancy systems, LTC has been acquainted to accompaniment the abilities of the disciplinarian after demography over.

During basic testing about the acclaimed N rburgring chase track, the Lotus anatomy engineers address that it is acutely active and abundant fun to drive - even if clad with the abounding development beard that hid the admirable curve from the prying motor-industry paparazzi.

Performance enhancements are accessible through a Sport backpack that boosts the Evora’s burke acknowledgment and redline and add a sports traction-control mode, a sports diffuser, a titanium exhaust, cross-drilled anchor discs and added oil cooler. Perhaps we’ll see a few added refinements in approaching Lotus models, as the adjustment book already looks like a who’s who of celebrity car buffs? Performance will be animated with the 0-62mph dart accomplished in about 5 abnormal and a top acceleration of 160mph. But if that’s not abundant to get your beating antagonism don’t anguish - rumours advance that as able-bodied as the convertible variant, a added able supercharged adaptation is beneath development also.

Lotus proudly addendum the block is ample abundant to absorb a set of golf clubs, which seems to be the industry’s accepted accepted for defining block space. Lotus says that the Evora can calmly board two 6ft 5in alpine American males in the foreground seats. The Evora will be accessible as a 2 and 4 seater sports car.

Can’t delay to analysis drive the new Lotus Evora? Able-bodied if you can’t delay until the barrage in April 2009, yield a basic analysis drive with Gran Turismo. Lotus has a abiding accord with Polyphony, the game’s Japanese developer, with Lotus cars actualization in anniversary absolution of the Bafta award-winning Gran Turismo series. Now, acknowledgment to the new title’s aberrant accuracy (enabled by the ultra-powerful PlayStation3 system), Gran Turismo drivers will acquisition their basic ride in the new Lotus Evora to be startlingly agnate to the absolute affair giving Lotus admirers a beaker of what to apprehend afore the abounding sized Evora is accessible to test-drive for absolute in Spring 2009.