Lotus has announced their new Lotus Evora 400, which comes with a 3.5 litre V6 engine that features a new supercharger and it now comes with 400HP which is up 16 percent on the previous model.
Lotus have said that the extra 55HP in the new Lotus Evora comes from a range of enhancements to the cars supercharger, there have also been a number of changes to the manual gear box.
In describing the remit for the new Lotus Evora 400, Jean-Marc Gales, Chief Executive Officer for Group Lotus plc, states, “A requirement for all Lotus cars is to be a benchmark for handling, to be the quickest car from A to B and to provide the driver with a pure and involving driving experience. The Evora 400 is the fastest road-going Lotus that we have ever produced, possessing performance that can only be matched by cars costing significantly more. It delivers supercar looks allied to supercar performance.”
Jean-Marc Gales continues, “We have always said that to make a car better, you must make it faster and lighter. We have achieved this, of course, but we didn’t stop there, as the considerable number of changes in the interior, chassis, engine and body design have warranted emphatically, the title of a new Lotus Evora.
The new Lotus Evora 400 comes with a top speed of 186 MPH and has a 0 to 60 miles per hour time of just 4.1 seconds.
Source Autoblog
