Trash lotus can't drive safely in a straight line. It's heavy so it should have decent downforce. How pathetic. Lotus = Lots of Trouble Usually Serious - Jeremy Clarkson
It's not a Lambo, it's a fancy Audi with Lambo badges on it. Also, the Lotus is not a Lotus, it's a fancy Geeley with Lotus badges on it. You'd have to be f*ck*ng mad to spend 6 figures on either of these two turkeys.
@dj1nnie makes me appreciate my W204 C63. 1600kg and it has 4 doors and a 6.2L v8. But no turbos, no electric motors / batteries, and guess what? Doesn't need them! And sounds amazing. Will never ever sell it. My daily driver and maintenance cost is basically zero. Fuel economy isn't great in traffic but highway economy is actually pretty good!
@@fakamada These are both terrible cars - one is a German car assembled (badly) in Italy and pretending to be Italian, and the other is a Chinese car assembled in China pretending to be British.
@@fakamada The difference with MG is nobody except car enthusiasts remember MG - they were out of production for 20 years, and in most markets, you couldn't even buy one for the last 40 years, and they had been junk for longer than that. Also the Chinese MG's are actually really good value for money. Lotus is a performance icon, now Geeley has bought it so they can use it to sell overpriced & under-developed Chinese junk to western idiots. Pretty clear from how messed up this car was the entire way through the racing that it is based on a Geeley platform and Geeley electronics that aren't suitable for a performance car. Good for them if it works though - a fool and their money as they say.
With all the comments and all the back and forth, the best thing? Seeing Yianni back healthy taking the piss out of Mat. Welcome back mate, glad you are healthy! Cheers!
It's actually not heavy when compared to other EVs.... So still a Lotus DNA but in EV form, not to mention also that it have over twice of Urus downforce
As Jeremy Clarkson once said about Lotus: “Some viewers don’t know this but Lotus does not have a good reputation for quality. Some say this stands for *points at the Lotus badge* Lots of Trouble Usually Serious.”
@Winter_Wyvern1trust me mate. I’m tired of carwow videos due to the long ass pep talk at the beginning + carwow commercial. Drag races should’ve been a simple 5 min video but they make it a 30 min long video 🤦🏽♂️.
@@69op2gg1005ify0m It's all software with electric - I'm sure there are improvements to be made to the code to prevent that level of slippage and adjustments on torque vectoring.
Oooooh yeahhh baby !!! Yianni , the man is back !!! Believe me I’ve waited for every single upload , just to see maybe maybe if he’s back . And Finally wait is over . Big fan
I fuckin love watching Yanni the faces he makes when he is either winning or losing is hilarious, and then way calls Matt selective bias 😆 to his face is also hilarious. These 2 have a great chemistry.
I don't even understand how "off means off" for traction control works in an EV. Does that mean mashing the accelerator just sends full current and voltage to the motors? That's completely mental.
no, it's just stability program off. So no braking when you spin out. With stability on, you get some braking on the sides to get you in track. Would you send full power to all motors on a slippy street you would have wheelspin all over the track.
Its not every day you see a vehicle with more drama than a Lambo. Faster, wilder, more drama, more fussing and some may say better looking. Well done Lotus. That is one wild ride. I hope it sells,
Lotus is under 1/2 of the price and significantly faster! Quite an incredible achievement considering EV's are still improving. Wonder what the real world range is of both cars. On paper Urus has 277 mile range and Lotus is 305 miles.
Bro if audi made a 900hp electric suv it would destroy this easily. I mean look at the taycan GT it would destroy this with less power and a proper launch.
Good to see Yianni back!!! But we want to see the Lotus race again in normal weather conditions..maybe the wet track is not allowing the car to show its full potential
@@The-Celestial No, it's not - not for the Eletre R anyway. They might do a bit of suspension tuning, but the platform is the Geeley SEA architecture - it's 100% Chinese designed and manufactured. Geeley try to pretend the architecture was designed in conjunction with their Swedish "subsidiary", Volvo - but that's just more spin - it's 100% Chinese - it just made financial sense to do it that way. Geeley are in the business of buying previously prestigious names and using them to over-charge for Chinese quality vehicles. If you are happy paying European prices for Chinese products, then no problem and all good for you. I mean, lets face it, Chinese stuff is probably better than European stuff at this point - but you can also get Chinese stuff much cheaper if you don't buy it with the fake European badge slapped on it.
great video...nice to see Yianni back. That Lotus think's it's an 80's 911 Turbo (930 widow maker) I wouldn't touch that with a bargepole. imagine if that sidekick would have happened on the road, straight into on coming traffic.
That's why I love my Tesla Model 3 Performance..it costs peanuts compared to these cars but It still does 1/4 mile in 11.5s consistently without any nonsense launch control.
No kidding! 5 year old Teslas are broken down and falling apart compared to pretty much any legacy car manufacturer. They're a tech company, not a car company.
I hear ya. Had a M3 and an M5 and the Model 3 is far more consistent. The haters just hear media talking points and will never step out to try new powertrains.
@@MrBeckPJ Hmm. Must be driving a fake Model 3 then. Mine has been rock solid. Changed wipers, air filters and tires couple times, but that's about it. 98K kilometres right now, and still gets away just as fast as 5 years ago.
@@Jeroenneman really? I have no doubt you've taken extra good care of your car, so it's probably closer to the exception than the rule. But check out plenty of TH-cam videos featuring 4 or 5 year old Teslas, comparing them to brand new Teslas, and there is a huge drop off in build quality, fit & finish, etc. Talk to anyone whose owned one longer than a lease and they'll tell you: only lease these things. Just like Land Rover, they basically fall apart as soon as the warranty expires.
The Lotus without any driver assistance and without stability control is like driving an early BMW 323i from 1980 or a 911 Turbo. Driver skills are the name of the game here.
Dude those are really nice KEF UNI-Q coaxial speakers. It's the legit real deal industry leading stuff. The option just cost an arm and a leg. Welcome to modern aggressively Capitalist china. Its all about the $$$.
Sell your car for free with Carwow: bit.ly/-Sell-Your-Car-For-Free-3003
mk
good🥰🥰
LAST JDM CAR RACE MATT TUNED PLs
You gave me 6k for my car, don’t even.
Trash lotus can't drive safely in a straight line. It's heavy so it should have decent downforce. How pathetic.
Lotus = Lots of Trouble Usually Serious - Jeremy Clarkson
I’m back baby! Also after you watch this I uploaded a video talking to Mat about what really happened! Enjoy!
FINALLY
wsg
The king is back!
I miss you yianni hope your recovering well
You been gone for a while glad u back tho
"Once the stability control is gone, you have no stability" ....Lotus
Lotus: ESC OFF means OFF no nannies
I like lotus a lot.
@@Neojhunsame, if it's off, it's off. That's how it works
That’s why i like BMW. ESC off means OFF!
@@CK-nj5ug BMW fall apart
@@svenis97And than you crash to tree:):)
Almost crashed into Yianni on his first day back 😂😂
I know right lol
Yianni didn't even wanna race Mat anymore after that, facial expressions says it all!
😂😂😂
Where's Jim Clark when you need him? 😂
@@andyelliott8027Jackie Stewart and Mika Hakkinen also
Great to see Yianni back, and even in a Lambo. Good stuff guys.
It's not a Lambo, it's a fancy Audi with Lambo badges on it. Also, the Lotus is not a Lotus, it's a fancy Geeley with Lotus badges on it. You'd have to be f*ck*ng mad to spend 6 figures on either of these two turkeys.
@@Beer_Dad1975you cant afford the lambo , go cry in your beat up volvo broke ass
@@Beer_Dad1975it's a Lambo but "audi"fied
And more expensive for the same performance. Why? Just because it's a Lamborghini
900hp Electric SUV + Soaking Wet Runway + ESC OFF. Yet the Lotus staff actually let him do that. That's taking some wild risk.
They’re glad literally anyone is driving that POS
2,640 kg.
@@conor7154 PoS? That car is amazing.
@@conor7154here comes the guy whose whole argument is just "ooh china bad"
@@conor7154here is the guy that goes “oh electric = bad”
Watching this in my toilet..
Omg, samesies. Poop buddies?
Same
😂😂😂😂 crazy that I'm also in the toilet
@Tiger10002you're getting that camera!!
Same
Lotus: "Weight is the enemy of performance"
Also Lotus: New car weighs 2.7 tonnes
See the new M5 hybrid weighing at 2435 kg, even more than their full electric i5 M60...
@dj1nnie makes me appreciate my W204 C63. 1600kg and it has 4 doors and a 6.2L v8. But no turbos, no electric motors / batteries, and guess what? Doesn't need them! And sounds amazing. Will never ever sell it. My daily driver and maintenance cost is basically zero. Fuel economy isn't great in traffic but highway economy is actually pretty good!
Colin Chapman: Simplify, then add Lightness.
Clearly lost the memo.
must be the reason the company was going bankrupt and got bought by a Chinese company!
@@stevenspilly are you sure you have really no battery in your car? :D
Please redo this race on a dry day…
This is better. Urus doesn't deserve a humiliation.
in the UK?🤣
@@fakamada These are both terrible cars - one is a German car assembled (badly) in Italy and pretending to be Italian, and the other is a Chinese car assembled in China pretending to be British.
@@Beer_Dad1975 Lotus doesn't give a single f*ck about being British. Neither MG does. Stop spreading these weird ideas.
@@fakamada The difference with MG is nobody except car enthusiasts remember MG - they were out of production for 20 years, and in most markets, you couldn't even buy one for the last 40 years, and they had been junk for longer than that. Also the Chinese MG's are actually really good value for money. Lotus is a performance icon, now Geeley has bought it so they can use it to sell overpriced & under-developed Chinese junk to western idiots. Pretty clear from how messed up this car was the entire way through the racing that it is based on a Geeley platform and Geeley electronics that aren't suitable for a performance car.
Good for them if it works though - a fool and their money as they say.
With all the comments and all the back and forth, the best thing? Seeing Yianni back healthy taking the piss out of Mat. Welcome back mate, glad you are healthy! Cheers!
I love how Yianni insisted on the sound check because he knew it was his best chance of winning something 😜🤣🤣🤣
😂
How long until we see a Mat Armstrong “I bought a wrecked Lotus Eletre” video 😅
Yes 😂
Highly unlikely really, he's a gas guy and likes his sound, EV's don't make exhaust or engine sound, they're fast, but soulless... 🤷♂️
@@johnnygeorgopoulos4072 Do you mean "you prefer Nokia feature phones to Apple smartphones"? Because smartphones have no soul?
@@leeh1626 Pure Android, no Apple, no iOS, no BS
why so eager?
Great to see you two guys on the track together again. Great humor and theater ❤
Baer🐻 back..Nooo
Lotus making heavy suv's... hell freezes over...
Lotus making lightweight SUV’s keeping to the Ethos as always.
Lotus just trying to survive so they can continue producing sports cars.
@@mathiaspreissler1 The thing is they said they only making ev from now on
Lotus making cars that are commercially viable and may sell in numbers that guarantee the future of the company, how very dare they 😂
It's actually not heavy when compared to other EVs.... So still a Lotus DNA but in EV form, not to mention also that it have over twice of Urus downforce
Yiannie is back YOOOOO let's goooooo
😂😊
@@yiannimize Legend thanks for replying 🙏🙏😭😭
@@Lemingtona-x5g Bro you're SUS or something
@@aloniabasmerom8868 calling someone a bro and someone a legend for? doesn't sound SUS? you're even using crying emoji
@@Lemingtona-x5gdo u know what sense is?
Gotta love the lotus gus saying "for us when its off, its off."
Anybody else get immediately disappointed when these drags happen in wet conditions? LET THE DOGS EAT ON DRY PAVEMENT!!!
11:24 He was about to send Yianni back to the hospital 🏥 😂 “That’s a quick SUV”
I know right 😂
FR
Lotus unreliable junk
Need to see this Lotus up against a Tesla Model X plaid, but with better tyres and a dryer track.
Welcome back Yianni 👍🏻
And fixed launch...
Lotus: "You are completely on your own now. Be prepared."
What about Tesla Model X Plaid vs Lotus Elise 190 vs Elise 111R Race Car vs Eletre R?
No we don't
@@purwantiallan5089190/11 lose for sure you need something waay faster.
maybe Lotur F1 car?
As Jeremy Clarkson once said about Lotus: “Some viewers don’t know this but Lotus does not have a good reputation for quality. Some say this stands for *points at the Lotus badge* Lots of Trouble Usually Serious.”
He said that a very long time ago, talking about Lotus cars from the 90s and before. Lotus Elise was an incredibly successful production car.
@@raveninnsbruck9166 Helped that they started using other people's engines (Rover K and Toyota engines) rather than their own
Omg I’ve never ever heard that before …..wow what a guy. Gimp.
As people say ''Toyota have reputation for quality'' 'but Carwow is biased and promotes unreliable German brands
@@Lemingtona-x5g Only people that don’t like cars buy Toyotas horrible cars.
Always a great video when Yianni's back!
Yes, Yainni is back! Glad to see he's good and back at it.
Saw the registration plate on the Urus and saw Yianni was back. Yessss!
Race starts at 6:10
Doing God’s work
@@moiseulpasmoilet Eletre cook, man. Let Eletre R COOK.
Entertainment starts at 0.01
@Winter_Wyvern1 calm down dear it's a commercial
@Winter_Wyvern1trust me mate. I’m tired of carwow videos due to the long ass pep talk at the beginning + carwow commercial. Drag races should’ve been a simple 5 min video but they make it a 30 min long video 🤦🏽♂️.
Glad to see you're back, Yianni in go mode! Great show, gents!
The old LOTUS acronym Lots of Trouble Usually Serious. New one is Lack of Traction Utterly Scary.
900hp with Pirelli zero on wet track and TCS off...GL with this on any car
@@69op2gg1005ify0m It's all software with electric - I'm sure there are improvements to be made to the code to prevent that level of slippage and adjustments on torque vectoring.
Yianny is back!
Yianni should test drive the Impreza 1994 btw.
love the banter between these two .
lotus making a heavy ass electric suv IS the end of the world but man that thing IS fast
Everyone said the same thing about Porsche, but it’s what keeps them in business. Stop bitching about automakers wanting to stay in business
@@josephquinto5812 but porsche does still make their original type of cars aswell.. all lotus have become heavy...
@@danielh9981 Posrche sells more SUVs than they do 911s.....Porsche Macan and Cayenne are their best sellers.
Technically it's not even a Lotus. It just has Lotus name. It's chinese car with Lotus badge
@@ChR0nos_7734its designed in the UK. Just assembled in china.
Yiaaaaannnyyyy is back 🥰🥰😍😍, we've missed you too
kiss him
😊
Kamui Kobayashi also looks happy when Yianni returns.
11:43 thats the most british "Jesus Christ" I have ever heard lmaoo
😂😂
Can’t wait for a Mat, Yianni and Sam video!
Oooooh yeahhh baby !!! Yianni , the man is back !!!
Believe me I’ve waited for every single upload , just to see maybe maybe if he’s back . And Finally wait is over . Big fan
🎉😂
Great video. Nice to see the dynamic duo back together again.
Pretty much everyone:- The Urus is not a good looking car.
Lotus:- Hold my tea
😂 nice.
The front of the lotus is hideous but the back seems pretty fine
Still better looking than the Urus.
@@PrInzzx.The front of the Eletre also looks like 1989 Silvia S13 Q's.
Urus is an even uglier q8 its unbelievable how awful it looks
I fuckin love watching Yanni the faces he makes when he is either winning or losing is hilarious, and then way calls Matt selective bias 😆 to his face is also hilarious. These 2 have a great chemistry.
Said the f word
Welcome back Yanny!!! 🎉
YES! finally yianni is back, mat + yianni + sam = best video
Missed you Yannie… good to see you back !!
Love you Yanni. Missed u and welcome back!
I don't even understand how "off means off" for traction control works in an EV. Does that mean mashing the accelerator just sends full current and voltage to the motors? That's completely mental.
no, it's just stability program off. So no braking when you spin out. With stability on, you get some braking on the sides to get you in track. Would you send full power to all motors on a slippy street you would have wheelspin all over the track.
Well atleast that mode is honest then
@@xsurefaceturning on the stability devices may cost the player a bit of top speed and some time in drag races actually.
Off after launch control completes?
The moment I read that yi4nny number plate, I figured, it was you, missed you in the races, man!
The number plate of Yianni almost resembling a number plate from Midnight Club LA.
No shit Sherlock..
🙌🏼🙌🏼
Lotus back then : light , not much unnecessary power , amazing control of the car
Lotus now : heavy as fuck , lots of power , no control at all
Yeah bec the crowd nowadays only understands straight line speed
It's just a starting sick,and with two electric motors he supposed not to drift on the wet runaway but yet hit the current drag race
Lotus Carlton???
Its not every day you see a vehicle with more drama than a Lambo. Faster, wilder, more drama, more fussing and some may say better looking. Well done Lotus. That is one wild ride. I hope it sells,
Thank you for Yani it´s god to see him back
You two are brilliant together. Don’t stop 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️❤️
7:15 2.6 ton lotus almost veering towards you 😬
This is why drag racing tracks don't race on wet ground
Top work Yanni! Great to have you back 💫👍💪🏻
Good to have you back Yanni
Yianni is BACK! Hope your back issues are resolved. It just wasn’t the same without the dynamic Duo of Mat and Yianni.
🙌🏼
Lotus is under 1/2 of the price and significantly faster! Quite an incredible achievement considering EV's are still improving.
Wonder what the real world range is of both cars. On paper Urus has 277 mile range and Lotus is 305 miles.
U R knowledgeable! And an agreable assessment.
Lotus will do 220-240 at max with careful driving!
It's still a sht box. Buy the Urus.
@@PaulAndBiscuitno, don’t pay 400k for an overpriced audi
@@PaulAndBiscuit Urus is a shit box too, overpriced rs q8.
Glad you're back! We missed you!
hes married, relax
🙌🏼
@@hsvrdon’t be a melt relax!
Welcome back to the team, man👍
I knew as soon as I read the title Yianni was back. Good to see you back in vids and glad your surgery went well.
Yes, Yianni is back! Awesome team work you guys 🤜🤛
Yanniiiii welcome back my man!!!! 🎉
Thanks
Crazy how the Lotus pretty much mocked the £300k Audi by snaking around all over the place before taking off into the distance. Insane power 😮
The Geely is electric if you hadn’t noticed
now imagine if it had proper traction control and tyres that actually work in the wet
“If you survive, the car is very fast”
German cars suck
Bro if audi made a 900hp electric suv it would destroy this easily. I mean look at the taycan GT it would destroy this with less power and a proper launch.
@Yianni yessss you are back. Missed you and im happy you recovered ❤🎉
this has been the most entertaining video in a while its yanney
Welcome back Yanni boy!!! So good to see you again mate!!
Yeahhhhh....Yianni's back 👏🏼🥳 welcome back buddy, about time!
Now put the Lotus against the DBX 707 and Turbo GT. will be very interesting. E: Also, I love the engine note of the Urus, at ANY RPM.😩
No it won't, the Lotus will smash everything unfortunately
@@Don-pk2uyin the dry 100%, turbo gt would be close in these conditions i think
@@Don-pk2uy that's electric for ya
@@Don-pk2uyTurbo gt will give a better show , the urus is slow
@@MR9Mouhibthey are literally the same car
Unless Porsche is lying about the power
I can’t decide if the lotus is a total weapon or a dangerous unreliable death trap!
Great to have you back Yanny
Thanks
YANIE IS BACK,i have been waiting
Finalllyyyyyy ... welcome back 🔥🔥👏🏼
Welcome back ! It's long time no see.
Yianni is back! ❤
Finally!! Yani is back! Good to see your doing well
If this was 20 years ago, drag racing cars of this power, in the wet, with no nanny electronics would have been deadly
Mat you got some serious crazy control skills... Such a brave man😅. Welcome back Yianny🎉
Yianyyyy back 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 finally love you much man great seeing you again
Great to seeee yaaniiii back again!!!! 😍😍😍
I’m glad Yianni is back, was getting sad without him.
I saw this lotus on the road yesterday and was wondering what on earth it was 😮looks good!
Yianni’s comeback made my day !🫶🏻
Good to see Yianni back!!! But we want to see the Lotus race again in normal weather conditions..maybe the wet track is not allowing the car to show its full potential
11:44 "Jesus Christ!" I'm not even sure he could save that Lotus like Matt did there. Matt, the Lotus Savior. 😇
For an SUV that acceleration is maddening! 🤯 Well Done LOTUS 👏
It's not a Lotus, it's a Chinese built Geeley with Lotus badges on it. Look it up.
@@Beer_Dad1975 but the Research & development is done by British engineers for sure
@@The-Celestial No, it's not - not for the Eletre R anyway. They might do a bit of suspension tuning, but the platform is the Geeley SEA architecture - it's 100% Chinese designed and manufactured. Geeley try to pretend the architecture was designed in conjunction with their Swedish "subsidiary", Volvo - but that's just more spin - it's 100% Chinese - it just made financial sense to do it that way.
Geeley are in the business of buying previously prestigious names and using them to over-charge for Chinese quality vehicles. If you are happy paying European prices for Chinese products, then no problem and all good for you. I mean, lets face it, Chinese stuff is probably better than European stuff at this point - but you can also get Chinese stuff much cheaper if you don't buy it with the fake European badge slapped on it.
Off should be off. I'm with Lotus on this one.
Yaaay! Good to see you again!
Y A N N I is B A C K 🎉
Let’s show some love ❤️
🙌🏼
Mat let see a race of Ferrari ,Lamborghini, Aston Martin and Porsche SUV please
great video...nice to see Yianni back. That Lotus think's it's an 80's 911 Turbo (930 widow maker) I wouldn't touch that with a bargepole. imagine if that sidekick would have happened on the road, straight into on coming traffic.
Welcome Yanny
My takeaway of this Video is DO NOT BUY The Lotus Eletre.
Every time I see this car, "Wait a minute! That's not a Lotus. That's a fat chinese SUV" 😂
We want a review on Xiaomi SU7
That's why I love my Tesla Model 3 Performance..it costs peanuts compared to these cars but It still does 1/4 mile in 11.5s consistently without any nonsense launch control.
Yeah but it's a Tesla POS 🤷
No kidding! 5 year old Teslas are broken down and falling apart compared to pretty much any legacy car manufacturer. They're a tech company, not a car company.
I hear ya. Had a M3 and an M5 and the Model 3 is far more consistent. The haters just hear media talking points and will never step out to try new powertrains.
@@MrBeckPJ Hmm. Must be driving a fake Model 3 then. Mine has been rock solid. Changed wipers, air filters and tires couple times, but that's about it. 98K kilometres right now, and still gets away just as fast as 5 years ago.
@@Jeroenneman really? I have no doubt you've taken extra good care of your car, so it's probably closer to the exception than the rule. But check out plenty of TH-cam videos featuring 4 or 5 year old Teslas, comparing them to brand new Teslas, and there is a huge drop off in build quality, fit & finish, etc. Talk to anyone whose owned one longer than a lease and they'll tell you: only lease these things. Just like Land Rover, they basically fall apart as soon as the warranty expires.
He is backkkk
Welcome back Yianni!!!!!!! Greetings from Greece!!!!
Yianni's nose looks like it's been through a rough time.
He likes getting sit on
The Lotus without any driver assistance and without stability control is like driving an early BMW 323i from 1980 or a 911 Turbo. Driver skills are the name of the game here.
What skill is needed on a auto …..
Yanni is back 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Who on the board at lotus decided that what the public want from then is a 2.6 ton electric suv that doesn’t handle 😂
Drag racing in the rain makes 0 sense.
The door speakers on that chinese thing look like they forgot and had to go Halfords
Kef speakers
Dude those are really nice KEF UNI-Q coaxial speakers. It's the legit real deal industry leading stuff. The option just cost an arm and a leg. Welcome to modern aggressively Capitalist china. Its all about the $$$.
They might be expensive, they still look s...! money and taste rarely go together@@Neojhun
I don't care what name they are, they still look something you'd buy at a car boot sale@@sylvaind.6786
@@van_trippin5260so you are imposing your personal opinion as the benchmark?
Yianni let's go 🔥
Yianni “There he goes back the car walking with some purpose in that stride” 🤣🤣🤣