It was only two years ago that Lotus enthusiastically announced five (!) New models in concept form and showed them in Paris. Suddenly there where the Elise, Elite, Elan, Eterne and Esprit. Terms like ‘hay’ and ‘fork’ were soon used, and not unjustly, because these plans are pretty toned be it canceled when CEO Dany Bahar was requested to take it’s designs some elsewhere. Only the last one, the successor to the legendary Esprit, was still in the pipeline. Lotus was already working on that when they put Bahar at the top.