2015 Lotus Elise Appears in Paris - With Live Pictures and Video

The new Lotus Elise jumps into entirely new styling territory, not so much evolving from the current model but fully reinventing itself as a baby Esprit. The only similarities are the mid-engine layout driving the rear wheels and 2-seats around corners.

Below, Lotus has been kind enough to provide a nicely-designed chart for your convenience instead of spreading all the car's stats across a 15,000-word press release.

The new baby Lotus will get a standard 6-speed manual (with an optional 7-speed DCT) and be powered by a Toyota 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine putting out 320-horsepower.

If the Elise is putting out that kind of go for a £35,000 [around US$55,500] base price, this is looking to be a bargain basement killer. To make that 320 ponies extra green, it will also offer mild hybrid tech and an optional start/stop system when it comes out in Spring 2015.

By Phil Alex

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Paris Show: Lotus wants to Take on Aston Martin Rapide with New Eterne Sports Saloon

In an attempt to enter the 4-door coupe market, Lotus brought a sedan - you read that right - to the Paris Motor Show. The Eterne is the new Lotus 4-door (other Loti saloons include the 377HP twin-turbocharged Lotus Carlton / Omega of the early 1990s, and they sure are cool); it uses a Lotus-tuned new bad boy engine borrowed from Lexus.

This means that sitting under the hood is a high-output forced-induction 5.0-liter V8. As with the Esprit and Elite, the Eterne will offer optional hybrid power and KERS.

An added bonus is available AWD. The Eterne provides seating for four passengers in an 1,800-kilo package that will cost approximately £120,000 [~ US$190,500 at today's exchange rates] before options.

Clearly Lotus sees a market for a prestigious high-performance 4-door with hybrid power, because Dany Bahar plainly states, "We truly believe that there is a market for the Eterne. There is nothing else like it out there both in terms of design, capacity and performance. The biggest difference between the Eterne and it's class competitors is that it's not an evolution of an existing two-door model, it's a deliberate and considered stand-alone creation. It's the ultimate four door sports car."

Hey, who am I to argue with capitalism? For that money, though, I'd just buy a Fisker Karma and go on a nasty vacation.

By Phil Alex

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Lotus 125 track car to debut at Pebble Beach

Lotus Evora Cup – Click above for high-res image gallery

Lotus will be more active than usual during next week's festivities around the Monterey historic races and Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance. Along with the North American Debuts of the Evora Cup race car (above) and Elise RGB edition, Lotus will give us the world debut of the 125 track car.

The new 125 will be unveiled at the Monterey Motorsports Pre-Reunion at Laguna Seca this weekend and then reappear several times during the week at various events. Lotus hasn't given any hints of what to expect from the 125 other than it will be the ultimate customer track and racing experience. Stay tuned next week as we'll share all the details as soon as we have them.

2010 Lotus Evora Carbon Concept specification

The anatomy panels, roof, diffuser and advanced splitter accept all been replaced with carbon cilia apparatus pulled from the FIA GT4-series coupe, and the autogenous has been swathed in Alcantara and added of the adult composite. Lotus charcoal mum on absolutely how abounding pounds accept been afford acknowledgment to the carbon cilia diet, but alive the marque's affection for bound copy models, we wouldn't be afraid to see a assembly archetypal aggressive by the abstraction aural the abutting year.The abreast autogenous of the Evora Carbon Concept car combines the afterglow of the carbon panels with perforated covering and matte alcantara. The bespoke autogenous uses swathes of awe-inspiring blah alcantara to awning the footwell, dashboard and roof. The bendable arrangement of the covering and alcantara are abutting with the adamantine surfaces of the carbon cilia panels to accommodate a acceptable acoustic experience.

2010 Lotus Evora Carbon Concept Interior

The Evora Carbon Concept car has diamond-cut 19" artificial auto advanced and rear, shod with Pirelli P-Zero Corsa tires (235/35 front, 285/30 advanced rear). Donato Coco, Director of Lotus Architecture commented, "The architecture of the Evora Carbon Concept car appearance exotic, aerial tech abstracts that action a acceptable synergy with the Lotus cast image, cogent our motorsport ancestry and history of beautiful sports cars for which Lotus are renowned."2010 Lotus Evora Carbon Concept wallpaper

2010 Lotus Evora Carbon Concept specification

2010 Lotus Evora Carbon Concept specification

2010 Lotus Evora Carbon Concept front view