Following on from Lotus’s announcement of impending job losses, some more bad news for the brand’s dwindling band of followers in the States: We’ve learned that the company’s last street-legal model, the Evora, is going to be withdrawn from sale in the U.S.
The news probably doesn’t come as a huge surprise. The 2014 Evora happened only because the company got a 12-month exemption on the federal requirement to fit smart airbags. That has now expired, and a highly placed source in a U.S. dealer group has confirmed that Lotus won’t be re-engineering the car to meet the new safety standards. So when the remaining inventory of 2014 cars is sold, a process that will likely take us well into 2015, Lotus dealers will be reduced to selling track-only variants of the Elise and Exige in the U.S.
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Will that be enough to keep business going? Let’s hope so, as it looks like it will be a long wait before Lotus introduces any new regular-production models for sale in America.
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