Artist Takes A Stab At New Rendering Lotus' New SUV - Should Porsche Be Worried?

That is HIDEOUS. And even if it were gorgeous, Porsche would not think twice. Porsche's engineering prowess is way past that of Lotus.

A lot of today's auto designs make me think they were done by first-year art-school students whose only tools were a ruler and a dull pencil. It's like most of the industry has forgotten what curves are.

I so agree.

As I said to you elsewhere, I like Giugiaro's 70s styled by axe look. There were some pretty wonderful knife-edged cars and some ugly ones. Honda knows curves and uses them to hideous results, whereas there are delightful curvy cars.

I like Lamborghinis for their styled with an axe look, but I also love the voluptuous curves of Aston Martins.

My bottom line is whether or not the car works in terms of proportions etc.

The Porsche Panamera is vomitous yet the Cayman can be downright sublime.

Lotus needs to worry about staying in the car business instead of thinking about coming out with an SUV. Plus it looks like something even Honda or Nissan would reject.

Very true. Lotuses simply cost too much for what you get.

They are track cars that are barely livable for the street.

Lotus should come up with a mix of products. They should call Mazda and do a tuned version of the Miata as a "tuned by Lotus" Elan. A tuned by Lotus Mini Cooper would be another no brainer.

That would get the Lotus name out there and create a rumble.

They need to do a car for $40K and ink a distribution deal with a premium brand like maybe Jaguar to incrrase their sales channel.

I've driven an Evora and yes it's fun, but I wouldn't own one. It's too inhospitable.

Granted, I just put down two deposits for TVRs which historically are pretty inhospitable, but all the digression.

TVR was able to get pre-orders for its first year of resumed production of the 2017 coupe. Granted, it hasn't come to market yet, but I know people and between us there are 19 deposits.

Lotus is much more respected--by a wide margin--than TVR.

They need to find their rallying point.

What I am about to say is heresy, but I'd love to see TVR and Lotus share platforms and prosper.

PS I dyspize typohs

Well - the rendering is not from Lotus - so IT actually represents nothing. Unless it is based on some type of inside information - and none was noted - it is just a bad joke from an unknowing artist

Porsche has nothing to worry about from Lotus though - Porsche has the money and distribution of the currently worlds #1 automaker behind it - Lotus has no distribution - and is almost Bankrupt right now. That SUV is never going to get produced.

That artist is trolling or just really sucks. Who cares about this garbage pic -- Lotus can't release an SUV that looks like this if it wants to sell it. Also, Porsche doesn't need to be worried at all... and why Porsche, anyway? Why not Jag with their upcoming Arse-Face or whatever it's called? That's at least also a low-volume British brand.