Thanks to Lotus, we now know Toyota’s 3.5 litre V6 can be forced inducted to a nice 350hp and 400Nm of torque without any modifications, as a source in Lotus discovered during the development of an upcoming “Evora SC” and revealed to Autocar UK. The Lotus Evora SC will make at least that amount of power, and will drop 0 to 100km/h acceleration time to below 5 seconds. The Lotus Evora is expected to do in in approximately 5.5 seconds. The Evora SC’s supercharger will be fitted between the V6 engine’s two cylinder banks, so it won’t intrude into rear visibility like the supercharged Elise does. If the Evora goes for £45,000, the supercharged Evora is expected to retail for between 55,000 and £60,000.
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love lotus handling..but design wise…getting really boring….is like they din bother to even think of a new design..the tail lamp looks like its copied straight out of the lotus elise and exige….and the front…well….kinda dated…
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Nice… it look as though Proton Group got two sets of mind, Proton is still in love with Mitsubishi and Lotus just dont have enough of Toyota…. only that, when will Lotus supercharging a production Proton car..
Didn’t the Solara Coupe come with an optional TRD Supercharger?
I’m thinking they are very similar, well, given the 0.5L jump in displaement of the Solara/Camry’s then 3.0L V6
lOvE It!!!
Toyota in Australia has a superchaged TRD Aurion(Camry in some cuntries) which produced 241kw. But after just 2 TRDs projects, they have already canned TRD Australia. http://www.toyota.com.au/TRD/#main/vehicles/trdaurion/trdaurionFeaturePerformance:page=1
Looking forward for this Evora SC since most of Lotus sport cars are track base or just plain basic on it’s interior which difficult to live by on daily basis. Let’s hope this Evora will shine where the Europa failed! Even Jason Plato from Fifth Gear tested the Europa and generally didn’t find it good enough to be a proper GT car because the car needs to be more comfortable. I really want to see this Evora to be better than Europa in both comfort and performance wise. Cheers!
agree to moha774, just hope proton don go for 4 wifes! sendiri dah tak cukup makan, nak kawin lagi ???
proton + mitsubishi + lotus + toyota = strange bedfellows!!!!
did lotus ever had developed their own engine in the past?
cheers~
i wont buy a lotus until proton sells off lotus
read in tuner mag, Gen2 Campro supercharged by powerzone got 180hp…
what’s the point, i’d loose all the extra weight the evora is ‘blessed’ with and do away with all the creature comforts. it’s a lotus for goodness sake! Shouldn’t the evora be a sub 1000kg car for a start?
yea. its problably just the toyota australia sourced 3.5 litre supercharged. wats the point of the evora if you want to make it just a bigger elise. lotus simply do not know how to make a comfortable sportscar.
nice chasis and good engine reliability. this should prove to be a good formula.
for those who want a nice coupe car with the reliability of a toyota. LOL.
topgunthang said,
January 9, 2009 @ 10:51 pm
yea. its problably just the toyota australia sourced 3.5 litre supercharged. wats the point of the evora if you want to make it just a bigger elise. lotus simply do not know how to make a comfortable sportscar.
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i’m pretty sure lotus will not just source an engine like that from toyota. i’m pretty sure the supercharger will be sourced by lotus, and plenty of retuning done by them.
and if you want lightweight, theres always the elise. the whole concept of the evora, is to open up new markets for lotus.. not everyone wants a super lightweight no frills sports car.
what about the tesla roadster? its cooler….
Tesla roadster is modified from the Elise…
raptorclans said,
January 10, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
Tesla roadster is modified from the Elise…
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top gear says it only 7% elise
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January 11, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
raptorclans said,
January 10, 2009 @ 5:37 pm
Tesla roadster is modified from the Elise…
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top gear says it only 7% elise
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the chassis design, suspension system..etc. is an elise. the car is even built on the lotus assembly line in hethel. even the styling was done by lotus design according to tesla’s design brief.
what top gear meant by 7% is the “shared components” from elise. stuff like mirrors, swithgear, dashboard..etc.
Like Banyak says… the Tesla IS an Elise, albeit heavily modified. Which means you still get to deal with high (and deep) door sills, crammed interior, poor visibility, etc. To me, aside from the interior updates (a bit more leather, and a cooler looking center console/strip) – the exterior looks very plain jane, and obviously no one is spending 100k on an electric car to save gas money… It's more a publicity thing for celebs and collectors than anything.
On the original topic, I think all these specs on the Evora floating around are mostly speculation at best despite the "inside sources" they claim to have. Everything I've read from official lotus sources have different specs. 0-60 in 5.5? 4.9s is the official spec, with 5.1 0-100kmh… that throws doubt on any other spec listed in this article.
Definitely previewing the car as it crosses through my dealership next weekend though – I think my Elise will be up for sale in a couple months tops while I wait for this more "grown up" Lotus