{"id":132015,"date":"2024-06-15T07:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autocar.co.uk\/car-news\/features\/new-world-order-lotus-eletre-vs-audi-sq8-e-tron"},"modified":"2024-06-15T07:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T06:01:45","slug":"new-world-order-lotus-eletre-vs-audi-sq8-e-tron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/new-world-order-lotus-eletre-vs-audi-sq8-e-tron\/","title":{"rendered":"New world order: Lotus Eletre vs Audi SQ8 E-tron"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lotus<\/a><\/p>\n

\n More than 1000bhp and \u00a3200k between them, but which should you choose?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Audi is a master of electric SUVs, but Lotus is a rookie. Can the Eletre hold its own against the SQ8?<\/p>\n

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For years \u2013 for decades, even \u2013 there\u2019s nothing. You can trawl for as long as you like through Autocar\u2019s rather wonderful digital archive: incidences of the Lotus<\/a> and Audi<\/a> brands \u2013 so distant from each other for so long, operating within market niches entirely discrete from one another \u2013 finding their way into competition in the same group test simply don\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2006, shots were fired: the Audi R8<\/a> appeared, and the following year it won our annual Britain\u2019s Best Driver\u2019s Car contest \u2013 beating a Lotus 2-Eleven in the process. The Lotus Evora<\/a> returned fire in 2009, winning the title outright and beating the V10-engined incarnation of the R8 back into joint fifth place.<\/p>\n

From there on out, suddenly there are semi-regular meetings: of Evoras and Elise<\/a>s coming up against R8s and TT<\/a>s \u2013 some going Audi\u2019s way, others Lotus\u2019s. All the while, Audi was trying to convince everyone that it could be a sports car<\/a> brand \u2013 and for some of that period it made an all right job of it.<\/p>\n

Now it has stopped \u2013 or at least taken a hiatus \u2013 and the tables have turned. Suddenly it\u2019s Lotus\u2019s turn to spread its wings, now under Chinese<\/a> ownership, and seek to become something entirely new.<\/p>\n

Whether you or I feel instinctively that Lotus has got a snowball\u2019s chance in hell of success \u2013 of becoming the broad-batted, multi-faceted, soon-to-be-all-electric modern luxury-performance brand that it aims to be, rivalling Porsche<\/a>, Mercedes-AMG<\/a>, BMW<\/a> M and God knows how many others \u2013 is likely to be a matter of, shall we say, \u2018interested conjecture\u2019.<\/p>\n

The point is this: Lotus is no longer that same company we think we know. After so many wilderness years, we need no longer debate any of the following: that Hethel\u2019s new plan is really serious and now actually happening. The Lotus Eletre is here. And, my goodness, it\u2019s a whole heap of different.<\/p>\n

Read our Lotus Eletre review<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Read our Audi SQ8 E-tron review<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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