Lotus Extreme

The Lotus Extreme was a hybrid concept car dated 2000. Supercars.net describes it as a hybrid car that paired a motorcycle engine with a 20 hp electric motor, and its specification lists a 700 cc engine rated at about 120 bhp, a six-speed sequential gearbox and a composite body. The car was small, about 3.5 m long on a 2.5 m wheelbase, with a quoted top speed of about 241 km/h and 0 to 60 mph in about 5 seconds. A Lotus enthusiast guide calls it a radical two-seater with a fighter-cockpit seating arrangement. The sources disagree on the output of the motorcycle engine, giving 100 hp in one place and 120 bhp in another, and the headline of the Supercars.net page gives a figure that does not match its own specification table.