Lotus re-engineers the Toyota Venza

 

wow.there will be no stopping toyota soon,or now.

 

Since the impact is proportional to the mass, a 38% reduction has to be a good thing!

 

not really.


you have to go 38% faster for the same results.

 

The last tour of Lotus I did focussed on the non-badge elements of their work quite heavily i.e. the consultancy role they play

Fair play to them and a bold move for Toyota - mature and wise enought o recognise that even though they are (or were) the largest car manufacturer in the world, they may not have have all the skills in house.

 

Long may then continue their consultancy.

Since it pays for road car development

 

not really - there's a square proportion on the velocity, which is what encourages the tremblies to believe any movement as being certainly fatal.

It may be if they don't move out my bloody way fast enough.

 

"Lotus Engineering hopes to get the techniques used to lighten the Venza study vehicle into mass-market production pipelines by 2020. "

Progress at last is stretching it a bit

 

Given the long tooling cycles & model cycles, that's really only two Aurises away.

Given the backwardness of car design over the past decade, it's a welcome relief.

 

Nick, did you write that last paragraph of the article?