{"id":499570,"date":"2021-12-26T13:43:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T21:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=126350"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:25:16","slug":"production-ends-for-lotus-elise-exige-and-evora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/production-ends-for-lotus-elise-exige-and-evora\/","title":{"rendered":"Production ends for Lotus Elise, Exige and Evora"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">On December 22nd<b>,\u00a0<\/b> Lotus commemorated the last of the Elise, Exige and Evora sports cars to be built.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The trio were photographed on site with many of the Lotus team who contributed to the design, engineering, assembly and sales of the cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Between these three model lines and over the course of 26 years, a total of 51,738 cars will have come off the production line. Combined, they represent almost half of the total production of Lotus in its 73-year history. In addition, 9,715 sports cars were built for Lotus\u2019 third-party clients, including GM and Tesla.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">From 1996 to 2000, the first-generation Elise and Exige sports cars were built in a small assembly hall at Hethel alongside the Lotus Esprit. The current assembly lines, which were installed in 2000, will be dismantled and replaced with all-new state-of-the-art facilities in support of the all-new Emira factory. Full Emira production begins in the spring, after the prototype and test phases currently underway are completed, taking Lotus sports car production into an exciting, high-tech and semi-automated era, and increasing capacity up to 5,000 units per year on a single shift pattern.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The last examples of the Elise, Exige and Evora models are reserved for Lotus\u2019 growing heritage collection.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Joining the collection will be the last Elise, a Sport 240 Final Edition finished in Yellow and the last of 35,124 cars; the last Exige, a Cup 430 Final Edition in Heritage Racing Green \u2013 number 10,497; and the last Evora \u2013 a GT430 Sport finished in Dark Metallic Grey \u2013 the last of a production run of 6,117.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">The Elise and Exige sports cars are built around the Lotus \u2018small car platform\u2019. On the same platform, and also manufactured by Lotus at Hethel were the Opel Speedster \/ Vauxhall VX220 (7,200 cars built between 2000 and 2005) and the Tesla Roadster (2,515 cars built between 2007 and 2012). Therefore, including the Lotus 340R, Europa, 2-Eleven and 3-Eleven cars, this brings the total Lotus small car platform production volumes to 56,618 cars.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Matt Windle, Managing Director, Lotus Cars, said: \u201cFirst of all, I would like to thank the Lotus team who have worked on the Elise, Exige and Evora over the years and who are now transferring to Emira and Evija manufacturing. I would also like to convey enormous gratitude to all the customers of the Elise, Exige and Evora over the last 26 years for their passion, enthusiasm and support. These customers have given our \u2018three Es\u2019 true cult status \u2013 usually reserved for long-out-of-production classics. As we say farewell to the last few cars, we look forward to the Emira and Evija in the all-new factories at Hethel and sub-assembly facilities in Norwich, which introduce greater efficiencies and automation, higher quality and flexibility and the hugely exciting next chapter in our Vision80 strategy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 22nd,\u00a0 Lotus commemorated the last of the Elise, Exige and Evora sports cars to be built. The trio were photographed on site with many of the Lotus team who contributed to the design, engineering, assembly and sales of the cars. Between these three model lines and over the course of 26 years, a total of 51,738 cars will have come off the production line. 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