Dodge Circuit program not yet broken
Dodge's Circuit EV sparky sportscar looks set for production after allUS magazine Car & Driver reports that Chrysler is testing Circuit EV prototypes at its proving circuits in Michigan and Arizona, and in Britain. Odd, they say, for a vehicle ostensibly not going into production.
Chrysler's ENVI division president, Lou Rhodes, further fuelled speculation with a teaser in an interview with the magazine.
If it happens, he said, Chrysler would recruit Lotus to build the chassis and body in Hethel. From there it would be shipped to the company's own plant in the US for the installation of electrics. He added that the prototyping and proving work has helped cut half a second off the Circuit's 0-100 km/h acceleration time.
Rhodes also told the magazine that Chrysler's economies of scale could help it put the Circuit on the market with a price tag "tens of thousands" of dollars short of the Tesla Roadster's.
Pundits are still prefixing speculation with assurances that it's still just speculation. But they're also tying Chrysler's expressed plans to sell 100,000 or more EVs with the fact that the company has already spent three years prototype-testing the Circuit and are now doing so overseas, to push the speculation to an obvious conclusion.
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