A Lotus SUV Is Coming To Give The Porsche Macan A Kicking

Lotus has confirmed that it's working on an SUV to tackle the likes of the Porsche Macan, and it wants the car to be the best-handling in its class...
A Lotus SUV Is Coming To Give The Porsche Macan A Kicking

Lotus is planning an SUV to fight the Maserati Levante and Porsche Macan, and these designs have just been filed with patent authorities.

Billed from the off as the best-handling sports-SUV of the three, which would be some achievement, Lotus says it wants the car to go around bends “like nothing else in its segment.”

A Lotus SUV Is Coming To Give The Porsche Macan A Kicking

But just when you were thinking this might be a Lotus that’s actually all-new for once, we have to put a pin in that bubble. Geely-owned Lotus will take most of the new car’s key parts from stablemate Volvo.

Lotus CEO Jean-Marc Gales – who’s now back behind the wheel – confirmed that the Lotess-you-vee will be built from parts nicked from beneath the XC60 and XC90, which share the same modular structure.

A Lotus SUV Is Coming To Give The Porsche Macan A Kicking

Reading between the lines that means four cylinders only for the premium soft-roader, but at least the ‘twin-engine’ T8 plug-in hybrid drivetrain coughs up 401bhp. You can expect that to increase once Lotus’ engineers have whipped their tuning tools out.

The designs filed for patent applications look kinda Jaguar-ish from the front and surprisingly Ferrari-like from the back, although the bum-end styling clearly comes from the likes of the Exige and Evora.

A Lotus SUV Is Coming To Give The Porsche Macan A Kicking

Production is currently set to start in late 2021. Production of the £60,000-£70,000 car will be split across two locations with one said to be China and the other dependant on the outcome of Brexit negotiations.

Source: Autocar

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Comments

Will Tasillo

It’s a mini Urus!!!!

03/20/2018 - 12:52 |
6 | 1
ferrarman11

At least this is a change from the all the “new” cars they’ve been releasing like every week lol

03/20/2018 - 12:53 |
24 | 6
AAA Insurance

So much for “simplify, then add lightness”.

03/20/2018 - 12:53 |
144 | 1

Colin Chapman is turning in his grave…
IN FLAMES

03/20/2018 - 13:24 |
84 | 31
Sir Wafel (WhyBeAre of CT) (Multipla Squad) (propane)

In reply to by AAA Insurance

You can stll do that to SUV

03/20/2018 - 15:20 |
3 | 3

Simplify, then add ride height?

03/20/2018 - 19:21 |
2 | 0

If they didn’t start to branch out they would be gone within 20 years.

03/20/2018 - 19:41 |
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03/20/2018 - 19:45 |
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Anonymous

I hope, it becomes a good SUV.

03/20/2018 - 12:54 |
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Anonymous

This should be a game changer for Lotus! Maybe now they’ll actually have money to make actual new cars, not just copy pasting their existing cars…

03/20/2018 - 12:55 |
10 | 2
FLixy Madfox

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Preach my duxe

03/20/2018 - 14:17 |
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Sudip Suresh

guys its time to accept the fact that suvs are our supreme rulers

all hail the suv’s

03/20/2018 - 12:55 |
2 | 7
03/20/2018 - 14:12 |
2 | 0
Anonymous

Nooooo!

03/20/2018 - 13:01 |
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ᴶᵘˢᵗᴬᴿᵃⁿᵈᵒá

Lotus,no. Stick to one-off lightweight track cars,please

edit: On second thoughts go on,keep it up

03/20/2018 - 13:02 |
19 | 3

And go bankrupt? These cars don’t sell

03/20/2018 - 15:22 |
3 | 1
ThatMercFan🅱️oi (EDM ftw) (Likes Aventadors) (O

I hope that this is some early April fools joke.

03/20/2018 - 13:05 |
2 | 0
BIG BORB

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03/20/2018 - 13:07 |
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