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British sports car and motor racing brand Lotus Cars is set to unveil its first 100% electric hypercar this Tuesday, 16 July in London. It will be called the Evija, as announced at the UK's Goodwood Festival of Speed, which opened Thursday, 4 July.

Until now known only as "Type 130," the car said to be "the very first British electric hypercar" will in fact be Lotus' first major model produced since its purchase by Chinese firm Geely in 2017. The brand intends to hit hard by presenting a racer with at least 1,000 hp, emphasising the sporty DNA which has brought success in the past.

Just days before its presentation, Lotus has not yet given a single detail. The only thing that is certain is that the Evija, due out in 2020, will only be created in 130 models. For the rest, especially for the performance specifications, we'll have to wait for the official presentation.

This article is published via AFP Relaxnews.

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Ferrari is on a roll right now -- or at least it is when it comes to its road-car operation (we’ll politely draw a veil over the F1 team’s lacklustre performance so far this season). Because having launched its 488 successor, the F8 Tributo, just a couple of months back, and with a V6 mid-engine hybrid and a sort-of-SUV both in the latter stages of development, it’s now gone and whipped the covers off a new halo model that is claimed to be the quickest Ferrari ever built for the road.

Called the SF90 Stradale, a name that, curiously, it shares with another road rocket by Dallara, this latest offering from Maranello is also the company’s first-ever plug-in hybrid, as well as being the first Ferrari flagship with a V8, rather than a V12, under its engine cover. Moreover, it’s the only mid-engine Fezza that’s fettled with all-wheel drive, because, says the company, that’s the only way it can get its highly complex power unit’s 986bhp (or, in metric numbers, a straight 1,000 horses) on to the tarmac without shredding an expensive set of tyres each time you boot the throttle. Of that total output, 769bhp comes from the 4-litre turbo V8; the remaining 217 are supplied by three electric motors, one at the rear and two at the front.

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So, you ask, how does it go? Well, with a super-light carbon fibre and aluminium chassis to help offset the heft of those batteries (and which clearly makes a significant contribution to the Stradale’s impressive weight-to-power ratio of 1.57 kg/hp), you could say it’s … fast -- pretty damn fast in fact. And that means a barely believable 0–100km/h time of 2.5 seconds -- plus a maximum speed that’s more than three times faster than you can legally drive in Hong Kong. Which, of course, is hardly likely to dent its appeal in this overcrowded and overregulated spot on the globe one iota.

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Alfa Romeo’s Giulia Quadrifoglio should be in the next James Bond film. Not in some bit part—central casting should bump Aston Martin and give it the lead. Bond cars often possess button-activated superpowers. At the turn of a dial, the Quadrifoglio transforms from a sports sedan to a turbo snorting, rail-cornering, 191 mph track car. […]

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Ever since the manufacturer of luxury sports cars first launched the Vantage in the 1950s as an upgrade to the DB2, it has been synonymous with performance. The latest incarnation of this flagship sports car continues a proud tradition

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#Hashtag is an online column that susses out the latest trends on Instagram. This week, we’re jumping into the driver’s seat of some of the slickest rides we’ve seen on our feed.

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The station wagon version of the Panamera saloon is surprisingly just as fast.

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In 2016 at the Geneva Motor Show, a surprise was unveiled by legendary Roland Gumpert, CEO and Chief Engineer, called the Apollo Arrow. Most automotive enthusiasts know of the Gumpert Apollo, but with Norman Choi, owner of Ideal Team Ventures Limited, an investment in producing the next hypercar for the masses was born. Back in […]

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