LOTUS POSITION
“ITS REAR LIGHT USES ‘RGB’ LEDS, WHICH CAN CONJURE UP TO 16 MILLION HUES”
He’s been gone almost 40 years, but when your founder was as charismatic and clever as Colin Chapman, the shadow that’s cast is lengthy. “Simplify, then add lightness” was his best-known mantra, so what would he have made of our increasingly, soon-to-be exclusively, electrified world, and Lotus’ place in it? Complicate, then add weight…
We suspect he’d have been more OK with it than the beetroot-faced trolls that are no doubt bouncing off the social media redline this very second. Oh, the Lotus Eletre that you’re looking at here has, on the face of it, as much in common with a Lotus Seven or Elise as a speedboat has with a cross-Channel ferry. It’s a pure electric SUV, weighs north of 2.2 tonnes, and, can you believe, also happens to be the first Lotus in the company’s 74-year history to have four doors. It’s powered by a 105kWh
