It’s high times at Lotus. Following the Evija’s successful reveal, the firm has confirmed that it will continue readying itself for a major growth spurt by completing building work left unfinished when former boss Dany Bahar departed in 2012. CEO Phil Popham revealed to Automotive News Europe that the brand’s empty “skeleton building won't be a skeleton by the end of this year,” as it seeks to “quickly go beyond” the 1,700-unit output it managed in 2019.
Its aspirations do not stop there either. Popham suggested that Lotus would eventually ‘outgrow’ Hethel’s production capacity of more than 10,000 cars on two shifts, and spoke of the need for something ‘radical’ to happen at its current facility - or potentially somewhere else in the UK.
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...said that the company’s soon to grow range would continue to focus on cars within the £50,000 to £100,000 bracket...