2011 Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept Review

2011 Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept

Lotus has announced today that it will be bringing a brand new concept car to the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance taking place this weekend. Depicted in this single image, the new concept is called the 2011 Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept and it's essentially a road going version of the Evora GTE race car Lotus currently fields in several FIA GT sanctioned events.

You’ll note that Lotus plans to start racing once again in the U.S. with its Evora GTE race car, so it comes as no surprise that this concept is being shown in California. The concept strongly points at a production version, and comes with a race-bred engine developing a healthy 420 horsepower, all of which is fed through a sequential AMT racing gearbox and put to the pavement through ultra-lightweight forged alloy wheels wrapped in Pirelli P-Zero Corsa tires.

Lotus says the 2011 Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept features a “race-developed engine” with more than 313kW of power. It is not yet known whether this will be a highly tuned version of the 3.5-litre supercharged engine from the Evora S (257kW/400Nm) or a detuned version of the 4.0-litre Toyota Cosworth V6 from the actual GTE race car.
The engine of 2011 Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept will be teamed with a sequential automated manual transmission, promising even sharper performance than the 4.8-second 0-100km/h sprint and 277km/h top speed of the Evora S.
Following its official unveiling at McCall’s Motorworks Revival on August 17, the 2011 Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept will head to the Concours event at Pebble Beach for the remainder of the weekend.

Source : motorauthority