Lotus Eletre
Overview
Produced in Wuhan, which seems to provoke a strange kind of wrinkle in some people’s foreheads that suggests this final piece of information confirms that a five-seat sporting SUV is indeed the antichrist and will bring about the fall of civilisation by not weighing under a tonne and being powered by a Rover K-series.
Still, if you can wade through the thick layer of Colin Chapman memes and borrowed outrage, there seems to be a lot of interest in Lotus picking up and trying something new. Presumably something that will appeal to more people than an ICE two-seater with the luggage capacity of a teaspoon. And here’s a final needle to the posterior of the old guard: this is the best built, least glitchy and fastest (road going at least) Lotus there has ever been.