LOTUS ELETRE R
You know the deal by now. Moving over to electric car is a necessity. You might agree for the sake ofthe planet or you might think it’s all a big scam and they’re actually worse but the government has spoken and that’sthat. The industry is getting more and more electric with each new model and all you can do is rant angrily on social media.
If there’s one vehicle among all of them that’s guaranteed to wind up those with a child-slavery-in-Bolivia-or-something stance on EVs, it’s the Lotus Eletre. ‘Simplify then add lightness,’ said Lotus mastermind Colin
Chapman, and EVs are heavy. Not only that, it’s an SUV. An SUV! Blazes…
Chapman also said something along the lines of ‘adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.’ And here we are in a Lotus SUV with, get ready for this, 905bhp. Not a misprint. Nine hundred and five. We’re pretty sure this is the most powerful production 4x4 we’ve ever seen, and aside from the occasional billionaire level hypercar it must be among the most powerful cars full stop. It has 905bhp, and 726lbf.ft, and it weighs 2640kg. Not a great deal of lightness added there, then.
Read the full article in the February issue of Overlander 4x4 -
https://shop.assignmentmedia.co.uk/issue/4x4202502
