Emira Review Index [V6 FE]

For those looking for the latest Emira V6 FE reviews scheduled to be released today, I've self-volunteered to maintain a quick reference index here.
Please let me know of any missing articles and I'll update accordingly.

Reviewer	Type	Direct Link
Edmunds	Article	New Lotus Emira Is Worth the Wait | Edmunds The 2022 Lotus Emira, powered by a supercharged 3.5-liter V6, is both the end and the beginning of an era as the automaker transitions to a world of fully electrified supercars and crossovers. www.edmunds.com
Harry's Garage (Harry Metcalfe)	Video Review	Harry drives the Sports and Tour suspension back to back on the same road and shares his thoughts.
Schmee150 (Tim Burton)	Video Review	Published 21st June Bought the Right Car?! LOTUS EMIRA V6 FIRST DRIVE The countdown is on! The folks at Lotus have delivered an Emira V6 First Edition to @TheShmuseum in a near-identical spec to my inbound car, to take for a fi... www.youtube.com
Carwow (Mat Watson)	Video Review	Lotus Emira review - and my BANNED test! Looking to sell your car? Then you've come to the right place. carwow is the free, easy way to change your car online. Check it out here: https://bit.ly/Buy-... www.youtube.com
TopGear	Articles and Video	Published 3rd July Chris Harris talks about the Lotus Emira Chris Harris On… The All-New Lotus Emira | Top Gear Series 32 “I’d feel a bit scared if I were a McLaren or an Aston Martin at the moment” Chris Harris chats to Top Gear Magazine’s Jack Rix about the all-new Lotus Emira... youtu.be Published 20th June Lotus Emira Review 2023 | Top Gear The last ever petrol-powered Lotus looks fantastic and drives with precision, but not quite as much emotion as we might’ve hoped www.topgear.com The big sportscar test: Lotus Emira vs Porsche Cayman vs Alpine A110 www.topgear.com
AutoTrader (Rory Reid)	Video Review	NEW Lotus Emira: The Last REAL Lotus? | 4K Rory reviews the new Lotus Emira, Lotus' last ever petrol sports car. Soon the company will transition to electric cars, but for this last hurrah the Emira p... www.youtube.com
Evo	Article and Video Review	2023 Lotus Emira review – strong showing for Porsche Cayman GTS rival | Evo The first new Lotus for a generation, and the last to be petrol powered, shows great promise but needs some polish www.evo.co.uk
CAR	Article and Video Review	Published 22nd July Lotus Emira vs Porsche Cayman GTS vs Alpine A110 group test review CAR magazine UK compares the Lotus Emira sports car with the Porsche 718 Cayman GTS 4.0 and Alpine A110 S www.carmagazine.co.uk Lotus Emira (2023) review: new 2.0-litre engine driven The brand new Lotus Emira, tested on road and track by CAR magazine. www.carmagazine.co.uk Lotus Emira vs Cayman 718 GTS vs Alpine 110s
Autocar	Article and Video Review	Lotus Emira V6 First Edition 2022 UK first drive | Autocar Most important Lotus in decades heralds a new era and sees out an old one, being the firm's last petrol sports car www.autocar.co.uk
Pistonheads	Article	2022 Lotus Emira | PH Review The Emira is one step closer to production-ready. And the good news (mostly) keeps coming www.pistonheads.com
KHTV	Video Review
The Drive	Article	2023 Lotus Emira First Drive Review: Lotus Grows Up, and Just in Time The Lotus Emira is the last of its kind, the final gas-powered car from the legendary company. And what a thrilling sendoff it is. www.thedrive.com
AutoExpress	Article	New Lotus Emira V6 First Edition review | Auto Express We hit road and track in the new Lotus Emira - the model that redefines the brand as a sports car maker www.autoexpress.co.uk Pictures: New Lotus Emira 2022 review - pictures | Auto Express Pictures of the new Lotus Emira www.autoexpress.co.uk
WhichCar	Article	2022 Lotus Emira review: V6 First Edition, international launch Lotus wants to compete with daily-driver premium sportscars like the Cayman and its new Emira V6 First Edition is a big step in the right direction www.whichcar.com.au
CarBuyer	Article	Lotus Emira coupe review | Carbuyer “The Emira marks a big step on in terms of design and quality for Lotus, and it’s great to drive” www.carbuyer.co.uk
Hagerty	Article	Lotus Emira first drive review: Will the fab four become the famous five? | Hagerty UK Is the Emira good enough to turn the fab four – Elite, Elan, Esprit, Elise – into the famous five? Read Andrew Frankel's review to find out. www.hagerty.co.uk
Road and Track	Article	Published 1st September Lotus Emira Road and Track Drive The Lotus Emira Is One of the Greats Lotus's final combustion-engined sports car starts a new era for the English automaker, and a prime example of what a well-funded Lotus can build. www.roadandtrack.com The 2023 Emira Is an All-Time High For Lotus The Emira comes from a bygone era. www.roadandtrack.com
Goodwood	Article	First Drive: Lotus Emira 2022 Review | GRR The Emira is the final combustion-engined Lotus, and it might finally be a match for the Porsche Cayman... www.goodwood.com
The Intercooler	Podcast	Reasonably good post-embargo Emira discussion on The Intercooler. Apple Podcasts Web Embed embed.podcasts.apple.com
Motortrend	Article	2023 Lotus Emira First Drive Review: The Porsche Substitute Don’t want a Porsche Cayman? Try this. www.motortrend.com
Drive	Article	2022 Lotus Emira review: International first drive With a reborn and reinvigorated Lotus looking to a new and very different future, is the Emira the first excuse-free Lotus? www.drive.com.au
AFR	Article	Lotus takes on Porsche with its $185,000 Emira This is a street car for buyers who appreciate luxury and great looks – although with a claimed top speed of 290km/h, it’s no slouch on the racetrack. www.afr.com
Parkers	Article	Lotus Emira Review (2024) Lotus Emira (2024) in-depth review. Read our experts' views on the engine, practicality, running costs, overall performance and more. www.parkers.co.uk
CarExpert	Article	2023 Lotus Emira review: First drive We drive the last Lotus without electrification around Mount Panorama to see if it's a worthy contender to the Porsche 718 Cayman. www.carexpert.com.au
Caffeine & Machine	Article	Caffeine & Machine Hitting the Alps in the summer, chasing the #cultofmachine in the brand spanking new Lotus Emira. Soul food at its best, delivered in spades across the myriad of special alpine roads littering the... www.facebook.com Photos on Instagram: Caffeine&Machine on Instagram: "Hitting the Alps in the summer, chasing the #cultofmachine in the brand spanking new Lotus Emira. Soul food at its best, delivered in spades across the myriad of special alpine roads littering the region. It would be 1,055 likes, 8 comments - caffeineandmachine on June 13, 2022: "Hitting the Alps in the summer, chasing the #cultofmachine in the brand spanking new Lotus Emira. Soul food at its best, delivered in spades across the myriad of special alpine roads littering the region. It would be so easy to... www.instagram.com
The Sunday Times Driving	Article	Lotus Emira V6 2022 on-track review: Lotus's last petrol car is more than significant ... it's good This isn't going to be one of our usual reviews, because our test drive of the new Lotus Emira wasn't usual, either, having experienced just three and a half laps behind the wheel around Goodwood Motor Circuit,. www.driving.co.uk
Car and Driver	Article	2023 Emira Is a Grown-Up Lotus The last gas-powered Lotus also may be the first you don't have to make excuses for. www.caranddriver.com
The Sun	Article	I've driven the Lotus Emira - you can use it every day and it's saving BRITAIN THERE’S only one type of person who wouldn’t fall in love with the Lotus Emira. Those Twitter-dwelling keyboard warriors who think they know more about cars than everyone else. I’ve seen a few comm… www.thesun.co.uk
AutoCar UK	Article	Published 2nd July Lotus Emira vs Porsche 718 Cayman | Autocar Lotus’s new sports car is a great car in its own right - but can it hold its own against the class leader? www.autocar.co.uk

 

[frazzer]

Have you tracked a GTR? I have and would say you are totally incorrect about corner speed. NISMO GTR is #14 at Nurburgring. Regular GTR is #30. They are so easy to drive fast they become boring.

In truth I haven't tracked one, but have been in the passenger seat of one full beans around a track. It had 800bhp so was probably more of a point and shoot machine than stock which no doubt is better balanced all round.

 

[Lotustoronto]

TOTALLY agree with this. But I think the issue Lotus have is that you can get this same experience in cars costing far far less than £80k.
I get that same experience in my Corrado VR6 and you could choose all manner of vehicles (a lot considerably rarer than the Emira) for under £20k

Used vs New... opens a whole new convo. You can get a lot of cool cars for 80K. But new it's really down to the Cayman GTS. You can also spec a Cayman GTS to more than the Emira F/E price.

Back to the used, I would have already purchased something in the pre-owned market had I found what I was looking for. I am very picky and would only purchase cars in VERY good condition. I will have to live with the Emira for a couple months before I can decide to move on and do more soul searching or not. Let's all be honest we are not getting married to the Emira, and to be fair even if I did, I don't think I would be very faithful haha.

 

[Lotustoronto]

Another opinion review;

 

[emiraspain]

The GT3 touring is IMO a pinnacle for a drivers car. Here in Canada, it is almost 3X the price of the Emira. I can not compare it, but yes it's better. Emira is a sports car, the GT3 touring is a track car made for the road. GT3RS is just a race car made road legal, not my cup of tea.

Clarkson didn't buy a lot of cars that I would gladly own... he didn't even really like Porsche's lol. But the comparison to what the Alfa 8C was back then is similar to what the Emira is today. I am ok with that. For the same price, only the Cayman competes and right now I still lean Emira > Cayman. It's a new old car. Nobody else is making one that looks anywhere near this good.

Sport Suspension / Cup 2's and a 430 BHP tune for 1,300 pounds. Probably the same price for @emiraspain monthly "rental" allowance by the hour over in Catalunya.

If the Emira was DCT i4 only, I wouldn't be here even if it gets to 500 BHP and is quicker than a GT4. Not what I was looking for. Even though that will be the fastest version no doubt.

I bet my rent is by far the cheapest of any one renting on this forum..... but I bet not many are renting on this forum .
One day I will do the Touring..... but still, like all these new damn sports cars, its wide as a BUS...
Caterham is still favourite, wide as a rat on a diet

 

[Cachaco131]

Used vs New... opens a whole new convo. You can get a lot of cool cars for 80K. But new it's really down to the Cayman GTS. You can also spec a Cayman GTS to more than the Emira F/E price.

Back to the used, I would have already purchased something in the pre-owned market had I found what I was looking for. I am very picky and would only purchase cars in VERY good condition. I will have to live with the Emira for a couple months before I can decide to move on and do more soul searching or not. Let's all be honest we are not getting married to the Emira, and to be fair even if I did, I don't think I would be very faithful haha.

Used vs New means manufacturers should be forecasting depreciation rates and used market values to price their new cars. I don't see any logic in that to be frank.

The whole "I can buy a great used car for 60k" logic is overplayed. You're essentially telling all Tesla new car buyers they are idiots who could have bought an amazing car for the 60k+ price they are paying.

In other words, new car prices should behave very differently if that argument was valid

 

[Cachaco131]

There’s a trade-off and compromise for pretty much every consumer good so that doesn’t really say much.

Before reviews it was new Lotus: £100m investment, brand new state of the art factory with quality control and tolerances, a ‘brand new’ car? Now that’s changed to expecting the latest and greatest is not Lotus…?

What you need to remember is one of the key ideas behind the Emira was to attract new customers to Lotus. To turn around and call these same new customers “non-Lotus” is a bit disingenuous…

You think £100m in capex is enough to make Lotus = Porsche? I mean...have you looked at the Porsche IPO? Lotus is minor leagues relatively speaking.

£100m is a drop in the ocean that simply was needed to make sure Lotus cars don't fall apart like the Elise did and ingress and egress are not limited to flexible 20y old people. That in itself opens the market to new customers , but still to those that are not expecting magic. A brand new car that is a Cayman GTS killer would require a lot more money than that.

If you want that perfect balance of modern performance, modern engine, comfortable interior, looks, track and road...be ready to double your budget.

 

[TomE]

If a car fails on the track and no one is there to editorialize it, did it really happen?

See also: Schrödingers cat-delete

 

[EspritGuy]

See also: Schrödingers cat-delete

Wait, was the 3rd Cat delete I keep reading about?

 

[emiraspain]

You think £100m in capex is enough to make Lotus = Porsche? I mean...have you looked at the Porsche IPO? Lotus is minor leagues relatively speaking.

£100m is a drop in the ocean that simply was needed to make sure Lotus cars don't fall apart like the Elise did and ingress and egress are not limited to flexible 20y old people. That in itself opens the market to new customers , but still to those that are not expecting magic. A brand new car that is a Cayman GTS killer would require a lot more money than that.

If you want that perfect balance of modern performance, modern engine, comfortable interior, looks, track and road...be ready to double your budget.

double... more like 4 5 times and in fact 10 times..and dont forget the investment was in the factory, not in the car, two different things in "some" ways.
We can only hope the electric sports car is a closer competitor as both companies start from a blank sheet..... and we can only hope it isnt sheet

 

[Lotustoronto]

Used vs New means manufacturers should be forecasting depreciation rates and used market values to price their new cars. I don't see any logic in that to be frank.

The whole "I can buy a great used car for 60k" logic is overplayed. You're essentially telling all Tesla new car buyers they are idiots who could have bought an amazing car for the 60k+ price they are paying.

In other words, new car prices should behave very differently if that argument was valid

I agree, we should only compare new vs new... However the lack of manual mid-engine sports cars that are new forces us to look into the pre-owned world. Or up what you are willing to spend on a toy.

 

[Citizen]

 

[VL3X]

Nice to see some new footage, but hardly a review. More of an overview.

 

[JohnHoward]

Nice to see some new footage, but hardly a review. More of an overview.

This seems familiar to me - is it edited together 'b-roll' from a while back
I've got a new strapline for the car
Lotus Emira - the unobtainable sports car

 

[Leonard]

Nice to see some new footage, but hardly a review. More of an overview.

And still getting facts wrong. Titanium exhaust ...?

 

[VL3X]

And still getting facts wrong. Titanium exhaust ...?

Titanium finishers at least! Pretty sure the actual piping is SS.

 

[Tonyshepp]

Never mind all that 14 seconds in and some one has taste at Lotus, in the car park A silver e92/93 M3

 

[TomE]

This seems familiar to me - is it edited together 'b-roll' from a while back

Yes, it's edited sections of the Hethel Yellow B-roll from the Lotus media site:

Emira - Lotus Cars Media Site

media.lotuscars.com

 

[Pops68]

Haha how many times are we gunna listen to the car pass by? As much as I like to see new Emira videos this one was a snoozer!

 

[Dabjbr]

Haha how many times are we gunna listen to the car pass by? As much as I like to see new Emira videos this one was a snoozer!

True. All it did was reinforce the idea that it desperately needs a cat delete or something. So dang quiet.

 

[Citizen]