Fuck. Lotus comes with a SUV

Posted on 06-03-2015 at 18:14 by MauritsH – 39 Comments”

In this world, than nothing at all sacred?!

No, of course not. As long as the auditor continues to whine about deficits on the balance sheet will be there also somewhere money should be drawn. And where do you do that in 2015? On the Crossover/SUV market. Because fuck your own brand values and heritage.

Since the eccentricities of Dany Bahar, who bit the floor could use a swipe with a bit of very supercarland, we take such announcements from Lotus, however, with a grain of salt. Did Jean-Marc Gales a half years ago, all statements about a possible SUV, which he during the last fair in Geneva yet again repeated.

There must be money to be made, because Lotus Cars is not very bright. On the other hand will be a SUV of course, not entirely consistent with the rest of the Lotus range, though we have multiple examples over of quasi-suvs that are good from the feet were on asphalt. The brand is aimed at an agile and nice driving SUV, which the class for once by the head and ass grabs.

Of course, these are not the statements to be true lovers of cars when the Evora 400, or the Exige S happy, not to mention about Colin Chapman himself. At least, that we will guess, based on his famous quotes.

Forget the whole SUV-story not, however, what, for example, the Cayenne for Porsche has done. Without the successful and profitable SUV we had, perhaps, no Cayman GT4 or 991 GT3 RS had. In addition, you will hear, more than 10 years after its introduction, virtually no meow about brand identity and erfgoedbladiebla.

Anyway, we shall see. Lotus has the world already huddled the cane in sent, so we view the developments with appropriate pessimism.

Photo: Lotus Exige S via autojunk.