Lotus announces a model that should be released very soon: the Lotus Emira. The new sports car previously went through life under the working name Lotus Type 131 and will be the last Lotus powered purely by a combustion engine.
The Emira is a step lower on the ladder than the most recent car we saw from Lotus, the Evija. Although the Emira will remain with dark teasers for the time being and we have only seen prototypes of the Evija, the external similarities are clear. For example, the cars share a low supercar profile and the high, narrow headlights of the Evija are very similar to what we now see from the Emira viewers.
However, everything is different under the skin. Where the Evija is an EV, the Emira is emphatically not. The new model is not even a hybrid, but will ‘just’ get a combustion engine from Lotus. For the last time, the brand reports: the Emira is the last new Lotus that is not electrified.
The engines come from a new partner, a car manufacturer that is not yet mentioned by name. Lotus does report that one of the two available engines has a new shape for Lotus, is ‘very efficient’ and very modern. Lotus now owns Geely, so that gives us food for thought. Within its own concern we find Volvo, for example, but Geely previously announced a partnership with the French Alpine, Renault.
Lotus describes the Emira as a car that combines classic Lotus values ​​with the comfort, luxury and technology that today’s market demands. Whether the car is still able to please the usually fairly uncompromising Lotus enthusiast, we have to wait and see. It doesn’t have to take long, by the way: Lotus will pull the curtain off the Emira on 6 July.
