What lies beneath: BAFFLED BY THE IDEA OF A LOTUS CROSSOVER? UNDERNEATH LIES THE ARCHITECTURE THAT WILL UNDERPIN THE ESPRIT REPLACEMENT

摘要

If a seven-seat, 4WD crossover seems like the vehicle you would least expect from Lotus, that is exactly the reaction the company is looking for. What better way to spread the word on what its Lotus Engineering division can do, than engineer a vehicle far removed from its normal fare of mid-engined sports cars? In the words of Daryl Greig, who is the vehicle architect for the Aluminium Performance Crossover (APX) unveiled at the Geneva show, "We don't have a pedigree that we can publish on our customer projects for cars other than sports cars."