[Spy Shots] New Lotus Type 133 luxury saloon ramps up for 2023 reveal

[Merc1]

Everyone makes good looking EV sedans except Mercedes-Benz. Tragic.

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[KiwiRob]

It’s great to see that Lotus have finally got the owner they have needed for so long.

 

[Tourbillon]

Lotus Cars on Instagram: "Unfollow the Crowd. Emeya. The Fully Electric Hyper-GT. 7 September. #Emeya #ForTheDrivers"

8,262 likes, 168 comments - lotuscars on August 29, 2023: "Unfollow the Crowd. Emeya. The Fully Electric Hyper-GT. 7 September. #Emeya #ForTheDrivers".

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#Emeya #ForTheDrivers - Lotus Cars Media Site

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Lotus EMEYA is finally here! Oh yes now Lotus are getting deadly serious.

 

[Tourbillon]

Lotus Emeya: name revealed for Porsche Taycan rival!

And next week we’ll be able to put a name to a shape when the car itself is unveiled.

Joe Holding
Published: 29 Aug 2023

Lotus Emeya: name revealed for Porsche Taycan rival

And next week we’ll be able to put a name to a shape when the car itself is unveiled

www.topgear.com

"Emeya. Sounds like the eyebrow-raising name of your slightly strange friends’ second daughter. But no, this is what we will be calling Lotus’s new Porsche Taycan rival, known up ‘til now as the Type 133.

The full car will be revealed on 7 September, but for now we’ve got very little to go on: previous intel confirmed this would be a four-door GT, with exec director of Lotus Cars Europe Niels de Gruijter telling TG earlier this month that the design was signed off and that sales would begin in 2024.

It follows a turbulent period for Lotus which has seen the launch of the Emira sports car and Eletre SUV, delays to its Evija hypercar, big financial losses in 2022 but record-breaking order books that promise to smash the brand’s best production numbers.

It wants to be shifting 150,000 cars annually by 2028, a lofty target when you think it sold just 567 last year.

Anything to be made from the shadowy teasers above? The headlight signature is pretty clear, featuring a double line design that’s a departure from the Eletre’s single sweep of LEDs.

We can also make out (boosted images provided above for your convenience) cameras in place of traditional wing mirrors and the fact that the rear brake light is a single, full-width element housed inside a recessed tailgate. A Lotus promo video gives away a pop-up rear spoiler too.

Reckon the Emeya can unseat the Taycan, folks?."

 

[dalab]

Lotus EMEYA is finally here! Oh yes now Lotus are getting deadly serious.

That's right after the IAA?
September will be a special month apart from my birthday a lot of news
*What a strange name they give it, in Spanish it sounds like anything, nothing good

 

[Tourbillon]

That's right after the IAA?
September will be a special month apart from my birthday a lot of news
*What a strange name they give it, in Spanish it sounds like anything, nothing good

IAA never followed much bit maybe this is a good year to start? - Oh apart from Bugatti Chiron 2017 when with Pablo Montoya they revealed the World Record results from Ehra-Lessien.

Oh and Very Happy Birthday whatever the number is.

 

[Tourbillon]

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Thank You to a colleague for bringing this to my attention. A little under the weather currently but this IS Lotus.

#LotusOfTechnologiesUsuallySophisticated

 

[tristatez28lt1]

Looks very much like the renders - not great. Lucid, e-tron, Taycan, Polestar 5 are all much nicer imho.

 

[SCOTT27]

Sounds like an Oirish singer from
The late eighties.

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=enya+orinoco+flow#searching

 

[dalab]

Sounds like an Oirish singer from
The late eighties.

Thanks for the song

 

[Jonathan19]

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[Jonathan19]

Leak!

 

[tristatez28lt1]

Man that front looks off. Hope this car looks better in person.

 

[Serpens]

The Lotus of the future is just not for me. I find all of their designs to be ugly.

 

[Matski]

Yeah, this particular flavour of Geeley is not for me.

 

[dalab]

It gives me vibes from this KIA, a little

 

[Gianclaudio]

This one and the suv are so chinese looking... could easily put the Nio badge and call it a day.

 

[Tourbillon]

This one and the suv are so chinese looking... could easily put the Nio badge and call it a day.

I'm not sure who designed them. The Eletre to me is OK but, certain aspects of the Emeya don't gel.

I'll give it sometime though. But again to me the Lucid Air is, currently far more impressive.

 

[Tourbillon]

Official Lotus Emeya pictures directly from them!

 

[Tourbillon]