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

clean_si_drty_yata

The chr looks good…wait what?

03/20/2018 - 23:10 |
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Daksh Pat

why not make an suv designed for offroad like isnt that why people bought them in the first place?

03/20/2018 - 23:12 |
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LEitner

If this means that suv people pay for my lotus sportscars to be good and competitive, so be it

03/21/2018 - 01:24 |
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Joel Peñaló

Just wait, five years from now they’re not gonna let it die by refreshing it like:

Lotus SUV GT### Cup
Lotus SUV ### Sport
Lotus SUV-Eleven

03/21/2018 - 02:01 |
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Andrew Hawthorne

Lotus is the last company I would expect to see this from

03/21/2018 - 02:49 |
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Sir_Racealot

I can’t stand these couple-shaped SUV’s they’re the worst!!!! Clearly Lotus is looking for a rapid sales boost.

03/21/2018 - 04:03 |
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Anonymous

Groan, more SUV nonesense, Page me when they actually being back the Esprit

03/21/2018 - 07:30 |
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Anonymous

Lamborghini Urus sides, Jaguar-ish front, Ferrari back… they for sure chose good cars to inspire!

03/21/2018 - 07:44 |
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Anonymous

If you buy that car you need money t aa

03/21/2018 - 09:10 |
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Anonymous

Very creative Lotus

03/21/2018 - 10:22 |
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