Make your bets! What is Lotus up to?

Moses7

Here's a new press release they just sent out:

1975 – Lotus Does the Time Warp

1975. Ah what a year (not so for Nixon advisors but hey you can’t please all the people). The Watergate verdicts aside, 1975 was the year we saw Jaws encourage people to stay out of the sea, Margaret Thatcher become the first female leader of the Conservative party and the future face of British football emerge as David Beckham first drew breath.

1975 also marked the birth of another British legend when the Lotus Esprit was officially launched at the Paris Motor Show in October.

Okay, the earth is still spinning around the sun, but wouldn’t you agree that those things happening in 1975 changed the world a bit? Just a little bit?

We do.

And what we also know now is that 35 years later, something breathtaking will happen once again. Once more in Paris. Once more at the Motor Show.

Perhaps a new Esprit? Perhaps not. Or perhaps even more?

Feel free to guess what we’re up to but ultimately you’re going to have to wait and see. One thing is for sure, it’ll be worth the wait.

16.45 CET 30th September 2010, Paris Motor Show. The future starts here.

picture here.


My guess is we'll see a new Esprit, Evora Roadster and something very "green" and fuel efficient.

Neilw

Lexus LFA powered Esprit maybe

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default.asp?storyId=19978

stevenmu

Talk of changing the world pretty much means either hybrid or EV, and like the article mentions Lotus do have links to Tesla.

privateBeavis

Lotus Elise Aqua perhaps

2 Espressi

smash

Surely it's the V6 Exige that's been snapped loads in testing....

alias no.9

Aren't they working on an electric vehicle that's being designed to have a more internal combustion type driving experinece during acceleration and braking and will also mimic downchanges in gears.