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More photos and details about the Esprit please! How’s it compare to the Emira?

It’s pretty much an opinion rant with some valid points and some emotional schlock thrown in, which he more or less admits it is. His passion for the brand and the car are apparent in how strongly he feels. It’s like having a friend you know is capable of greatness but just can’t ever get it...

I have a set on my 2006 Mustang GT. Very good wheels for the price. I'd love OEM size and offset, as well as a set that would fit flush with the edge of the fenders. If spacers were needed, it would be awesome if the wheels could be engineered from the get go to use an Emira-specific spacer.

Looks like you took photos of my own Xpel PPF’d osmium silver Emira! Honestly, it looks similar to the result on my car. More seams than I would like, but it was a template so I knew that going in. I chose to proceed with the Xpel template PPF because (1) I did not want a detailer removing...

Those look great

I have wondered if this is a problem on most Emiras. My bumper is not aligned the same on both sides. It’s flush with the rear quarter panel on the drivers side, but stands proud of the passenger side rear quarter panel. I noticed it the day I took delivery of my car. I looked at another brand...

A V8 would be awesome to drive, but I think impossible to sell in the required numbers. The price of the car would be pushed into a weird no-man’s land.

Man, although I have no need for it whatsoever, and at the risk of ruining an otherwise very well balanced car, I WANT 600 HP EMIRA!!!!!

I love it! Now just make sure a stock-style transmission can handle the power. I don't want a sequential. I want 3 pedals and a gear lever!

Unfortunately, I think even if Lotus did come out with it, it would be a miss in the market. It’s going to be really hard to have a NA V8 that fits with enough displacement to match the performance of the existing powertrains. They will have to eliminate the rear cargo area, or cut into the...

The car may be great or horrible, who knows, but Mr. Announcer McWrinkle Pants must have forgot to drop his suit before the big show.

V8 ain’t gonna happen. Prove me wrong Lotus, prove me wrong!

Your wheels are among the very very few that I think improve on the factory design. Looks great!

I had a conversation with my 10 year old daughter just this morning about how SHE would have gotten an Emira in a lighter green! Dark verdant looks stunning in direct light, I just hate how it hides the lines on overcast days.

I wish I agreed with this, but I don’t. It’s like Olive Garden, or any number of chain restaurants. It makes financial sense to sell the consumer “more for less” than less car for relatively more. An entree at most chain restaurants is beyond what’s reasonably large for one person to eat at a...

Man, I’d love a Gordon Murray influenced Lotus. Just keep him away from the styling.

Oooooof! That’s ugly! Not a fan. I’m not a fan of Evoras in that color either, but they pull it off much better than the Emira.

No offense to the Evora GT. It’s the car that convinced me to buy a Lotus, and for a long time I thought about a lightly used Evora GT rather than an Emira. Mostly because it is a little raucous and flashy!

Lotus shot itself in the foot when it initially announced the car and the target price. I understand that the world changed between the announcement and the actual production of the car, but I think expectation and reality were just too far apart for a lot of people. Frankly, I wonder if the...

First, I'll admit, I'm an Emira fanboy. Now that I've said that, I think the Emira CRUSHES the Portofino on styling!

Our cars would feel absolutely wild with 600 hp. Wild in a way that I think old-school supercars would feel. I need it!

My guess is that it's limited by traction and the manual transmission. GM got to a point with F/R layout of the final C7 manual Corvette where they just couldn't make the car quicker without increasingly race/track focused parts. A lot of the recent improvement in 0-60 times has come from DCT...

Thanks for the comparison. I wonder what a high end engine build, like a 500 hp JUBU upgrade, would make then Emira feel like. Another 1000 RPM and 75-100 HP would make the car feel wild, I think. For me, the Emira’s transmission could be improved as well. It’s not bad, it’s just not great...

It has a blue cast in certain lighting.

Longevity and general performance. Blow by can lower the octane of fuel. The can should help eliminate that.

Hopefully everything is sorted out now and you can enjoy your car!

That’s for the courts to decide. However, I won’t be the one to get a definitive answer for the forum.

Your pic makes me second guess my upper black pack!

The rear 3/4 view looks like Emira of The Month to me!

I think the time is ripe for a Saudi prince with a passion for the brand’s heritage to purchase it outright for pennies on the dollar and re-re-re-introduce Lotus to the world! Or maybe, in an odd twist of fate, Mazda buys Lotus, as both companies share a passion for driving enthusiasm but from...

Lotus won’t go under. You think this is the worst it’s ever been for this company? Not by a long shot.

I’m a couple of hours south of Dallas in Waco. To me and most Texans, anything below 70 is cold, and anything below 30 is hell. I wouldn’t last more than 2 days in a Canadian winter. You should come visit in January or February for a good laugh. Whole cities shut down if there’s even a chance...

Sounds like a nice morning!

What year NSX and what kind of 993?

I do wonder if the NSX would really feel quick. I love its understated, clean design. Looking exotic without strakes, scoops, fins and huge spoilers is quite a trick! I think the design has stood the test of time much better than the 360. There were a few OEM manual 360s.

Also, I would prefer a car with no screen at all and analog gauges, with hard button controls for everything, so the older interiors don't bother me one bit!

The 360 had a manual swap done. I couldn't help but think that despite lacking 2 cylinders and over 1,000+ RPM, the Emira with 3rd cat delete and valve controller sounds pretty dang good next to the 360's flat pane V8. I'm not a huge fan of the nose of the refreshed 1st gen NSX, and the 360...

There's a great new Everyday Driver video out today- "Emira, NSX, or Ferrari 360- Which would you Rather?" Now I just need to find a NSX and a 360 to try out to see if I agree!

Can’t tell if the lightbulb and thumbs up are sarcastic or not, aka Captain Obvious. I’ll take the accolades, regardless.