Lotus on Tuesday unveiled a brand new mid-engine sports activities automobile referred to as the Emira as its “final hurrah” with inside combustion engines earlier than the famed luxurious automaker transitions to electrical autos.

The Emira will go on sale subsequent spring beginning at underneath $85,141 (72,000 euros), in line with Lotus. It is going to characteristic a prime velocity of 180 mph and hit 62 mph in lower than 4.5 seconds, the corporate mentioned.

“The Emira is a game-changer for Lotus. It stands as a beacon of the whole lot we’ve achieved thus far within the transformation of the enterprise, the embodiment of our progress,” Matt Windle, managing director of Lotus, mentioned in an announcement. “It’s a extremely vital milestone on our path to turning into a very international efficiency automobile model.”

The Emira is the primary new Lotus underneath the corporate’s”Vision80″ transformation plan by way of its eightieth anniversary in 2028. That features plans to completely promote electrical automobiles by then.

The automobile’s modern, but aggressive, design was impressed by the greater than $2 million Lotus Evija EV, in line with the corporate, which is owned by China-based Geely.

The automobile can be powered by a 3.5-litre V-6 engine from Toyota Motor or a 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine from Mercedes-Benz’s efficiency AMG unit. It is going to supply as much as 400 horsepower, with a most torque of about 317 foot-pounds, in line with Lotus.