NEW Lotus Eletre Review: Absurd Idea Or Game Changer? | 4K 

It’s really not. Doesn’t have a v8 so it’s not an alternative. An rsq8 would be a good alternative to a urus, and it’s around the same price as this car.

​@@harrisr1018well that flew over your head 🤣 are you even human? All these new SUV models are a LITERAL CASH GRAB 💰💰💰💰💰 They're all designed relatively the same. That front end is shared with multiple vehicles including the Prius and Purosangue. The body is basically a Mazda CX-5 😅 Go look at a Acura MDX then look at a Urus 😭 Porsche is the only manufacturer making good SUV models. It's sad that Mercedes is copying there designs. VW has now decided to copy Porsche too instead of Ford 😅 Granted they own Porsche. Volvo is more or less doing there own thing, until you look at the Lamborghini Urus headlights 😅

​@@harrisr1018VW also copies Chevy

There will be no such discount, dealers will mark it up by 100k

@@eugenux You do realize that electric cars and SUVs have much lower carbon footprints than their ICE counterparts right? And this is only gen one. Furthermore, renewable energy sources will only get more robust which will further widen the gulf. Last I checked, you can’t fuel up your petrol car with sunlight.

Also interior quality feels like an upgrade compared to the Porsche cayenne

Nice! This SUV looks downright beautiful too. Enjoy the car. :-)

@@rob8710 the interior feels like a zeekr

@@DougC83 Geely knows how to put cars together - great car!

@@bavariancarenthusiast2722 they do, but its too much Geely for my taste.

An EV Macan is coming, based on the very unimpressive (IMO) VW ID.7. Long, but cramped, due to bad packaging. EV Cayenne, I've not heard much about yet. They'll need a new drivetrain that adds efficiency to power, Taycan is solid but not amazing in either those respects in this day and age. The Eletre has more power and more battery capacity. Charging C rate is similar, but it adds miles like a champ.

No thanks, Lotus is now Chinese, I can't imagine being a fan of them now. That's coming from an Asian person myself.

@@DroneStrike1776 Brits designed a lot of it, but it's not the same lotus of old. My dad's Renault Espace weighed half as much as this "SUV" without the U.

@@DroneStrike1776 you typed this comment on a device with components most likely made in China. I don’t like the politics of China either but a good car is a good car, irrespective of where it was built.

@@DroneStrike1776 In contrast to Porsche, Lotus has no plans to make another non EV after the Emira. Given Lotus' history that is straight criminal and just sad

Agree with you

Can't agree more

True but still wish they still care about ICE cars. As most of there brands are becoming ev manufacturers.

It doesn't need to secure anything under Geely's ownership they're doing fine - they could've kept Lotus doing lightweight cars (MG is doing a convertible roadster) yet they've shown disrespect for the marque and completely sold it out just for a profit margin.

When did machines start having personalities? As a consumer and not a hardcore car guy, I just need my EV to go from A to B. Don't really care about it having a personality or a soul

@@nomoreheroes93 No... Being owned by another company doesn't mean you can have extremely Iow sales and still exist. If Lotus were to sell only lightweight sportscars, sales would be so Iow that Geely would decide to leave them completely. Then what? They'd be gone forever. No company can stay alive without making a profit, it's basic logic.

As a gen z, I think all EVs are interesting and all ICE cars are boring. They are all the same and have been the same for decades

@@TD1237 fully support this. I just learned that Lotus sold 640 cars in all of 2022. I wonder how many of the Lotus die hard fans were actually buying their cars.

Put down the pipe dude.

@@paulm6481 Just my take but I stand by it.

@@AnthonyMunyi they stole the styling from lamborghini but Lotus doesn't have the name plate plus this is made in China

@@almac9203 Nice. It's made by people who actually know how to make well-built vehicles. And, no, idc about your opinions and beliefs. People who actually own China-made cars appreciate the reliability.

@@TD1237 you seem triggered. Don't get your panties in a bunch.

Is it made in China now?

@@justicons Yes, designed in England, engineered in Sweden and Germany, and built in a brand new state-of-the-art factory in Wuhan.

@@ARKAEA33 The quality of cars produced in China is very good in recent years.

@@justicons Yeah that's true. Super reliable too.

@@justicons Yes its Geely and they are made in Wuhan

Lotus has no desire to build proper sports cars. Lotus in now just a brand name for a Chinese EV manufacturer.

@@zarbon700 They've been majority owned by Geely since 2017... Nothing's changed.

@@TD1237 You're delusional. The first new vehicle under Geely's leadership, the Evija, is a dramatic change in Lotus' ethos. Geely's business strategy since acquiring Lotus was to transform it into an EV manufacturer. The Emira is the last internal combustion engine Lotus will make.

@@zarbon700 Relax, buddy. No need to get so worked up about something like this. Anyway, the Evija absolutely carries Lotus' ethos. It's an ultra light performance-oriented car. The fact that it's an EV is irrelevant, because every single manufacturer is moving in that direction. Plus, the Emira is an ICE sportscar. And your second point about them building EV's deviates from your original comment. Originally, you spoke of them not having a desire to build sports cars. And I demonstrated that you're lncorrect. The majority of vehicles produced after being acquired by Geely, are indeed sports cars. If you don't like them, that's fine, but that doesn't change the reality of the situation.

Even Emira is just an evolution on an ancient platform, at about double the weight it started out at. Don't expect too much Lotusness coming through.

Not quite by the masses that she claims though.

@@wingcommanderdaltonwalton67 For the masses amongst those who can afford it, this will sell infinitely better than any past Lotus. In context, she's completely right.

i'd vote for yellow

Black is wicked

Heyyyy S FL here as well! Hope I get to see urs on the road around here at some point!! Nice choice!!!

I sat in one at Fully Charged Live. Amazing interior to go with the it grows on you exterior design.

I vote for green

You can basically say that about any brand.

They do what they can do to survive. If you want Nice sport cars, you need some suvs to fund the sport cars. Just like the Cayenne saved Porsche

They'll be disappointed really....because it sound like a chariot with donkeys

The man knows a thing when he's able to progress from making refrigerators into owning multiple well-known car manufacturers.

Yeah... that comment is a bit out there and might need to be redacted. The investment was needed, but ill gladly take their sports cars than crossover trash.

@@Resist_Oppression Agreed, I have many people that are always curious about my elise. I've also seen many Porche 718 drivers switch to Exiges after sitting in one

The reality is that they just didn't sell enough of their small cars, it's a company that's made profit 2 years in its history.

I highly doubt it'll need to be redacted. Once these have been on the market for a year or two, I'm sure the sales figures will be at least double all the other models combined.

​@@peterd4011that's fair, I can agree with that. But it's not related to what she said about the previous cars being seen 1000 times and no one wanting to buy

Audi’s Black Editions have a lot to answer for - but not in a good way. You genuinely need chrome or brighter accents to avoid it looking like a lump of black pudding left on the side of the breakfast plate by a whinging vegetarian….

No

China has more than enough cheap EV's at this point

Following the Porsche model of success and all power to them.

Money from selling suvs needed for their low selling sport car programs

The world gone crazy... too many morons buying SUV's.

Well, it's the Chinese Geely that is giving them all the tech, so... Is it still Lotus?

@@drunkenwhiskeyeu They've been owned by Geely for over half a decade. So, yeah, it is the same Lotus as it's been for all these past years.

You all complaining the same thing. Low selling sportcars need development money from selling suvs. How hard is that to understand?

@@notagain2856 Lotus are owned by Geely, they don't have to sell SUVs to stay in business - "how hard is that to understand'

well, all smartphones including the iphone look like a black slab.

@@michaeljiang960, you are being disingenuous with this example. Smartphone physical design is driven by size limits and the screen interface being far more important; a black slab is all it needs to be. Cars are not phones. There is ZERO reason why this "new" car has to be such a blob and similar to everything else. It is boring. This is LOTUS, who have made many beautiful cars. This blob is not beautiful and seems just ignore what Lotus is known for.

That motto means nothing if Lotus is bankrupt

​@@notagain2856well, not quite, a legacy can live on without anyone being able to modify it, but there are people's livelihoods at risk, and that is more important, since we at least have the history to return to. That experimental period feels quite over now anyway and we need to adjust to move onto different perspectives, maybe brute force for a while, until technology allows for some more creativity, especially with EVs.

Because they stole the styling from lamborghini

Considering Lotis would have gone bankrupt without Geeky, I think she's right

@@davidk.d.7591 on what basis would they have gone bankrupt without Geely? Lotus have always managed to survive when other manufacturers hadn’t and created cars to rival any seriously considered track oriented vehicles out there. Also, they have for many years consulted and earned good money in consultancy fees, with many major manufacturers employing Lotus to assist in the design/ set up of the chassis dynamics. But back to my original point, there’s a huge Lotus following, based on the original concept, that being lightweight, relatively affordable supercar slayers, a community they have managed to alienate to the radical shift in ethos. For Lotus to declare they will make no further ICE vehicles after the Emira, will with the grace of time, I believe prove not to be the case, given that electric powered vehicles are on borrowed time, what with the development of synthetic fuels and the lifeline this substitute fuel will throw to the current ICE based vehicles out there, with keen owners eagerly and willingly ready to receive such a proposition.