Previously, some media had exposed the patent map of Lotus Lambda. Combined with the latest exposure of project investment information, this "domestic" largest brand and most luxurious SUV has begun to take shape. As usual, look at the appearance first. According to the patent map of the appearance, the foreign media made an effect map close to the real car. Overall style, Lotus Lambda is basically similar to medium and large luxury coupe SUVs such as Lamborghini Urus and Aston Martin DBX. The hatchback lines on the roof are very eye-catching, creating a dynamic body of Lambda. Then the front face also has the iconic family elements of the lotus, such as the shield-shaped design across the mountain and the long and narrow headlights. Although there is no rendering to show the tail, as can be seen from the patent drawing, Lambda does not use penetrating taillights like DBX, nor does it use its own sci-fi design of pure electric supercar Evija. From the tail of Lambda, we can see a lot of inheritance, especially the two round taillights with strong three-dimensional sense, which are similar to the taillights design of lotus sports car families such as Evora, Elise and Exige.
The style and factory have been found. Does Geely's domestic lotus want to play with tickets or for real? In fact, both possibilities make sense. First, although the brand Lotus is famous in the super-running world, it has always been relatively small. Even in its heyday, Evora, Elise and Exige were gathered, and the annual sales volume was only 1000. It is obviously not easy to expect Geely to launch a domestic Lotus SUV to stir up the entire luxury medium and large SUV market. But secondly, Lotus had a good example before, and that was Porsche. In the first half of this year, affected by the epidemic, only four mainstream car companies in Europe and America, such as Ferrari and Porsche, made profits. Porsche is the most profitable of the four car companies, reaching 65.438+0.23 billion euros. Why can Porsche make money? This obviously has a lot to do with their earlier launch of SUV models. You know, before the Cayenne went public in 2002, Porsche's financial situation was already stretched.
What are the chances for Geely and Lotus to win if they want to take the road of Porsche? Let's take a closer look at the first SUV made in Lotus. According to the published information, the length, width and height of Lotus Lambda are 4900/20171625mm respectively, and the wheelbase is 2999mm, which is equivalent to BMW X6 and slightly smaller than Lamborghini Urus and Aston Martin DBX. Moreover, Lambda offers 4-seat and 5-seat models with three power systems: fuel, hybrid and pure electric. As a sports car brand that is ready to rise again after disappearing, it is definitely right for Lotus to position its first model in a medium and large SUV after domestic production, but what is more worrying is the power system of Lotus.
Once upon a time, the power of Lotus mainly came from Toyota's 2GR? 3.5L engine, and then squeeze the power through its own adjustment, such as top speed or adding a mechanical supercharging system. However, after being acquired by Geely, Toyota's 3.5L engine has been used for a long time, and it is definitely impossible for the powertrain on Lambda to continue the 3.5L supercharging method in the future. According to the latest information, Lotus Lambda will adopt Volvo SPA architecture, which is the platform of V90, S90 and XC90, so the fuel version is expected to be equipped with Volvo's Drive-E? 2.0T engine! If we want to talk about the cultural connotation of the brand Lotus, the Volvo SPA platform is obviously incompatible with this British sports car aristocrat. After all, the performance and handling of the sports car built by the Lotus rear-drive platform once made Porsche feel scared. Moreover, Lotus has won the championship of teams and drivers many times in the history of F 1. How can Lotus with such a strong racing pedigree be imprisoned by a horizontal driving platform?
Looking at the renderings in front, I thought Lotus wanted to "face-to-face" Lamborghini and Aston Martin, but turned out to be a coward? In fact, to fight for performance, Lotus is "betting" on pure electric four-wheel drive, and the project drawings exposed in advance are also pure electric vehicles. Specifically, the pure electric Lambda will be equipped with dual motors. Maximum power of front motor 100kW, maximum power of rear motor 450kW, and comprehensive maximum power of system 550kW "sec". The non-SVJ version of Daniel can't go on stage either. According to the exposure parameters, the peak torque of double motors of Lotus Lambda reaches 7 10Nm and 1 140nm respectively, so it is estimated that Lambda should have a "furious mode" similar to "super pressurization". Moreover, Lambda will be equipped with active rear wheel steering function, and the maximum rear wheel size will reach 3 15/35? R22, from these details, you can already smell a new energy "beast". As for battery life, the nominal battery life of pure circuit TES Lambda is 579 kilometers, but it does not specify which test standard is adopted. However, for the brand Lotus, battery life does not seem to be the most important.
Peng You said
In our opinion, the Lotus factory in Wuhan is "made in China", but from a global perspective, the gold content of the Lotus brand should not be underestimated, and the Lotus Lambda will also be sold to the global market in the future. Last year, the starting price of pure electric supercar Evija released by Lotus was 65,438+0.7 million pounds, with a limited edition of 65,438+0.30 sets. China allocated five places at a price of 2 1.88 million RMB. The production of this car has been booked out in the first year, which shows that Lotus still has many rich fans around the world. In fact, Lotus Lambda is not only a super-running brand competitor like Urus and DBX, but also more important competitors are BMW X6 and X5, including iX5, Mercedes-Benz GLE, Porsche Cayenne and Tesla Model. For a more "popular" model like X, the only worry at present is how much of Lotus's "racing pedigree" can be left on Lambda. Moreover, if Lotus Lambda is delivered to Volvo SPA platform for production, can Lambda's car-making process be guaranteed? After all, the performance, handling and aerodynamic design requirements of Lotus are higher than those of Volvo, so Lambda can't be renamed as Volvo XC90. Volvo's assisted driving system, as well as exquisite materials and workmanship, are not available in Lotus, a "hand-made sports car". It is of course the best if we can complement each other on the first domestic Lotus SUV.
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