Designers say it can be partly driven like a car and partly flown like a fighter jet and features morphing body panels that can change their shape at the touch of a button to increase downforce.
It doesn t have wings, but it looks like it could fly.
In honor of the last year of production for the legendary Lotus Elise and Exige lightweight sports cars, the brand announced final editions of both earlier this month as a new chapter gets underway. But Lotus has plans beyond new road-going sports cars and has just revealed the sensational E-R9.
As a design study for an all-electric next-generation endurance racer, the E-R9 serves as a potential preview of what a Le Mans racer could look like in the year 2030. E-R stands for Endurance Racer and 9 is the competition number that is a throwback to the marque s racing past. In 1955, the Lotus Mark IX was the car in which the race team debuted at Le Mans.