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Lotus has declared the price for its Evora coupe which will be on sale in May. The price starts from £47,500 in ’2+0′ two-seater, plus £950 on-the-road charges, and £49,875 as a 2+2.
Lotus Engineering has produced the Omnivore research engine, which can be run on sustainable resource that is biofuels and predicts maximum fuel ratio from these.
One cylinder with a two-stroke operating cycle, along with direct injection and a variable compression ratio makes the engine. This helps it to easily adapt to different alcohol-based fuel types with diverse thermal properties, and it is also extremely thermal-efficient.
It is a one-piece ‘monoblock’ cylinder head and engine block and because of its structure it does not need either a head gasket nor ‘poppet’ valves. The discharge flow can be altered in any ratio, and the density achieved in the cylinder’s compression chamber can be adapted based on demands in the engine.
Lotus Engineering’s head of Power train, Geraint Castleton-White, says “This two-stroke engine could solve these practical difficulties and simultaneously permits a much larger range of compression ratio adjustment, with the potential to perform at a much higher efficiency when running on renewable fuels.”
The substitute for the Lotus Esprit is been postponed until 2011. This is due to the reason that the British sports car company is planning to produce six different variants of its new Evora model.
The Evora line-up will be made up of a convertible and even an automatic version. The convertible is supposed to be launched late in 2011. The model is drop-top and it is hopped that it will help Lotus to accomplish its sales object of 2000 Evoras per year.
Lotus has an 8 year lifespan which is being planned for the Evora. A report also says that a more prevailing version of the obviously-aspirated Evora will be developed around 320bhp and not like the standard car’s 280bhp and this will be launched within two years.
A hard-core S version is also in the pipeline and this is 400bhp which is available. It is expected that it will be a rival to Porsche 911 in its Turbo-rivalling levels of performance.
In the summer of 2009, Lotus will be releasing their newest beauty. The Lotus Evora.
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As you can see above, this is the newest Lotus. The Evora. The engine is a 3.5 Liter DOHC V6 VVT-i with 280ps @ 6.400rpm and 342Nm @ 4.700rpm. 0-60mph Sub 5 seconds.
The wheels are 18″ alloys in the front (225/40 ZR18) and 19″ alloys at the rear (255/35 ZR19).
Below a couple of images of this ride… click on them for a bigger view.
We all hope, that people that gonna ride a car like this will have a good insurance for their car, because the price of this ride is not available yet,.. but we bet this car will cost a lot 
Another sad thing is, that we didn’t heard about a some sort of economy engine. Running on hydrogen or something. Because the most manufactures are looking for alternative fuels like hydrogen or compressed natural gas. But maybe who knows…