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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Anonymous

I hope I was blind so I don’t know what’s happening. (sry for bad english)

03/20/2018 - 15:20 |
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RodriguezRacer456 (Aventador SV) (Lambo Squad)

WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

03/20/2018 - 15:51 |
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ITS TIME TO STOP!!!

03/20/2018 - 19:01 |
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White Comet

just another SUV like every other SUV out there.
But if this means to give them more cash to keep working on real sport cars, sure.

03/20/2018 - 15:52 |
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Griffin Mackenzie

Nobody wants this

03/20/2018 - 16:12 |
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SirJamjaxIsGoingAgain-PeaceOutChaps

The rear end has been outright pinched from a Fezzer FF

03/20/2018 - 16:16 |
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Anonymous

Great

03/20/2018 - 16:37 |
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Miru

Nyeeeah, I actually kinda like it, but it looks like a Charger from the rear with FF’s rear lights put in and from the front it looks like a squished F-Pace

03/20/2018 - 17:42 |
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Anonymous

Oh no…
That´s what we get for demanding a new car.
I´d much rather see another 4471238461238745 slightly modified versions and special editions than a SUV from them.

03/20/2018 - 18:09 |
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Haley 1

I feel like if you can afford a lotus, don’t get an SUV. But then again, if you have that kinda money, go for it

03/20/2018 - 18:17 |
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Mr. Fox

So, when the car actually comes out it’ll be have the size and weight of a Hot Hatch?

03/20/2018 - 18:36 |
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