November 3, 2026

The Lotus Eletre is a fast, rare and properly luxurious electric SUV, priced in India from Rs 2.55 crore to Rs 2.99 crore ex-showroom. It’s easy to like and harder to recommend than it was at launch. In 2023 it was close to a class of one. Now the Porsche Cayenne Electric Turbo costs Rs 2.27 crore, makes more power and has a larger network behind it. Our view: buy the Eletre only if its

Surat, Jaipur, Indore and Ludhiana have the strongest public evidence as India’s leading Tier-II luxury car markets, with Lucknow, Kanpur and Chandigarh close behind. That comes with one big caveat: no carmaker publishes city-wise sales, so nobody outside the industry can produce an exact ranking. What the evidence does show is that demand is spreading, slowly and unevenly. BMW says its top 10 cities now account for about 65-70% of sales, down from about 80%