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Many congratulations. It remains to be seen if Lotus will ever produce an Emira that can match it as a drivers car. Lotus being focused on volume and Geely pushing for EVs asap makes it unlikely.

Think of the Evora as an Emira turned up to 11! 😁

Isn’t that what you would buy a sports car for though?

Honestly shocking what has happened to Tom E who was originally at the front of the queue and has done more to communicate what is going on with the car than anyone at Lotus. You have every right to feel aggrieved.

I’m sure there were people who bought the Sapphire Cosworth that ‘never wanted’ a 3-door Sierra but we all knew how similar they were underneath which made any talk of one being better than the other look a bit silly. Emira drives well because it has so much good stuff carried over from the...

GT430 Sport wow! Ultra rare. Amazing car. Confusingly also less extreme than the GT430 so anyone’s guess what the Sport badge actually stood for at the time!

Originally the ‘Sport’ badge was something equivalent to ‘RS’. It stood for Lotus Sport which later became Lotus Motorsport. Ultimate performance versions of the Esprit were the Sport 300 and later V8 Sport 350. The first supercharged Exige was the Sport 240 and so on. It then got a bit...

If Lotus launched an Emira with a bit more power and revved higher, cut some weight using carbon fibre body panels swapped out the dash for analog dials, slightly narrower body and offered the option of +2 rear seats… … I think one or two here might get a bit excited about that. Emira’s...

Returning to the original topic I don’t know why the Emira has managed to catch the attention standing Porsche owners who are often among the most negative online towards other cars, especially Lotus. Loving Porsche with religious fervour seems to come with equal intolerance for other makes. I...

There would be a lot more Emiras in the list if the criteria was ‘useable sports car under £100k’. I might change my 720S for a Maserati MC20 subject to test drive if that’s allowed. Best Lotus for me is 211 for track. Evora GT430 for road/track, roof off Elise 111r for road. Most desirable is...

Surprised at so many Porsches in these dream garages but clearly Lotus is attracting its intended target market with the Emira. Quite like the idea of the latest Audi RS3 as a daily car currently. I’d add a K-series Caterham R500 which will take my total to about £90k. That leaves £210k for a...

Could be worth mentioning that the Evora DPM works differently in Race mode to the Exige, assuming the Emira Track mode is similar to the Evora. The Exige starts loose and reins the car in using a feedback loop between the various sensors and the ecu and keeps going until it's optimised for a...