The automaker Lotus is trying hard, to keep up with a plan conceived by the release of five new models over the next five years. He tries so hard to decide what time to move away from a sports car in favor of urban compacts.
At present the company is developing a car that rivals in predicting Aston Martin Cygnet. Kid-Lotus will create a parent company Proton, and will be available later in 2014. The decision to create a city car based on the fact that Lotus feels uncomfortable in the company of colleagues Mini, BMW and Audi, who have long settled in the compact segment, which yield a positive financial news.
In an interview with Auto Express resource Dany Bahar said: "We can not even try to compete with the Mini, BMW or Audi, yet you do not have a product that will outshine them. Our electric vehicle offers performance previously unheard of compacts. " Lotus City Car will be the production version of the concept of Ethos, which was presented at the auto show in Paris. The concept was equipped with three-cylinder 1.2-liter engine. He was able to make dispersal to "hundred" for 9 seconds. Maximum speed - 170 km / h.
