Lotus City Car confirmed, arrives in late 2013
At this year’s Paris Motor Show Lotus int
roduced 5 amazing concepts. One of these was a City Car Concept, that has now been confirmed for production and will arrive at Lotus showrooms in October 2013.
In an interview with Car Magazine, Lotus chief executive Dany Bahar said: ‘We are doing this together with Proton and another OEM [original equipment manufacturer, or car maker]. There will be one version for Asia, one for Europe and also a sportier version.
Lotus City Car to go into production in October 2013
Dany Bahar has exposed that the Lotus City Car concept has been confirmed and will be launched as a manufacture car in October 2013. He also mentioned that the car would be a project together with Proton and another car 
manufacturer, which leads us to believe that Proton and Lotus have found a suitable third party to share in the development costs of the vehicle, or at least grant a platform.
According to Bahar, there will be three cars spawned from the project – one for the Asian market (this should be Proton’s), one for the European market (the third party?) and a sportier account (this is the Lotus for sure). So who might this third party be? There has not been any official word yet but according to Autocar India back in November this year, the Nissan V platform might be used to strengthen the EMAS variety of cars. Since Nissan already has a V platform car – the March, if indeed rumours that this project would use the V platform is true, the European car in question could be some form of next generation Renault Clio perhaps? 2013 would be actually a good time to launch it since the present car launched in 2007 (and facelifted recently) would be owing for replacement by then.