2024 Lotus Eletre R Review // The World's First 'Hyper' SUV
The 2024 Lotus Eletre R (~$150,000) is a brand new fully electric SUV, with 905 horsepower and an estimated range of 600 km / 373 miles. It has a claimed 0-100 kmh time of just under 3 seconds and a 266 kmh / 165 mph top speed, which has Lotus boasting the Eletre R as the World’s fastest dual-motor SUV. But despite this speed it still weighs a considerable amount - especially when compared to any other Lotus in existence. But does it still drive and provide a Lotus-like experience despite its size and weight? Thomas and James are excited to find out! We hope you enjoy the episode. And then subscribe, silly.
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That intro was absolutely magnificent! How do you keep coming up with such incredible intros?!😂
did you just watch the intro and immediately head to the comment? there no way you could watch the 22 min video in approx 5 mins
2001
@@dhruvasammeta69a lot of people do that lol
And I keep skipping them, I'm here for the car not the lame jokes
I watched the intro then posted here. The pause button is your friend 😊 I agree the intro was pretty inspired, it made me LOL
Please never stop doing your fun filled intros! Anyone can do a car review, but your intros certainly put you apart.
hope they hire Louis CK to do the intros.
Not everyone can do good car reviews btw.... KZhead is full of amateur car reviewers, these guys are on top with the likes of Camisa (I know Thomas and James wouldn't like to read his name) and Matt Watson
@@amorgan20111 Completely agree!
One of the most legendary intro of Throttle House period
there reviews should not be in the same category as matt watson, because they are better in EVERY Sense i believe. they put so much more work in, it seems
I think Thomas had the right reaction in the opening scene.. Wuhan joke was gold... lmao!! Well done James
You guys are so good with these reviews. I know its been said before, but you truly are the spiritual successor to Top Gear. That's not hyperbole...you didn't have a big network to finance a world-class car show, and yet here you are not just making top quality videos, but you have the banter and commentary that made Top Gear so great. Keep doing what you're doing. Throttle House absolutely rules
Eletre R SUV overall is 8.1/10. Quite enjoyable to drive despite being an EV SUV.
The Wuhan joke was absolutely phenomenal. Great review as always
Welp that was lotus' fault for setting up the joke.
I choked 😂
So catchy!
So funny I lost my breath!!
This was one of their greatest intros. I was hoping James would add in, "You're driving me bat s**t crazy." at the end, though.
Electric and SUV are not words I’d want to associate with Lotus but if this sells well enough to fund their proper sports cars then I can live with it
Thats the only reason I can accept a car like this! But judging by this being chinese and the chinese taking over, thats not a good sign...
Exactly. People said the same about Cayenne. If it funds us a new Elise I'm all for it.
@@_TheElMan exactly!!! The problem is just if they dont give us that 😭 and since theyre literally changing into a chinese company focused on the chinese market im scared for it.
unfortunately it won't. emira is their last gas sports car and i don't think geely is going to allow any more pure sports cars to come from lotus.
I agree but it still should have been lighter. That way brand identity can be there.
Well done. They are going to sell literally tens of these!
probably more
@@Flugs0 I hope so. I hope they sell enough to make an affordable EV sports car.
@@lwwells I hope not or they'll keep making SUVs instead
@@asharak84 UGGGG That certainly is what happened to Porsche.
i don't really get it. why is it such an issue when a tradional sportscar manufacturer creates a non-sportscar? i guess it kinda takes away some meaning or value from what a porsche or a lotus is, but it doesn't take anything away from all the other sportscar that they have put out or will put out in the future.
I can't think of anything further from "simplify and add lightness" than an electric luxury "hyper" suv. Hopefully this exists so they can use the sales to prop up the cars they want to make, and not because some investor got greedy and decided it was time to cannibalize the brand for a big payout.
This is what Geely does - they buy up recognised names and the churn out crappy Chinese EV's to sell to rich stupid Westerners.
Lotus is pretty much on the brink of bankruptcy. Anyone who invests in Lotus now is actually saving it, making EV or not.
Guess loads of Lotus and/or Volvo fanboys down-voted my comment pointing out that they are both Chinese owned companies now, and all their EV only models are built in China based on Chinese designed & engineered platforms. Truth hurts I guess.
@@shuangzhou8445 I think the point is, it's not really Lotus if Lotus had almost nothing to do with its design and engineering, and they build it in China in a Geely factory and slap a Lotus badge on it.
@@Beer_Dad1975Well the lotus part. Or shall I say the lotus gene comes in the tuning of handling characteristics and chassis dynamics. I test drove it back in China, it is extremely well balanced, and handles better than some of the smaller and lighter competitors, without any loss of the comfort that people expect out of a luxury family SUV. The spirit of down sizing and adding lightness still holds true in that particular manner. After all, some start up can use the best possible parts for suspension and still mess up the tuning due to simply lack of engineers who understand motor sports. (The one I test drove back in Shanghai was tri-motor, and a 4 seater) It is a phenomenal car, in a sense that if you have some background knowledge about various brands and actually love driving; you feel the story flow through your blood when you floor it and carve it hard down a race track.
What makes you guys hands down the best car channel on KZhead is how genuinely funny you both are, cool cars are supposed to be fun and enjoyed I’ll never understand why other people want to take that fun out of cars by giving serious and stuffy reviews
"People that have different perspective than me are dumb >:(" They like the same stuff as you and you wanna put them down? Car community so positive..
@@crazylego98 you’re the negativity you’re talking about then.. all I said was I personally like to have fun and laugh when I watch my car content LOL
@@travvhunter you're comparing one as the best, implying the other as not the best, going further to say 'ill never understand", and then you turn it on me. Okay enjoy your day lol.
😂 these guys are up there, but who the hell are giving serious and stuffy reviews?
@@Southghost5997Matt Farrah gave a serious, controversial, and political review that has a lot of people talking. I can’t think of anyone other example honestly. Almost all reviewers are more technical than these guys, maybe that’s what they mean.
02:52 is EVERYTHING I love about this channel. You guys ARE the evolved Top Gear and you deserve many more subscribers.
Stop looking for a top gear alternative. When a real one comes up, it would feel natural and not the viewers trying to skew their perception to make it seem like top gear
@falcongamer5867 too bad your ratio says nobody cares
@@pandre5458 what's the reasoning behind that? It's a reply
@@falcongamer5867 Bro, I love Top Gear, but it was just 3 decently entertaining British dudes. Stop looking for an alternative? Stop pretending Top Gear was magic lol. They had so many terrible episodes along with the good, you remember that right? Throttle House is better, if anything. If they're not your style, Rory is better too. Rory even was a Top Gear presenter, than he ditched that scene for youtube cause he didn't need em.
Im surprised this video didn't come with a Covid-19 footnote after hearing that joke XD
that intro made my day... the last second cracked me up! Congratz guys and hope this year brings you even more success!
Hitting the like button because you guys are killing it with the quality! Don’t like the car but the effort you put in the video 👏 Keep pushing and wish you even more successful year than the previous!
LIES, THAT LOTUS IS NOT THE WORLDS FIRST HYPER WHATEVER. TESLA PLAID ALREADY GOT ONE AT 1000HP..DONT LISTEN TO THESE FAKERS ...LOL EVER..
These two guys makes me proud to be Canadian. Informative and entertaining, both to a higher degree than required.
Same here!
James has a weird accent. He must be French Canadian.
@@64Alvis He's not Canadian, he's Brit
Woosh man :)
@@64Alvis Lol.. ya he must be from Rimouski, Quebec.
A classic throttle house intro.
You’ve outdone yourself for the intro skit. Someone give them an Oscar! Thomas puking had me laughed out loud for real! 😂
Truly incredible car content in every aspect - informative, entertaining. Thanks guys, keep going!
James Attenborogh is always spot on... You guys absolutely make me laugh with every episode. Keep having fun (along the way of throwing some car knowledge in there for "review' purposes).
Re: the intro... Here we find the 'Oafs', a descendent of the 'Lummox'. It itself a genus of the 'Clod' family tree, where, you'll also find the associated branches of 'Lout', 'Lump' and 'Stumblebum'... (The more you know 😉) 🤣🤣🤣 😎🇬🇧
@@thedarkknight1971well you definitely got an idea man. 😉
The minute you think the intro will be a fail you realize it might be the best one yet
well.. I feel it would fail only if put at the end..regardless whats in it..?
"The badge says Lotus" but everyone else says "Is that an Urus?". The interior is so different, I love it.
As always, another fantastic review!! Great work, as always!!
LOVED the intro. The Wuhan joke was on point as well. Great start to '24, guys!
Lotus: we want to sell 100k cars a year! World: cool, let's do this! Lotus: priced at $150,000! World: wait....what?????
Don’t worry, these will all sell lol
Another EV too expensive to “save the world”
I work for a Lotus dealer - they're absolutely flying out the doors here in the UK, we're not used to being so busy 🤣
@@asmedia5220how much does a new battery pack cost, with labor, once the originals fail 5-10 years from now? I bet these will be $40,000 on the used market once the pack tax starts to kick in.
And marked up to $300,000
I always look forward to how your next and next and next intro will be....very creative, funny and precise to the car under review. Laughing all the way from Kenya...Keep it up!!!. Awesome reviews as well.
Y’all are hands down THE #1 Car Review Channel! Thanks for everything y’all do!
Car Throttle and CarWow are 2nd and 3rd best Car review channels.
The shot of the roof fading and Harrison standing over it was hilarious. It was like something from a horror movie, lol. Great work as always.
You guys are by far the most entertaining car reviewers to watch.
Throttle House in 2023/2024 starts to look like 2009 Top Gear due to how amazing it really is.
most cringey
Carwow😂
@@TinyT1792 Nope. Mat's good, but T & J are nearly on par with Top Gear
@@Chongfjongdong No one's forcing you to watch
this is hands down the greatest and best intro of any car video i've ever seen 😂😂
proper car reviews with a proper sense of madness and humour ... brilliant !
That Wuhan joke was gold!
OMG, James sticking his hands through the seat to touch Thomas, priceless! 😂
Always a pleasure watching you two! You rock
the Wuhan joke starting at 2:50 was hella funny this channel is gold
Best intro ever 😂😂😂
Yep. Throttle House always nailed those intros.😊
The most genuine car review channel on earth! PERIOD! 😎😎😎
That intro killed me 😂😂 You guys are the best! Top 10 intros so far, and been watching since the beginning
I'm sure it will be perfectly reliable 👌🏻
Lol, for sure... nothing screams reliability like a British car, especially a high-tech EV
@@mattspeer01Made in China no less
@@mattspeer01 It's Chinese. Desgined in China and built in China. Lotus is 100% owned by Geely.
Not any better…
@@runescapemasters123 marginally worse
Looks like Predator from the front. Have to say, this is the first Lotus I've looked at without any feeling of excitement.
Probably that dry grey color. Looks amazing in green, red, yellow.
Love your guys work and as a Brit think the humour is on par with comedy required to keep us from getting to move away from the show. One thing you should closely look into and possibly revisit about the Lotus is the shocking fact that the range is actually very bad to what it calms. I’m here in Hangzhou China and had the car to test for 2 weeks and found the figures displayed within the GUI were all over the place and consistently jumped around. So range anxiety its a major factor and surprised me considering the high price of the car. Lotus really needs to address this is as a plethora of cheaper cars give me true range figures when using the car on a daily drive. It’s not a small issue and buyers should be aware and not be swayed by the many other plus points that the car delivers but the GUi is absolutely shocking and needs an updated now, as you’re paying so much money for an elite SUV. Keep going guys you’re hilarious and I love your channel, a comment from you would be appreciated.
Is Eletre R SUV available in Guangzhou, China?
@@purwantiallan5089 yes
I love your intros! Phenomenal! Greetings from Germany!!!
We need a compilation of all your intros one day 😂, truly hilarious!
Along with the blooper reels from all of them!
Some of the jokes in these sketches hit harder than an SNL episode.
The Wuhan joke was perfect!
AS always GREAT VID :) always enjoy you guys
Y'all's review of the GT350 helped me to decide with absolute confidence to get one a few years ago when you did the M2 shootout. When I was getting a Volvo, at the dealership our sales guy had an M2, and we swapped keys and went for a drive in eachothers cars! It was a hoot, but all of the other employees were saying my Orange Fury Gt350 was "the cool car" compared to his Teal M2 competition. I agree to this day! Thanks for making these hilarious and fun car videos!
Jeez people watching these videos actually buy the cars ?? 😅 congrats ur rich asf -a broke trades apprentice
Imagine being a first timer on this channel and seeing that intro😂!
thats the best intro you guys have done yet, so good absolutely perfect xD
Another great one from you guys love it, when are you getting your Emira? 😄😉 This should never been Lotus !!!!
The intro to this should have been the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey
I'd watch you twerps review a sausage. Sending love from Yorkshire.
Great way to keep me entertained, loved the intro
Best intro in all videos/movies/tv shows I have ever seen
It makes economically sense to sell an electric SUV, it still feels wrong. Let's hope a lot of rich guys buy this car so Lotus can afford to keep building light and nimble cars in the future 🙏
Best selling lambo of ALL time is the urus, the Ferrari not an SUV but is an SUV purosangue thingie has greater demand than any Ferrari ever! I bet the all new ev only Porsche macon will outsell the ice macon by the end of next year, heck the taycan outsold The 911 twice already. 😀 The ice macon is the best selling Porsche of ALL time. Seems to be a common theme here eh?
I know, thats why I said it made economical sense. @@4literv6
@@4literv6that's the reason why it will fail,the competition is just better.
@@motorista_ramon not sure I'm following here? The competition has vehicle's with superior perf sure(model X plaid since late 2021. They have luxurious 2 and 3 row ev suvs and even sporty ones sure. But this is definetely one for the premium ev segment and that lotus badge(despite geely&China ownership plus tech. Still means something to some people. I mean people didn't stop buying jags, Porsches n lambos when Ford owned jaguar, vag bought out Porsche and lambo right. Imo this will sell quite well for lotus/geely. I bet just 3-5,000 units sold annually would make them very happy!
The problem is that the Emira is Lotus’ last ICE car.
Lotus left us drooling over the Elise and Esprit back in the day but this thing is a monstrosity that resembles 4 different cars molded together to create one personality less meh-mobile .
See one, drive one and you may change your mind
304 mile WLTP range is pathetic. That is probably equal to about 220 mile real world warm weather range. Cold weather range will be atrocious.
This one is for making money and selling in larger volume, the other sport cars are for the niche market for car enthusiasts
@@CarShopping101373km for the electre S this is the performance model. Plus these support 350kw charging
lotus doesn’t need people like you to “drool”. you can “drool” for a lifetime and lotus doesn’t benefit a cent. they need this to work to get money for sports cars, like porsche’s suvs
That intro was amazing. Top content in general 👍🏼
Man it sure is fun watching you lol. Gorgeous car but I would have expected MUCH more talk about the handling since in reality… that’s all Lotus is really known for. Also, I LOVE that you guys kept the glitch in the screen when Thomas was trying to turn on the fog mode. I can only imagine that its due to the lotus connect OS is built on Android, Great job guys!
This is definitely the funniest of the Attenborough intros!
That intro was an instant classic 😂😂😂😂👍🏾
You guys are EASILY my favorite automotive KZheadrs!!! 🤣👍🏼
That is hands down, the best opening of any YT content.
Hands down best intro’s on KZhead. Keep up the good work fellas. Happy New Year
You guys made laugh so hard this morning. I think my woke up my neighbors. Door handle part was hilarious 😂
You guys are the best!! Intro masters!!!
Well - that’s my first time I have ever taken the time to watch an EV review in my life. You were informative and entertaining as usual and you made it bearable. I have a deposit on an Emira as well but no interest in the EV - if I had the $190k it would not be spent on an EV - but a car of my dreams instead - probably used. I can only hope an alternate green technology that is more interesting and lighter comes along very soon. Thanks guys.
Wow, amazing. Big clap for Malcolm for bearing with the video 🙄
@@peedeegtShut up, he’s praising them and you’re mad? Loser
@@peedeegt EV simp.
The quality of a Lotus paired with the attention to detail the Chinese car industry is known for, all in an electric car thats 150K? What a F*****G NIGHTMARE! Good luck with that, sport.
Atrocious at the very minimum. I foresee flop in the Eletre future
They're delivering in Europe right now (not in the Americas until next fall/winter), so we'll see over the next several months how the vehicle fairs in software updates and early reliability. Could be a stinker, could be problem-free.
lol, you two are brilliant! Another excellent intro (and video) and Thomas’ reaction on it being an EV nearly caused me to pee a little 😂😂
Great video!! really had to laugh at the intro!! :D will you do a cybertruck video?
I'm just chilling at work eating my lunch and when the door handle popped out in the intro, I nearly done spewed food all over the place! Hilarious intro!
Not sure how you all got into this gig originally, but you deserve all the success that comes your way (no interior pun intended, James). You guys rock!
The Eletre R SUV is as heavy as FORD F650 SUPER TRUCK.
crazy!@@purwantiallan5089
Love the video. You guys continue to crush it. I think it’s interesting the trajectory that Lotus has gone.
Haven’t watched the rest yet, but that intro was amazing. A top fiver for sure.
The intro really got me 😂 thanks for entertaining and providing great information for us guys
Your Intros keep me going in this crappy world, absolutely love your guys work and the fun you bring to your channel!
The wuhan joke was hilarious.
You guys should be on Prime Time!!!. Great job!!
Absolutely the best intro!! 👌
If there is something worth watching after Jeremy and team left top gear then its throttle house. I wish you guys the best. Keep it light, fun and informative.
God, I absolutely love the car enthusiasts in the wild!!! I have to keep up with these two wild beasts. The best story of the year by far!
Sick intro boys!!😂😂 love to have you back for 2024!!
Love these guys. Never change
I genuinely appreciate the commitment to the intro bit. 🤣
You guys are extremely good, Extremely creative! It's wonderful
love your work! Canadians are such nice people.
Absolutely amazing skit guys 😂 love it, keep it up
Always a good morning when this crew drop a video!
Intro was incredible, Wuhan references were hilarious! Ending bit was great. You guys truly are next level. Keep up the great work!
Wish they also include reference from Osaka.
That smoke out sunroof glass is awesome!
Man!!! You guys really know what you doing. 1st the intro than the the COVID19 joke. That's hilarious. Stay awsome and creative as always.
That intro will age well. Well Done Guys!! 👍🏻😄👍🏻
Sir David Attenborough would be proud after watching that intro 😂
Oh the horror! A heavy Lotus without a high revving Toyota engine?! How things have changed! As far as SUV's go I like it though. That interior is just about stunning and save for the lethargic touch screen response, it's position and size are fantastic. This was the funniest intro to a video too so well done boyz!
I spat my drink with that intro! You guys!!!🤣🤣
I laughed through the entire video; The intro The Wuhan joke The dentist joke The German joke 🤣🤣🤣
Your intros absolutely slay me! 🤣🤣 As a fellow Canadian, I'm so proud of you boys.
Epic intro! Throwing up after not seeing the exhaust was hella funny! Lol
Yooooo I don't usually comment but the intro is freaking FIYA 🔥
Man what an intro, just amazing!!
That was a SICK Wuhanese burn!! The year is off to a great start, you two!! 😂😂😂
Hands down, Throttle House is the best.
This intro and Hoovie's Dumb & Dumber intro are the best, love it!
Fantastic review, guys.