Welcome back to the podcast. I don't know about you, but I'd like a Lotus for Me. There's a whole thing going on with Lotus for me.

Lotus for me is a thing. Why? Why? It's a thing. How do you burn down a brand? It's news, but it's also, it's bad news, isn't it?

This is the Elektra on screen. This is not the Lotus for Me. This is just a representative example because we don't

know what the Lotus for me looks like, but what Lotus is doing is making a hybrid. They went all

electric and claimed that the Amira is the last gas powered sports car we're ever going to build.

How long before they renege on that? How long before they backpedal and come off of that one

and say, all right, the next Emirate generation or whatever they call it next?

I think of an e-word, and they'll call it that.

So, the Lotus for me is the first LTS certified X hybrid hyper SUV launching in China late March 2026 with Global Rollout to follow.

It has a 2-liter turbo gas engine with two electric motors and a 70-kilwatt battery on a 900-volt

platform, adding up to about 939 horsepower.

LTS means what you might ask.

That is Lotus-tuned specification. An engineering standard what you might ask. That is Lotus tuned specification, an engineering

standard that Lotus has enacted ensuring consistent driver-centric dynamics. So across all

their products. What we've done now is we're essentially making a large, super heavy, super

powerful SUV with the badge on the back. This is handling by Lotus. We've gone back to that. It's handling by Lotus. I mean, I've never thought anything about this was either... Nothing about this is Lotus. Actually, Lotus. Yeah, yeah. The Lotus for me is their ability to do the Electra without it being all electric. Because Electric kind of sounds like electric. You see what they did there? Ooh, that there who it's exciting yes yes I'm making fun of Lotus because they deserve it

here this is some sort of hybridized SUV and they're and they're selling that

again as look at how powerful this is more powerful than the Electra will be and

therefore is cooler it opens the door for okay from all, now they're going hybrid. So that has opened up the world for doing whatever. I want a lotus product that feels like a lotus product. This is a rebadging exercise. And I understand. I get it. I get it. Their parent company is the Chinese company Gili. They make all

electrics. I see the connected tissue. But this may as well just have a handling by lotus badge on the back, which through the 80s and 90s, a lot of cars that shouldn't have handled well did because they were some manufacturers car. This isu. With handling by Lotus on the back. Yes. But that was a badge of pride. Yes, it was.

The cars were lightweight, and it actually made sense.

I mean, Porsche has offered engineering... Nisuzu. With handling by Lotus on the back. Yes. But that was a badge of pride. Yes, it was

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