Those of you concerned that Lotus's new head of everything Danny Bahar and his band of merry men were potentially ruining Lotus, well, consider those feelings confirmed. Bahar confirmed to Europe's Car entrepot that the Lotus City Car, shown originally at the 2010 Paris Auto Show, is confirmed for production.

Accord to the report, Lotus is not actively engineering the vehicle, but rather shopping out the production of the hybrid powertrain to Proton and will be placed in an undisclosed platform from a major carmaker. (Uhm, Toyota anyone?)

This will certainly lower Lotus' corporate CO2 and fuel economy numbers, and if it doesn't elicit the same fun that, say, the Abarth 500 does, it'll lower a lot more for the struggling / surging brand.

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