Lotus may provide the Emira with an excellent bigger engine than the supercharged petrol V6 unit that at present serves the mannequin, reported Autocar. “We’re at present investigating the feasibility of the V8,” Geely CEO Feng Qingfeng was quoted as saying.
The assertion got here in response to a query from a United States-based vendor who urged that Lotus ought to provide an much more highly effective spinoff of the V6-engined Emira, and the CEO of Geely dominated out adapting the present unit for extra energy as a result of it might not adjust to upcoming Euro 7 emissions rules.
At current, the Emira is the only real inside combustion engine-powered mannequin within the Lotus product line-up, comprised of a Toyota-sourced 3.5 litre V6 unit that Lotus has deployed in fashions previous, in addition to a turbocharged 2.0 litre inline-four from Mercedes-AMG within the Emira i4.
There are “some alternatives with the present provider of engines,” so Lotus is wanting on this course, stated Windle, although he didn’t particularly title Mercedes-AMG, nor affirm the plan for utilizing a V8 as indicated by Feng. “It’s a really, very competent product that we most likely haven’t exploited to its full already, so we’re all of the choices,” Windle added.
Adapting a V8 engine, ought to it come from AMG, to be used within the Emira would take important re-engineering as V8-powered mid-engined automobiles are usually bigger and their engines longitudinally oriented, whereas the three.5L V6 at present within the Emira is a transverse-mounted unit.
Inbuilt Hethel in the UK, gross sales of the Emira reached a file 5,272 models, and whereas Lotus had meant to discontinue the V6 model of the sports activities automotive, its reputation in america – the world’s largest marketplace for sports activities automobiles – prompted the producer to contemplate changing the V6 with an excellent larger engine.
“The US is an extremely vital marketplace for us for the automotive. It all the time has been. So we’re wanting on the market demand for the product going ahead,” Lotus CEO Matt Windle advised Autocar. Whereas the model’s CEO didn’t particularly title Mercedes-AMG because the potential engine provider, Windle stated that Lotus is contemplating different choices by way of powertrain.
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