Emira 420 sport, to be officially reveled 26/05/26?

[davidexige]

Official tease from Lotus, looks like the Emira 420 Sport will be reveled tomorrow.

https://youtu.be/Ac24aHKPbUI

[bus_ter]

I'm surprised to see it's the AMG variant (though it doesn't sound like the current AMG).

Lotus said they were going to release a few special editions before they get replaced by the Chinese V8 Hybrid Auto.

I would like to see a higher tuned V6. But as the Emira came out already in a relatively high state of tune (it needed to for the extra weight and provide equivalent performance figures) there's not a huge amount of headroom left.

Emira - 400bhp - 430NM - 7000rpm

The highest tuned version of the Evora:
Evora 430- 430bhp - 440NM (Manual gearbox limited) 7200rpm
(Quite an uplift from the 276bhp original Evora)

The Emira may also be top limited for emissions reasons.
All means I doubt we'll see a V6 with any further meaningful increase in performance.

[davidexige]

Now live on the Lotus site. Perfect spec for me, I would have everything apart for the sunroof.

https://www.lotuscars.com/en-GB/emira/420-sport

Edited by davidexige on Tuesday 26th May 11:42

Edited by davidexige on Tuesday 26th May 11:43

[bus_ter]

416bhp. They even had to round it up for the 420 figure.
16bhp and 25Kg. That's like not having a bag in the boot. I doubt anyone could ever feel the performance difference while driving.

But it looks nice. Is there a price anywhere?

[Beachbum]

bus_ter said:

416bhp. They even had to round it up for the 420 figure.
16bhp and 25Kg. That's like not having a bag in the boot. I doubt anyone could ever feel the performance difference while driving.

But it looks nice. Is there a price anywhere?

I think I saw the price as being £106K, but I may be wrong
The sun roof looks good, but I was hoping the Targa roof would be an option. However until the configurator comes online, no way of knowing if that is an actual option

[Winston Wolf]

It is in effect simply a gussied up Emira. Saw two years ago a carbon kit that was essentially this car and it was sub 5000 miles and £56k at the time.

This should have been launched three years ago for impact. Now they need this plus 500bhp which the car cannot cool so will never get with a warranty.

[Winston Wolf]

Except the wing top vents.... they look good unlike the Evora's nasty 430 versions which looked like you had fitted them yourself.

Lotus - sort your st out.

[MarkHP]

Winston Wolf said:

It is in effect simply a gussied up Emira. Saw two years ago a carbon kit that was essentially this car and it was sub 5000 miles and £56k at the time.

This should have been launched three years ago for impact. Now they need this plus 500bhp which the car cannot cool so will never get with a warranty.

The 2028 car will have a hybridised V6 with over 500hp - already announced and I expect they know that they can cool it. Obviously we'll see a few special editions to keep up the interest in the Toyota and AMG versions for the next couple of years before they are retired.
Then they will have the 1000hp Esprit (let's hope they do call it that), so there's some life and interest in this brilliant company yet.

[240Cup]

hopefully can get the wheels and carbon bits later on separately for my V6 First Edition...