
In addition to pulling out no fewer than four new sports cars plus a sedan for display at the Paris auto show, Lotus tucked away this neat little city car on its stand. Called the City Car concept (a possible name for it is Ethos), the generic-looking four-place urban runabout is a range-extending electric vehicle. [...]
Mar 3 2011 | Posted in
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The survival plan for Lotus Cars LLC is nothing if not ambitious, and includes cars not normally associated with this venerable sports-car brand, including a potential city car. More shocking, however, is this Eterne, a front-engined “four-door super saloon” in Lotus-speak. It’s one of a half-dozen new cars hastily shaped under the baton of Donato [...]

It would be easy for Lotus to neglect the sublime Elise in its astonishing barrage of new products; if something’s awesome, why futz with it? But the company’s array of fresh faces (which include the Eterne, Esprit, Elan, and Elite) at the Paris show does include a major makeover for the most well-known current Lotus, [...]
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