LOTUS TO UNLEASH BRITAIN’S FASTEST CAR
Lotus to absolve Britain’s fastest car Esprit Superleggera hits 212mph, has sub-three-second 0-60mph, city-limits car aswell set to accompany agency in 2014
The action curve are drawn. The chase to physique Britain’s fastest and a lot of â?¨powerful assembly â?¨car is on. But it’s not McLaren, Bentley or even Aston Martin that aims â?¨to advance the way. It’s Lotus.
During an absolute acquisition at the company’s HQ in Hethel, Norfolk, arch abstruse administrator Wolf Zimmermann told Auto Express of his affairs to physique a flagship Superleggera adaptation â?¨of the next-generation Esprit – and we can appearance you what it will attending like in our absolute images.
Bosses captivated the affair to face critics of the New Era plan, which in June 2010 appear 5 new cars would be launched in 5 years. As able-bodied as acknowledging the flagship Esprit, Lotus apparent affairs for a city-limits car alleged Ethos – to battling the Aston Martin Cygnet â?¨– additional the 2+2 Elite, four-door Eterne and the Elise Evolution.
There was aswell account on the â?¨next Elan, which Lotus says it will put on authority until 2017, if it will alter the Evora. The range-topping Superleggera appearance an upgraded adaptation of the firm’s 562bhp 4.8-litre V8 engine. This generates best ability of 612bhp at 9,000rpm. It will aswell get a appropriate â?¨aluminium physique that promises to be even stronger and lighter than the one in accepted models.
According to Zimmerman, the car will not artlessly be a stripped-out racer for the road, but a â?¨carefully advised change of the accepted Esprit. In fact, the Superleggera will be the fourth archetypal in the range, alongside â?¨the coupé, convertible and a glass-roofed Targa edition.
Based on projected abstracts for the accepted car, the Superleggera could dart from 0-60mph in beneath three seconds, and â?¨hit a top acceleration of 212mph.
A seven-speed dual-clutch semi-automatic gearbox will action accelerated shifts, while an electro-â?¨hydraulic power-steering arrangement will accord the disciplinarian as abundant ‘feel’ as possible. “This car will not be like the McLaren MP4-12C,” said Zimmermann. “It will be acknowledgment â?¨– there will be added emotion.”
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