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If you think about it, counting this Lotus Circuit Experience Camp Advanced Xiamen Station event, I am only the second test drive of this Lotus Eletre: the first test drive was on the mountain road in Yunnan, when the car was still in the process of final commissioning, and the car factory was very eager to know how I felt after the test, and I also gave some pertinent advice, including some marketing suggestions.
More than half a year later, Lotus Eletre has begun to deliver small batches, from engineering vehicles to production vehicles, from mountain roads to tracks, we meet again, and the feeling is still sharp.
To emphasize, this Lotus Experience Camp is not a media session. In fact, most of the time, it is aimed at Lotus owners or potential owners, such as Emira, Eletre's large subscription users.
Lotus has a clear slogan: For the Drivers, driving is at the heart of the brand's DNA and has played an important role in the history of racing and circuits for the past 75 years.
Speaking of the test drive activity, the activity is divided into two parts: the main individual training in the morning, each individual event is to run Xiamen International Circuit for 2-3 consecutive turns, deeply feel the brakes, chassis and acceleration performance of Lotus Eletre; The afternoon schedule was relatively simple: driving the Lotus Eletre for a full lap and driving the Lotus Evora for timing laps were more exciting, a good run in a small race, and a good ranking, but more importantly, after most of the day of study, I also knew this Lotus Eletre better.
Lotus Eletre is positioned as a supercar pure electric SUV, simply understood as a super car + pure electric SUV hybrid, for understanding this car, I think this kind of track activity is still very necessary: because only in the track environment, everyone can "let go" to experience its performance.
In addition to the suspension form is similar to the supercar layout, I think this 6D chassis (six dimensions) is really amazing, such as over a corner, you can often turn 10-20km/h faster than expected, it can be handled, and the body tilt is much lower than expected: the S+ version breaks 100 in 4.5 seconds, but the actual body feeling is also very exciting. I think this is also an important reason why Lotus dares to define the Eletre as a supercar SUV, with speed and experience.
It is worth mentioning that there are 7 sets of Race Aero aerodynamic air ducts on the car, with active rear wings, active air intake grilles, split wind-breaking tails, etc., which bring practical results for airflow combing and high-speed downforce improvement: the faster the speed, the more obvious the effect. Because of electric vehicles, the Lotus Eletre is indeed not as light as the Lotus in the past, but the understanding and interpretation of airflow dynamics is still online.
It is worth mentioning that the lap part of the day was competed with the Evora GT410 Sport. At the Xiamen International Circuit, I had the opportunity to revisit this old generation Lotus, although the car is larger than the Exige and Elise, but the rear dynamics are very vivid. Although this car has made a compromise on the setting for Lotus, it is still a hardcore existence in the entire sports car industry.
The Lotus Eletre undoubtedly belongs to a new beginning for the brand: it is the first SUV in the brand's history; The first all-electric model; It has 800V fast charging, it is very luxurious, but it still puts driving and extreme tuning on the "lips", there are many people compare it with Porsche, I think at least until Porsche makes a true pure electric SUV, Lotus Eletre is still unique! So to answer you like this: whether it's running a mountain or running a track, it's the right way to open it.