[fitfan]

2 things - one is the technology of manufacturing and assembling the tub : this is the else technology.

the other thing is enginering all thoose assemblies as a few components (like lego blocks) that are interchangable - then you just pick the components to suit the chassis design (suspension uprights, wheel base, width, front engine, rear engine, etc...) and it all goes together from a very well engineered batch of intergrated options.

the first is the elise, the second is VVA.

a "new elise like chassis" has to be re-engineered from scratch, so rather than doing that every time lotus (or a customer like aston martin, or tesla) needs a new chassis - why make it a new project? just do all that work once up front and devople a box of parts that allow variable designs to be assembled from.

the vanquish was the first VVA type car, althougth it was custom parts, but engineered around the VVA general concept.

so anyways ... after a few years of development and engineering - the "evora" is the first lotus VVA car. esprit will be VVA anything not built on an elise chassis will be VVA, and probalby the next generation elise will become VVA.