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Yahoo
an hour ago
- Automotive
- Yahoo
WATCH: Lotus Evija review Our fastest ever road test
This is the Lotus Evija and in the near 100 years that Autocar has been fixing timing gear to cars to see how fast they'll go, no car has ever accelerated as quickly as this. Lotus's £2m, 2013bhp electric hypercar is astonishingly fast. Unlike most EVs, which accelerate quickly from rest and then run out of puff, once the Evija gets going, it just keeps going. And going. How fast? It reaches 200mph almost ten seconds quicker than a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport. It takes less than half the time of a McLaren F1. Over a standing kilometre, where the incredibly rapid Lamborghini Revuelto will reach 186mph, the Evija reaches its top speed ... of 217mph. What does this acceleration look and feel like? And, once you get your head around the acceleration, just what is this hypercar like to drive? Join Matt Prior at Lotus's test track for the answers in our video by clicking above. ]]>
Auto Car
4 hours ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
This ELECTRIC car just ripped up Autocar's road test record book - it leaves the McLaren F1 for dust!
The Lotus Evija hypercar - at the time of its announcement, the most powerful road-legal car to enter series production - has set a series of new searing performance benchmarks as part of its full Autocar Road Test. First shown to the world in 2019, with deliveries to customers beginning in 2024, the Evija has swept all before it among yardsticks for acceleration particular to higher speed ranges. It is now the quickest car recorded in Autocar's annals of road test performance figures, which themselves date back more than a century, when measured from standing to 150mph; and to 200mph; and over both a standing quarter-mile and kilometre. Moreover, the margin of its dominance in at least three of those four measurements is monumentally large. 'The Evija's acceleration feels fast, but less exceptionally so through both 60- and 100mph,' said Autocar Road Test Editor Matt Saunders. 'But the extraordinary potency of its four electric motors, combined with the car's improving capacity to put that power down as downforce builds on its body, makes it downright staggering to experience beyond 100mph.' 'From 100- to 150mph, it's almost three seconds faster than any other hypercar we've ever figured; from 150- to 200-, more like five seconds. It can accelerate from 150- to 180mph in the same time (2.7sec) that it takes a BMW M4 CS to get from 60- to 90-.' The Evija becomes only the third road-legal production car that Autocar has tested all the way to 200mph; which it cleared leaving plenty of room for braking within a measured mile. 'We habitually figure cars over a standing kilometre as part of our road test benchmarking, in order that we've always got some safety margin' Saunders continued. 'It's rare, but not unknown, for road-legal cars to be doing more than 180mph at that point. But the Evija went past the kilometre marker at fully 217.4mph, already straining against its electronic speed limiter.' Autocar's landmark ten-page road test of the £2mil, 2013bhp Evija is in the 30th July print issue of Autocar, on newsagents' shelves today, which is also available in digital form here.
Auto Car
5 hours ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
My Week In Cars: New Steve Cropley/Matt Prior podcast (ep.151)
Close The 151st episode of My Week In Cars finds Steve Cropley and Matt Prior chatting about the auction price of some recent classic cars, including a near £300,000 Ford Escort. EV values come into their sights, with a BMW i3 as a notable exception to the current rule, while Prior talks dashcams and the pair discuss much more besides including your correspondence. Make sure you never miss an Autocar podcast. Subscribe to our podcasts via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcasts or via your preferred podcast platform. And if you subscribe, rate and review the pod, we'd really appreciate that too.
Auto Car
5 hours ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
Autocar's fastest-accelerating Road Test cars
The Autocar Road Test first appeared in print in April 1928. Since then, thousands of cars have been given the treatment. Our testing methods have developed over time, but our results with accompanying empirical testing, have remained rigorous and fiercely independent. The £2million, 2013bhp Lotus Evija hypercar has smashed several records, cutting our established 0-200mph benchmark by a massive 40 per cent. Its superiority is not as broad as you might think, though. As monumental as the Lotus is, it doesn't actually take the crown of our 0-60mph test or 0-100mph test. Intrigued? Keep scrolling to discover the fastest accelerating cars to ever hit our timing gear. Autocar's landmark ten-page road test of the £2mil, 2013bhp Evija is in the 30th July print issue of Autocar, on newsagents' shelves today, which is also available in digital form here. 0-60mph 1. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 2.4sec =2. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 2.5sec =2. Porsche 911 Turbo S (2022) - 2.5sec =2. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 2.5sec =5. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 2.6sec =5. Porsche 918 Spyder (2014) - 2.6sec =5. Porsche Taycan Turbo S (2024) - 2.6sec 0-100mph 1. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 4.6sec =2. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 4.8sec =2. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 4.8sec =2. Lotus Evija (2025) - 4.8sec 5. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 5.0sec 0-150mph 1. Lotus Evija (2025) - 7.7sec 2. Tesla Model S Plaid (2023) - 9.4sec 3. Lamborghini Revuelto (2024) - 10.0sec 4. Bugatti Veyron Super Sport (2011) - 10.2sec 5. Ferrari SF90 Stradale (2021) - 10.4sec
Auto Car
a day ago
- Automotive
- Auto Car
Maserati 'cancelled' the electric MC20 - but don't write it off for good...
The electric version of the Maserati MC20 supercar could still see the light of day if the market picks up, says Maserati, after it cancelled the model earlier this year, citing insufficient demand. Promising huge power and similar dynamics to those of the V6 car, the MC20 Folgore would have been the first electric supercar on sale – the circa-2000bhp Rimac Nevera, Pininfarina Battista and Lotus Evija meriting full-bore hypercar status. Its potentially seminal status was ultimately its downfall, though, with nothing comparable on sale against which it could be benchmarked. Maserati wasn't confident it would attract a sufficient number of buyers away from V6 and V8-engined alternatives to recoup the substantial development costs. Maserati CEO Santo Ficili stands by the decision and told Autocar: 'I don't think it's the right time to take this kind of supercar in the electrification direction.' But he added that the MC20 Folgore project was on pause, rather than cancelled, and the car could yet make production as the MCPura Folgore. 'Let's say we will see,' he said when asked if the firm's supercar could yet go electric. 'The project is [advanced], but we decided to wait to understand what is going to happen.' There are no immediate plans to begin development again. Ficili said: 'We have this fantastic [V6] engine that is to the satisfaction of our customers. We hold a different kind of power. This is our engine at this time.' He added that he did not have the 'crystal ball' to see when there will be a market for an electric supercar, and that it was crucial 'to have the customer ready to buy a car like this' before investing further. In the meantime, Ficili went as far as to suggest Maserati could launch a new ICE-powered, manual-shifting super-GT flagship, in partnership with Alfa Romeo. This would be likely to use the 3.0-litre twin-turbo Nettuno V6 that powers the MC20 and Granturismo. The firm's technical boss Davide Danesin Maserati engineering boss Davide Danesin said "there are still customers looking for pure mechanical cars,' because they have a 'bad feeling' about having a battery on board a supercar, due to the heightened complexity and extra weight it brings.
