{"id":3619,"date":"2019-08-20T05:39:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2019-08-20T05:39:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T05:39:57","slug":"lotus-evija-debuts-at-monterey-car-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/lotus-evija-debuts-at-monterey-car-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Evija debuts at Monterey Car Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lotus Evija, the world\u2019s most powerful production car, made its public debut in Monterey this week as thousands of fans flocked to the electric hypercar\u2019s reveal. North America\u2019s excited reception of the first all-electric British hypercar, resulted in strong double-figure orders being taken, and most of the initial production for the US market now allocated to customers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8fmeQyzbLhA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The all-new Lotus Evija hypercar has made its public debut at the world-renowned Monterey Car Week, which drew to a close at the Pebble Beach Concours d\u2019Elegance on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evija received plaudits from across the automotive world at Car Week, from the likes of high profile collector Jay Leno, social media star Supercar Blondie and the Petersen Automotive Museum Checkered Flag 200, gaining many new fans, friends and customers along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gordon McCall, Director of Motorsports for The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering, said: \u201cSeeing the Lotus Evija debut at The Quail was fantastic \u2013 the brand has an amazing history and it is exciting to see its future unfold with the first of its new sports cars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lotus Cars\u2019 CEO, Phil Popham, added: \u201cThis is exactly the start we hoped for. Evija is an outstanding and exceptional car \u2013 designed and engineered to put Lotus back on the map as the innovator and technical leader that it is. Many orders are now taken, giving us great confidence to hit our planned volume as we enter production next year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A technical tour de force, the Evija is illustrative of the innovative thinking and ingenuity that has always been part of the Lotus DNA. With a target output of 2000 PS, it is the world\u2019s most powerful series production road car. It has been designed and engineered in the UK, and will be produced at Hethel, UK, the home of Lotus since 1966. Exclusivity is guaranteed, with production limited to a maximum of 130 cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus Evija, the world\u2019s most powerful production car, made its public debut in Monterey this week as thousands of fans flocked to the electric hypercar\u2019s reveal. North America\u2019s excited reception of the first all-electric British hypercar, resulted in strong double-figure orders being taken, and most of the initial production for the US market now allocated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/lotus-evija-debuts-at-monterey-car-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lotus Evija debuts at Monterey Car Week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,23],"tags":[605,606,607,374],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqLPi-Wn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3621,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions\/3621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gglotus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}