Global Lotus dealers have been shown the final design for the Type 133, he confirmed, “so they know what’s coming next – and excitement was very high”.
Elaborating on how Lotus and Polestar could collaborate in the future, Windle explained: “Geely is flexible and comfortable with us working with our sister companies, or third parties or other suppliers, OEMs, or anything. There’s no direct purchasing or design strategy that they imply on us.
“With Lotus being a smaller company, and with us growing up, it makes sense to take technologies from our sister companies.
“If you go to an OEM for their parts, you have to pay for the privilege of going in the shop to see if you want the parts. With Geely and our sister companies, we can go and see if we want the parts, and if we do we then pay for them.
“For a small company, that really helps. But it works the opposite way as well: our sister companies and Geely come to Lotus for powertrain development, EDU development, ride and handling development – it’s a really flexible, organic organisation.
“We’re stronger as a group, but we’re individual enough in that group that you don’t all become morphed together. It’s a fine balancing act and I think they do it very well.”