With so many fans around the globe drawing, sculpting endless Lotus concepts, we're actually very puzzled with the new Evora, of how all these designs and concepts manage to escape Lotus' engineers and designers except the fact that they could be from Manchurian era's foreign ministry.
A recent design study from David Fearnly, a graduate from Transportation Design Course at Northrumbia University. Aside from groundbreaking technologies 'supposed-to-be-integrated-but-somehow-seemingly-far-fetched-ideas' the really interesting part is of course how good this Eigne concept looks, and the ingenuity in it's ergonomics design.
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Utilizing the Mclaren F1's seating layout (Which we find as the undisputed, best), the Eigne's driving position is situated in the middle, with to passengers each at one side slightly behind the driver, and a nice, cosy baby seat right behind the driver. This arrangement is made possible given the Eigne is an electric car powered by 4 in-wheel electric motors that draw power from the flat battery housed right beneath the entire passenger cell.
This sandwich arrangement allows for a very spacious interior where the wheelbase was utilized fully, and the placement of the battery is the lowest point where the center of gravity of any car goes; and it's at the dead center of the car, like a midship engine sportscar, giving the car an extremely agile front end for extreme, precise maneuvering.
Truely the work of a genius, because of the unique seating position, Fearnly had added nice touches to the doors that stretches wayward to portions of the roof (ala Ford GT), allowing easier entry for the driver. However such door arrangement if opened like a conventional door, passengers will not be able to get out of the car in tight spaces where the door could merely be opened, it would be great if all supercar's doors open like it does with the Koeniggsegg.
