This guy is the design chef, so it’s evident that he will tell you only about the design, especially that this is a concept car, so it’s made for show and not for the drive.
I agree with you. I just watched the whole thing and I didn't get a single lotus vibe. So much talk about ergonomics and mood lighting, very little about actual engineering design and performance which is what lotus has always been about. Everything seemed to be orientated around "UI" and nothing to do with the power, suspension.
Someone's imagination was on fire when this was dreamed. The super-science in this car is certainly mingled with the bright stuff of an incredible future.
“Analog and digital are words. We are going to use those words while talking about this concept car. This car has a top and I’m going to use the word digital. This car has a side and now I’m going to use the word analog.” Makes perfect sense to me
Love this design. The high contrast angular body and the texture of the forged carbon interior. Honest materials and a cohesive concept, well executed. Please make this
And so the cyberpunk era of cars begins. The design looks amazing, the middle driving position is really interesting, but it draws some questions about security, like being able to integrate seat belts seamlessly. Of course it’s a concept car, but it would be interesting to see how a production car looks like. On the other side, it wasn’t specified, but this much space in the cabin would only seem to be possible with an electric engine configuration. I’d also love to see how this integrates with Lotus’s low weight, fun car concept. Without a doubt the future’s here and I’m all for it!
Absolutely incredible. First modern concept that my jaw dropped. This is what I want in a design. The door design and functionality is outstanding - a solution to a long-standing design problem. Demonstrates sincere attention to detail. Phenomenal.
I'm 17, And that means I'm forced to grow up into a world that will be full of eclectic, automatic and relatively non-combustion vehicles. Although that truth is sad I feel honored that there are people and companies - like those at Lotus - that are not afraid to be bold and make the most of the future to come, even better they are helping bring that future to the present. Realistically I'll never be able to afford nor drive a car like this, but I'm grateful machines like this are finally here. Good on you all at Lotus
@GAFUKIS and seen what? Customers do not want EVs , that's why the nevera sold around a third of it's intended units. Mate Rimac himself said customers don't want EVs. They are sterile slop
@chrisjames7803 not really, a full scale concept study is useful to iron out the kinks of the design. Ofc they have made the 3d model first and foremost, but you could only see and feel so much through a screen. Anyway, more and more of these fullscale studies were made using recyclable materials to push your agendas, so you should be celebrating it
Finally something distinctive and interesting. Design of supercars in the last 5-10 years was universally approaching a singular shape due to aerodynamic requirements. My only critique is that the door opening speed needs to be at least tripled.
Lotus... invite Harry Metcalffe, give him a coffee and a conversation with Ben for halve an hour. You will get 25 X more views, a far more interesting and thorough video and most importantly: NO IRRITATING BACKGROUND MUSIC!!!
look at the way he steps out of the car, if he had any passengers he would have to sit on their laps to get out, or climb over their legs. it looks cool but it's not practical at all.
Awesome - can't wait to see the production models that incorporate some of these features! One thing though. Please put a proper ICE engine it it. I'd even accept, at a pinch a hybrid.
Cool, but what exactly is next? Another SUV? Another big GT weighing 2.5 tons? Is all this work going to be wasted for better speakers in a new, heavy SUV? I assume that making a production car exactly like this would be very expensive and unprofitable. But that was the idea - that SUVs and GTs would make money, and sports cars would give fun to users and satisfaction to their creators. Without this, Lotus will lose its sense of existence and will be just a name for Chinese EVs.
masterpiece the lotus design team is the best in the game right now .....all models are ahead of their time compared to way bigger brands with billion dollar budgets
When I was in high school (1990), I went to a car show in Atlanta. I saw "future cars" back then that looked similar to this. Don't hold your breath for this to come out. That front end won't look like that when they are forced to put a bumper on it.
Some stunningly beautiful design accents which will hopefully trickle down into production. I particularly like the exposing of the mechanical elments and the idea of a Lotus that you can get in and out of with relative ease. The OLED panel that 'talks to you' feels a bit gimmicky, i'd be interested to know the real world practical application. As echoed by many in the comments, please, please, don't stop producing ICE vehicles. The market has demonstrated there's little appetite for combining Supercar performance and price-tags with fully electric. There's a reason why despite having all the music you could ever want accessible on your mobile phone, vinyl sales continue to soar. You can't reproduce the textural experience of analogue with sanitised digital. I'm digressing into the broader EV debate, but its particularly relevant to Lotus (even more than standard car manufacturers), because Lotus are founded on the Drivers experience and connection with the vehicle.
At long last the future loo like it's here. It's a stunning car. It's a lotus which means it will be an absolute dream around a track. Amazing job lotus
Maybe this is a way to keep their designers feeling like they can explore their passion. Too much normal work might leave them uninspired. Still be better to just make them but could be part of it
@@notjoevaping9600 its idiotic.. thats what it is .. a track toy at most... Its not even a car.. and some guys want to even see it produced 🤯 its surprising
Looking forward to the resurgence of 1920s elegance in car design. This attempt to imagine the future looks like a click-bait tech product ad in a social media feed.
If Lotus could make a somewhat affordable GT, like a 4 Series, I'd be first in line. I understand the original ethos of Lotus, but we're where we are now and I'd love to be able to own one.
Looks like a Bullet from the side. I think the black and white gives this LA police 🚔 car vibe. At least you have the colour of the lotus logo changed, it looks sleek and classy instead of that bold yellow and black logo that looks like a Sticker and ruins the image of the car. It would be nice if you guys made the Emira into a 4 seater with a bit more horse power 🎉🎉🎉
Dear car companies, please make futuristic car designs with combustion engine and manual gearboxes thank you. - signed by a young person. (Aka your future target audience)
3 seater is what makes it so intresting. Everyone can se its beautiful but who has sat in a three seater and with this design. Wonder how it would feel to sit in the centre and enjoy a drive with 2 people on both sides of you
Beautiful design, ultra aerodynamic, finally not another economically dumb brick-alike SUV approach👍 ... but probably also one of the most impractical cars ever built. This car makes no sense on a regular road, unless you live here in Germany and have no speed limit on many parts of the highway. But why do you have to have two more seats when made for the race track? Do you want to drive a race with two passengers on board? 🤣 I didn't see any barf-bags on the passenger seats either. I love the totally new acoustical approach to media ... it will sound so much better than any other sound system, feeding the audio waves directly to your ears. The best of that concept is that you can do active noise cancellation, making driving an extremely quiet experience👍 ... I presume its a powerful EV, not a an attention-seeking, stinky, loud, slow old-timer combustion concept. Who has time for the doors to open and close and the steering wheel to come closer to you ... I'd be on the road minutes ahead, which you will never catch up without breaking the speed limits ... so its purely made for people to show-off. Its ugly men's perfect "jewelry" 🤣
Marcello Gandini would’ve more likely approved of this design rather than the 2022 Lamborghini Countach in my opinion. Nothing against Lamborghini design department, they are still strikingly beautiful automotive sculpture, but this lotus’s DNA feels closer to the original concept of what the first wedge cars (especially the countach ‘71 prototipo, and the Lancia Stratos HF Zero) of the late 60’s - 80’s were trying to accomplish. The only thing I don’t like, is that this just might end up a tech demonstration platform. I wish this shape would exist in the real world with the bare minimum in electronics and more a celebration of mechanical simplicity. Add lightness! But alas I’m preaching to the choir, the times are changing and the world is starting to look unfamiliar to what I remember it as, lol. Anyways, good luck! - Some Joe Schmo Truck Driver from 🥔🏔️,🇺🇸. Where Corvettes 😀 are really the only exciting car we really ever see here in Idaho.
Lotus have lost there way, bring back the esprit and make it a hybrid like Ferrari sf90 and 296. Or sell the name so someone else will bring it back, maybe a v12😊😮
Cannot wait for Practice 1 to be announced
Lmao
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Ben. Stop talking like chat GPT and just tell us what it is, how much it weighs and how fun it will be.
This guy is the design chef, so it’s evident that he will tell you only about the design, especially that this is a concept car, so it’s made for show and not for the drive.
first time listening to a real engineer speak?
Now I can't unheard it
you dont know what goes into designing a car
I agree with you. I just watched the whole thing and I didn't get a single lotus vibe. So much talk about ergonomics and mood lighting, very little about actual engineering design and performance which is what lotus has always been about. Everything seemed to be orientated around "UI" and nothing to do with the power, suspension.
The opening of the doors takes ages! I love the design so much, I will wait for them.
Someone's imagination was on fire when this was dreamed. The super-science in this car is certainly mingled with the bright stuff of an incredible future.
I agree :) I see a lot of people complaining, but at the end of the day it’s a piece of human art. And I’m excited for what’s to come.
I feel like this man says "analog" a lot, but doesn't really know what it means . . .
“Analog and digital are words. We are going to use those words while talking about this concept car. This car has a top and I’m going to use the word digital. This car has a side and now I’m going to use the word analog.”
Makes perfect sense to me
Love this design. The high contrast angular body and the texture of the forged carbon interior. Honest materials and a cohesive concept, well executed. Please make this
Wow. This is a piece of art. And that was the first presentation that made me relax... 😄😂
And so the cyberpunk era of cars begins. The design looks amazing, the middle driving position is really interesting, but it draws some questions about security, like being able to integrate seat belts seamlessly. Of course it’s a concept car, but it would be interesting to see how a production car looks like.
On the other side, it wasn’t specified, but this much space in the cabin would only seem to be possible with an electric engine configuration. I’d also love to see how this integrates with Lotus’s low weight, fun car concept.
Without a doubt the future’s here and I’m all for it!
Nice concept. Put a proper engine in it and an actual steering wheel and I think there would be genuine interest.
You know it’s going to be electric…
Absolutely incredible. First modern concept that my jaw dropped. This is what I want in a design. The door design and functionality is outstanding - a solution to a long-standing design problem. Demonstrates sincere attention to detail. Phenomenal.
Seriously need the music, it's fire
some version of Hans Zimmer - Time
I'm 17, And that means I'm forced to grow up into a world that will be full of eclectic, automatic and relatively non-combustion vehicles. Although that truth is sad I feel honored that there are people and companies - like those at Lotus - that are not afraid to be bold and make the most of the future to come, even better they are helping bring that future to the present. Realistically I'll never be able to afford nor drive a car like this, but I'm grateful machines like this are finally here. Good on you all at Lotus
start trading forex now and in ten years buy a lotus
Get a old 350 chevy cheap keep it. Store gas rip it around when ur 25 lol
Lol. The electric car farse is already crumbling my dude. Don't worry. We got plenty of ICE cars for devades to come
You're 17 plenty of time to build your nest egg and afford more than this car: dream big!
Buy a gently used GTI and/or Miata and keep it forever. Manual transmissions, of course
Your customers, and private buyers in general, absolutely DO NOT wan't heavy, sterile EVs. Don't forget that.
Speak for yourself oldman
@@nasilemakletakicecream The market has already spoken loud and clear. Just look at sales figures and resale values of performance EVs.
Just look at the evija and the evija x man
@GAFUKIS and seen what? Customers do not want EVs , that's why the nevera sold around a third of it's intended units.
Mate Rimac himself said customers don't want EVs. They are sterile slop
For me, I want electric cars
Finally !!! I missed these style concept exercises good job it brings back the golden times of design bertone giugiaro
should be done totally digitally its an utter waste of resources to use so much that will be used by so few
@chrisjames7803 not really, a full scale concept study is useful to iron out the kinks of the design. Ofc they have made the 3d model first and foremost, but you could only see and feel so much through a screen. Anyway, more and more of these fullscale studies were made using recyclable materials to push your agendas, so you should be celebrating it
Finally something distinctive and interesting. Design of supercars in the last 5-10 years was universally approaching a singular shape due to aerodynamic requirements. My only critique is that the door opening speed needs to be at least tripled.
Excellent design
What comes next will be interesting indeed
It's stunning! A nod to the James Bond Lotus but with today's tech.
I hope Lotus builds this car exactly!
Yeah, was wondering where I had seen it before
Not Bond,, The Pink Panther
This is really futuristic,good job!
Ironic?
Lotus... invite Harry Metcalffe, give him a coffee and a conversation with Ben for halve an hour. You will get 25 X more views, a far more interesting and thorough video and most importantly: NO IRRITATING BACKGROUND MUSIC!!!
Amen!
Don't think Harry and Lotus are on the best of terms these days
@@nickb-If you can't stand the heat, get out of the business 🤷♂️
Lovely.... An Esprit class in the near 2024. Great to see Lotus continuing the climb far ahead of others.
Innovative design, revolutionary performance. Theory 1 is shaping the future of high-performance vehicles
Please keep the 3 seater design. This should be utilized more often, as should 2 + 2.
look at the way he steps out of the car, if he had any passengers he would have to sit on their laps to get out, or climb over their legs. it looks cool but it's not practical at all.
@@tails5907 Совершенно верно
@@tails5907 if you want practical, get a minivan. this is a performance vehicle.
it's so elegant. Truly, really good job
I love it aesthetically specifically the bar beneath the rear wing with the L O T U S badge on it, that is so nice
Awesome - can't wait to see the production models that incorporate some of these features! One thing though. Please put a proper ICE engine it it. I'd even accept, at a pinch a hybrid.
Lotus is done with ICE.
No, those days are over.
Lotus should do a deal with Koeniggssegg for that 600bhp 3 cylinder that was going in the Gemera 👌
@oneeleven9832 Why? Carwow exposed Koenigsegg as having poorly engineered vehicles that produce nowhere near the stated performance stats.
Ok, boomer…
This is one of the most beautiful shapes I've ever seen, it has tastefully placed sharp edges, it is indeed the marble statue of cars.
To you a Toyota pirus must be beautiful
Cool, but what exactly is next? Another SUV? Another big GT weighing 2.5 tons? Is all this work going to be wasted for better speakers in a new, heavy SUV?
I assume that making a production car exactly like this would be very expensive and unprofitable. But that was the idea - that SUVs and GTs would make money, and sports cars would give fun to users and satisfaction to their creators. Without this, Lotus will lose its sense of existence and will be just a name for Chinese EVs.
One of the greatest and most underrated British brands.
中国的！
lots of concepts these days. great pleasure to see. Now let's see something real guys, This is for ALL oems, not just lotus.
masterpiece the lotus design team is the best in the game right now .....all models are ahead of their time compared to way bigger brands with billion dollar budgets
love the brutal simplicity of the design
That is a stunningly beautiful design
When I was in high school (1990), I went to a car show in Atlanta. I saw "future cars" back then that looked similar to this. Don't hold your breath for this to come out. That front end won't look like that when they are forced to put a bumper on it.
Im torn between the admiration for the design and the cringe about all the touch and light stuff. Great concept overall though 🤩😍👍
Na, were already accustomed too touch mobiles ect.
Beautiful car, really. But, it says Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren all over it.
Fabulous design, congratulations!
Some stunningly beautiful design accents which will hopefully trickle down into production.
I particularly like the exposing of the mechanical elments and the idea of a Lotus that you can get in and out of with relative ease.
The OLED panel that 'talks to you' feels a bit gimmicky, i'd be interested to know the real world practical application.
As echoed by many in the comments, please, please, don't stop producing ICE vehicles.
The market has demonstrated there's little appetite for combining Supercar performance and price-tags with fully electric.
There's a reason why despite having all the music you could ever want accessible on your mobile phone, vinyl sales continue to soar.
You can't reproduce the textural experience of analogue with sanitised digital.
I'm digressing into the broader EV debate, but its particularly relevant to Lotus (even more than standard car manufacturers), because Lotus are founded on the Drivers experience and connection with the vehicle.
Design looks really nice! Just if doors opens slowly and outside ir raining max you'd get a bit of water until you'd enter a car :D
its amazing in real life the video isn't even doing it 10% justice !! totally wow
At long last the future loo like it's here. It's a stunning car. It's a lotus which means it will be an absolute dream around a track. Amazing job lotus
Stunning - absolute genius design!
Lotus is the most futuristic brand nowadays
True
This car is awsome. What a beautiful design!
It looks like Venom ...fresh design concept
They always come up with the wildest concepts but never deliver anything close in real life.
What about the production evija and evora vs the concept cars for those models?
still recovering from the trauma when Lotus presented a new Esprit, Eterne, Elite and Elise during the 2010 Paris Autoshow (look that up on RUclips)
Maybe this is a way to keep their designers feeling like they can explore their passion. Too much normal work might leave them uninspired. Still be better to just make them but could be part of it
Wish this was put into production. ❤
why??? 🤯
@@siitan83 what kind of dumb question is that? Obviously, they would like it to be put into production, because they think it's a nice car.
@@notjoevaping9600 its idiotic.. thats what it is .. a track toy at most... Its not even a car.. and some guys want to even see it produced 🤯 its surprising
Outstanding work!
This is the kind of car I used to design with my lego as a child! Stunning!
Beautiful design. Truly. Shame it won't have a symphony to take it to the next level. I already have enough computers in my life.
Meanwhile over at Jaguar... 😂
Looking forward to the resurgence of 1920s elegance in car design. This attempt to imagine the future looks like a click-bait tech product ad in a social media feed.
This is beyond gorgeous...this is glorious !!!
holy shit. this is a great look into the future. thank you!
it really reminds me of Gandini's masterpieces from the 70s and, of course, take it as a big compliment
Insane that a tiny company like Lotus can come up with something like this!
Stunning front, mid sides, OK rear
これからのLOTUSにどんな影響を与えるのか楽しみですよね🤗
All simply UNBELIEVABLE ! thank you #Lotus🇬🇧🇨🇳 #Theory1⚡️💪
If Lotus could make a somewhat affordable GT, like a 4 Series, I'd be first in line. I understand the original ethos of Lotus, but we're where we are now and I'd love to be able to own one.
precious piece of art. Will it be my christmas present? pretty please?
Looks like a Bullet from the side. I think the black and white gives this LA police 🚔 car vibe. At least you have the colour of the lotus logo changed, it looks sleek and classy instead of that bold yellow and black logo that looks like a Sticker and ruins the image of the car. It would be nice if you guys made the Emira into a 4 seater with a bit more horse power 🎉🎉🎉
Cool cockpit. Does it have a HUD?
Definitely a sharp looking car. Steer by wire is NOT a bragging point though.
Nice concept👌🏻
Stunning design
Looks really promising!
Cool! Need some white underflow to show off the underneath tech!
This should be the look of a Tesla sport's car to be honest 😺
Dear car companies, please make futuristic car designs with combustion engine and manual gearboxes thank you. - signed by a young person. (Aka your future target audience)
It can be either manual or a mix of manual with auto like Koenigsegg did. You are welcome.
I’m always here…. ✔️
me too
This is pretty cool. I would love to have this.
This is simple and elegant. I like it instantly. Everything Ferrari has lost touch with.
That looks like something you would park next to a Cybertruck 😬
I love how we're steering toward a Cyberpunk future. I fucking love that shit.
simply beautifull, passion, but but my question is if road debrids got stuck in the corner of that clear panel how do you clean it out?
Side looks like a LAMBO, Front is RARI. Color is Toyota AE86, TECH is BMW i8. I Love It
Chopped carbon fiber is not comparable to real layered carbon fiber.
Cannot wait, to buy it in a video game.
You guys really complexified and removed lightness
That looks great, proper supercar wedge shaped, currently waiting on my Eletre R!
I could care less about the 'intelligent driving' but the car is gorgeous and engineered around the driver which I love ❤
Well done guys
Insane concept 👍
3 seater is what makes it so intresting. Everyone can se its beautiful but who has sat in a three seater and with this design. Wonder how it would feel to sit in the centre and enjoy a drive with 2 people on both sides of you
Lotus and Jaguar have brought the British design school one step in front of the Italian.
Congrats for the brave step that many competitors did not have the courage to take
Okay this is very cool.
This is a beautiful car indeed..hands down
Beautiful design, ultra aerodynamic, finally not another economically dumb brick-alike SUV approach👍 ... but probably also one of the most impractical cars ever built.
This car makes no sense on a regular road, unless you live here in Germany and have no speed limit on many parts of the highway. But why do you have to have two more seats when made for the race track? Do you want to drive a race with two passengers on board? 🤣 I didn't see any barf-bags on the passenger seats either.
I love the totally new acoustical approach to media ... it will sound so much better than any other sound system, feeding the audio waves directly to your ears. The best of that concept is that you can do active noise cancellation, making driving an extremely quiet experience👍 ... I presume its a powerful EV, not a an attention-seeking, stinky, loud, slow old-timer combustion concept.
Who has time for the doors to open and close and the steering wheel to come closer to you ... I'd be on the road minutes ahead, which you will never catch up without breaking the speed limits ... so its purely made for people to show-off. Its ugly men's perfect "jewelry" 🤣
Simplify and add lightness indeed
Marcello Gandini would’ve more likely approved of this design rather than the 2022 Lamborghini Countach in my opinion.
Nothing against Lamborghini design department, they are still strikingly beautiful automotive sculpture, but this lotus’s DNA feels closer to the original concept of what the first wedge cars (especially the countach ‘71 prototipo, and the Lancia Stratos HF Zero) of the late 60’s - 80’s were trying to accomplish.
The only thing I don’t like, is that this just might end up a tech demonstration platform. I wish this shape would exist in the real world with the bare minimum in electronics and more a celebration of mechanical simplicity. Add lightness!
But alas I’m preaching to the choir, the times are changing and the world is starting to look unfamiliar to what I remember it as, lol.
Anyways, good luck!
- Some Joe Schmo Truck Driver from 🥔🏔️,🇺🇸. Where Corvettes 😀 are really the only exciting car we really ever see here in Idaho.
the designer must have been looking at a computer mice and though: "YOU KNOW WHAT, LETS MIX THAT WITH A LAMBO AND KEEP THE LED LIGHTS!"
js cuz it look different dont mean it look good
bros fluent in ChatGPT
honestly, after looking at this car for a couple of times, i quite like it
I fell asleep, had a dream, woke up and had breakfast all whilst the door opened.
ストラトスゼロの普遍性を証明するよなモックアップだな
But... Will it go underwater transforming into a pocket submarine?
Lotus have lost there way, bring back the esprit and make it a hybrid like Ferrari sf90 and 296. Or sell the name so someone else will bring it back, maybe a v12😊😮