The long-awaited Lotus SUV is still four to five
years away from launching but if these renderings from Angelo Polo Gallardo
even slightly resemble the finished product, we'd be very interested.
Considering how far away the vehicle is from hitting
the streets, it’s impossible to determine what it will look like. Despite that,
the designer has taken a number of familiar Lotus design elements and combined
them into a sporty and compact SUV that could be slightly smaller than the Audi
Q2 and sold exclusively as a three-door.
Looking beyond the windshield and side windows which
have been painted over, the rest of the so-called Lotus ‘Evolve’ adopts an
aggressive shape that is angled steeply towards a relatively low-front end.
Character lines on the doors stretch up from above the front wheel arches, past
the small side windows and through to the B-pillars.
Other noteworthy design elements include angular
headlights and taillights, a set of large wheels and a familiar green and
yellow paint scheme. The British automaker has yet to give the model the thumbs
up for production but when it does, it seems inevitable that it’ll be one of
the lightweight and most sporty crossovers on the market.
