With their ties to Toyota there is always the possibilty of a BRZ/FT86 derived Lotus

As Leins said though, Dany Bahar was axed for trying to change the entire direction and meaning of Lotus, for a few bad PR guffs and for embezzling a shit tonne (metric) of money. The 5 concepts, the etherne being one of them, were all scrapped too as far as I know.