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ALUMINUM FOIL; Lotus concept showcases what the Brit maker can do with one alloy.(News)
Byline: JULIAN RENDELL
Question: When is a multipurpose vehicle a mid-engine sports car?
Answer: When it's the APX concept that Lotus plans to reveal at the Geneva show.
Stretching platform engineering to previously unseen levels, the APX (so named for "Aluminum Performance Crossover'') showcases Lotus' nascent aluminum chassis technology, which the British firm would dearly love to sell to a major carmaker.
Aluminum chassis are relatively common these days: Audi has had the A8 among others since the mid-'90s, and Lotus launched the Elise in 1995 with a chassis made of bonded and riveted alloy extrusions. Even staid Jaguar's flagship (and its latest sports car) is made of the aerospace material.
What Lotus claims as unique about the new Versatile Vehicle Architecture (VVA) is the design of expensive castings that ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, ALUMINUM FOIL; Lotus concept showcases what the Brit maker can do...