Lotus City Car approved for production

They will all be Lotus badged.

I think the intention was to have manufacturers improve their engines' efficiency and making them more environmentally friendly. Manufacturers would have to spend resources on making cleaner fuel efficient cars, luxury and sportscar brands included. In reality, manufacturers were looking for "smart" ways to bypass these regulations and so they spawned lots of cars with tiny engines instead of focusing on R&D (based on the reverse American principle bigger = more power, smaller = less fuel). The fundamental problem is that it's impossible for sportscar manufacturers to meet the new regulation standards and so they have to result to either merging with a mainstream company (VW and Porsche) or buying a city car from another manufacturer (abomination Aston Martin IQ). The road to hell is paved with good intentions and in the case above you are getting an overpriced Proton with a Lotus badge and some stitching...

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Funny, I actually really like it... much nicer than the AM or Smart