New Concept City Car will Enter Production Lotus CEO Says

It seems that Aston Martin is the only British sports car, the controversial small city in your area. Lotus CEO Dany Bahar said the car magazine concept city car, which is a look at the recent Paris Motor Show, with five sports studies, was approved for production. Business, Executive Director, said the car will be produced in collaboration with Lotus and its parent company Proton undisclosed third party.

"Our city car was confirmed to be launched in October 2013," says Bahar British magazine. ". We, along with protons and other OEMs [original equipment manufacturers, or car], we build three versions. One for the Asian market, one for Europe and sporty"

Lotus spicy City Car Concept is based on the three-proton EMAS wrote Giugiaro Design Studio, which was first shown in Geneva earlier this year.

Built on a platform that is designed to Italdesign Giugiaro, a concept model of EV, 45 kW (peak power 75kW) electric motor that can be charged 1.2 liter 3-cylinder engine to meet. Plug-in hybrid drive system has been developed by Lotus. Unlike the front-wheel-IQ Cygnet receives British supermini is set to rear-wheel drive.

The total weight of less than 1400 kg [3086 pounds] and 240 nm [£ 177-ft] torque available at this time, the City Car concept said to complete a 00-50 km / h sprint in 4.5 seconds and a 0 - 100 kmh [62 mph] in 9 seconds, when acting as EV batteries. The highest rate is linked to 170 km / h [105 mph] to keep charging a maximum speed of 120 km / h [63 mph].

Electric only range is 50 kilometers or 31 miles, but can be extended to a total of 500 kilometers or 311 miles, when the gasoline engine kicks. Lotus claims that the station will return CO2 emissions of 60 g / km.

Mr. Bahar said, if the production model retains the concept of the extended-range hybrid or a Lotus car offer with a conventional gasoline engine as well.