A Lotus EV? If British electronics are involved, isn’t a Lotus EV going to be useful only as a paperweight? I kid, I kid. Lotus, however, is dead serious — the Lotus Eletre is here, and the company calls it “the world’s first electric Hyper-SUV”. Cutting through the press-release hyperbole, we see that Lotus is […] The post Lotus Eletre SUV Unveiled, More Lotus EVs Planned appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

Elon Musk, the real-life Tony Stark of our times, has quite the extensive résumé: Founder of PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors; billionaire investor of projects and businesses such as SolarCity and the preservation of Nikola Tesla’s lab; inventor of the Hyperloop rapid mass transit concept; 007 cosplayer… Yes, you read that right: Musk is a […] The post Elon Musk Buys 007 Submarine, Will Attempt To Make It Functional appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

Remember TTAC’s Future Writers Week? You chose the writers. The writers wrote. The stories are in (well, most of them …). Here is the first one. Do you like it? Tell us. The stories will be published in the sequence in which they arrived in TTAC’s mailbox. I thought I was hard-core. People who complain about the […] The post Exotic Cars: Buy, Or By The Hour? Today: Lotus Elise. <em>A Future Writer Story</em> appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

Lotus Cars has announced that the Emira sports car will be its next and final internal combustion model as it prepares itself to become an exclusively electric brand. The historically British manufacturer says its Chinese owners, the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, are preparing a cash injection of $2.8 billion to swap to EVs and expand […] The post Lotus Says Emira Will Be Its Last Gasoline Powered Model appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

Lotus Cars has announced that the Emira sports car will be its next and final internal combustion model as it prepares itself to become an exclusively electric brand. The historically British manufacturer says its Chinese owners, the Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, are preparing a cash injection of $2.8 billion to swap to EVs and expand […] The post Lotus Says Emira Will Be Its Last Gasoline Powered Model appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

Today’s Lotus Excel hails from the end of a period of transition at the famed British brand. Built for 11 years, by the end of Excel’s run the company had chosen a new direction for its cars. Most would say the change was for the better. The Excel entered production in 1982 in the form […] The post Rare Rides: The 1992 Lotus Excel, End of an Era appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

Today’s Lotus Excel hails from the end of a period of transition at the famed British brand. Built for 11 years, by the end of Excel’s run the company had chosen a new direction for its cars. Most would say the change was for the better. The Excel entered production in 1982 in the form […] The post Rare Rides: The 1992 Lotus Excel, End of an Era appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

While the Rare Rides series has featured a few Lotus vehicles in past, none of them rose quite to the importance of today’s single-seat example. A one-of-one, it’s the car Lotus used in the 1981 Formula One racing series. And now you can buy it, and drive it on quick jaunts to Target or Cracker Barrel. Lotus […] The post Rare Rides: The 1981 Lotus 87 Formula One Car, in Black Gold appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

While the Rare Rides series has featured a few Lotus vehicles in past, none of them rose quite to the importance of today’s single-seat example. A one-of-one, it’s the car Lotus used in the 1981 Formula One racing series. And now you can buy it, and drive it on quick jaunts to Target or Cracker Barrel. Lotus […] The post Rare Rides: The 1981 Lotus 87 Formula One Car, in Black Gold appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more

Lotus has finally revealed its new halo vehicle, the Evija, claiming it will become “the world’s most powerful production car.” However, due to the Evija’s extremely limited availability and 1.7 million-pound ($2.1 million) price, there’s a lot undercutting that claim. It also leads Lotus away from its role as a scrappy underdog, delivering stripped-down featherweights designed […] The post One Hell of a Halo: Lotus Building Most Powerful ‘Production Car’ in Existence appeared first on The Truth About Cars ..read more