Lotus Evora – Testing And Development

[Mark H]

Lotus Evora – Testing and Development

It’s a global car, so the Evora has been tested around the world. From the icy

wastes of the Arctic to the heat of the Australian desert, the high altitude of the

Alps as well as the country roads around the Hethel factory.

A cross functional team comprising of design, CAE and test and development

engineers have been able to develop the Evora into a class leading vehicle in

an exceptionally short space of time. It has spent hours howling around the

Nürburgring and endlessly lapped Lotus’s test track at Hethel. By the time the

Evora entered production at the start of 2009, prototypes had travelled for

hundreds of thousands of miles along some of the worst public roads in the

world and been tortured for as many miles on some of the toughest proving

grounds the motor industry has to offer, including extreme pavé tests.

It has been flung into barriers at low and high speeds, at a multitude of angles,

it has even had its roof and doors compressed! By the time the Evora reaches

the showrooms, it will be the most thoroughly tested Lotus car in the history of

Lotus. It will also be one of the company’s great milestones.

Lotus Evora: 205 g/km CO2

8.7 litres / 100 km (32.5 mpg) Combined Cycle

12.4 litres / 100 km (22.8 mpg) Urban Cycle

6.5 litres / 100 km (43.5 mpg) Extra Urban Cycle

 

 

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