New Esprit

[Matty]

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new- ... ercar-2028

Question is, how many people will pay £150k for a Lotus compared to the competition? Because that's what it's likely to be, given the Emira is £100k now.

[mik]

Interesting. Will be good to see (although given how much the competition charges for the power levels that are being mentioned, I think even £150k may be optimistic. Noble ask £150k for their non-hybrid 550bhp M500, which doesn't even have ABS.....

Flat-plane V8 probably more desirable/appropriate in the supercar market, but cross-plane would have been a great aural differentiator from McLaren/Ferrari. I realise I may be in the minority on that point.

edit: top marks for going with Tippex though

[mik]

evo article suggests 986bhp combined.

[GG.]

evo article suggests 986bhp combined.

Which is exactly 1000PS funnily enough - so just a guess then.

[Matty]

AMG V8, given the recent links I wonder?

The £150k was a guess, based on previous rumours they were making a V8 Emira and wondered if those I'll just end up being a reskinned version with a bigger engine.

Gotta wonder where the market will be if you start coming in well over £200k though. At that point, you're swimming with the big boys, and cars with wobbly trim and bubbly doors won't cut it.

Cant we get an Alpine A110 competitor instead?

[DeskJockey]

I like the look, very fuss-free.

[Mito Man]

Only the rear image is accurate. The front is an Autocar render.

[DeskJockey]

Oh. I will then caveat my statement to that effect. The imagined design looks good.

[mik]

Only the rear image is accurate. The front is an Autocar render.

Weird that they'd do that. The evo article shows a similar-but-different front image too

[Mito Man]

Might as well get it straight from the horse's mouth
https://www.lotuscars.com/en-GB/lotus-story
Scroll down a bit but clicking 'explore' doesn't open anything new for me.
Looks reassuringly expensive, carbon fibre chassis/body, carbon brakes. That's £250k+

[RobYob]

FTA "No price has been revealed, but Feng singled out the 849 Testarossa as its main rival, suggesting a figure close to the Ferrari’s entry price of £407,617."

It could be the most beautiful, most dynamically pleasing and most well built Lotus of all time and I have every confidence in the management at Hethel snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Again, again, again.

[Matty]

£400k? I mean, their Evija was a massive success so I'm expecting people will be queueing out the door for a £400k Lotus, given how brilliantly they handled the Emira release as well, with barely any quality control issues and exemplary PR and communcations with customers.

[Gavin]

It does look like the concept cars of the future, from my childhood.

[jamcg]

It does look like the concept cars of the future, from my childhood.

1986 corvette Indy

[ZedLeg]

I’ve never seen that before, obviously where the catfish Camaro came from.