The AMG-powered Emira i4 is the last new internal combustion-engined Lotus sports car, and it's one of the best - lotuscars
On track, however, the Sport chassis is firmly at home. There’s enough movement in the body to feel the car adjust to your inputs and allow you to adapt accordingly. Its balance is neutral and any understeer or oversteer genuinely comes at your command, with messages clearly telegraphed back to you. Retaining a hydraulic steering set-up is key and was a crucial decision in the car’s development, one that Gavin Kershaw – the man responsible for how every Lotus model drives – insisted on.
The four-cylinder Emira operates in a small – incredibly small – sector with only the A110 and Cayman as genuine competitors before you start heading down the used route. In each car you have three different characters and personalities, the A110 the agile but edgy one, the Porsche the controlled and predictable one with the Emira sitting sweetly in the middle.At the car’s launch Lotus spoke of a sub-£60,000 Emira but we’re still some way from that and the i4 First Edition model starts at £81,495 – we’re not sure how they can chip £20,000 from the price to reach that promised entry price.
It makes the £62,490 A110 S look the bargain it is. It might only produce 296bhp but it weighs around 300kg less than the Emira, too, and so well sorted are the Alpine’s dynamics that you’d swear blind it too had been developed in Hethel. It’s a similar story with Porsche’s Cayman S, which starts at £63,999 for a PDK equipped model. Its four-cylinder turbocharged engine produces a similar 345bhp and at 1385kg the PDK version weighs 61kg less than the Lotus; although its engine sounds awful. Truly awful. And then there’s the uncomfortable issue of a PDK-equipped six-cylinder Cayman 4.
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