350-hp SC 2011 Lotus Evora

If Lotus shown from its new Evora, the LA Auto Show in November, the director of engineering Roger Becker made it clear that the car was to be seen, they were just the beginning. Lotus never been a society with the necessary resources for the development of entirely new cars a few years ago. In its place, a car to design, develop, and within 10-20 years. The first car with a 3.5 L naturally aspirated V6 with the streets this spring, with 276 hp.

A couple years from now things of a compressor Lotus in the valley between the cylinder banks of the pump to about 350 hp. This should be sufficient to achieve the upper end of the order of 160 mi / h to 175 mph, before this happens, however, are the children in Hethel something that is not in a Lotus for many years - an automatic transmission - especially among the Americans, too lazy to change. A roadster version is also in preparation, and the coach that the Lotus Evora equipped with hard top. Given the size of Lotus' new 2 +2, which will be interesting to see whether all the hardware stuff in Evora coupe without destroying the surprising beauty.