1 HOW DOES IT HANDLE ON ROAD?
Seeking shelter during a particularly stubborn Welsh deluge? 'In A Lotus' has to be right up there with 'Huddled Under A Sieve' on the list of places you don't want to find yourself. But I'm sitting in The New Lotus, while the team valiantly splashes about outside getting cameras set up, and all is well with the world. My bottom is cradled by an electrically operated leather seat, there's warm air keeping the window fog at bay and barely any water penetrating the door sills. This is startling progress, and it's still a prototype.
And yet, the new Lotus Emira isn't a huge technological achievement. It's not made from strange and exotic materials, it doesn't rethink aerodynamics or debut some whizz-bang e-assisted powertrain capable of running on bin juice, it's just a petrol powered mid-engine sports car with a manual gearbox and Hollywood good looks. It's the car company with the best gene pool in the business summoning up the full force of its experience and presenting it in a way that's palatable to a wider audience. These days we demand bandwidth, a car that can frazzle our minds on an empty back road, but is also comfortable, reliable and usable the rest of the time. The Emira is that, the Porsche Cayman thwarter that brings Lotus kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
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ELECTROMECHANIC
Meet the electric restomod that you can create at home it's so easy you can do the conversion in a day, apparently
ALL THE SMALL THINGS
Word is there's no such thing as a decent, small, simple, reasonably priced car these days. Allow TopGear to investigate
VOLKSWAGEN ID.BUZZ 7-SEAT
Volkswagen’s new seven seater ID.Buzz is now the family mover it always should have been
BMW M5
TO THE POINT: THE NEW BMW M5 IS AN excellent car. It's very fast, confident, endlessly configurable and now offers a not inconsequential 40ish miles of electric-only running for happy tax returns.
VAUXHALL GRANDLAND vs FORD EXPLORER
These two brands have been the 'pile it high, sell it cheap' kings of the UK market for decades, but their new core models take a very different tack...
CAR OF THE YEAR - 5 STAR
Yep, Renault's retro-chic new supermini with an optional wicker baguette holder Scoops the grand prix...
MEANWHILE... IN THE FUTURE
Catching rockets with chopsticks isn't the only autonomous tech going on in Elon Musk's world...
KING OF THE HILLS
You wait for one 800+bhp super GT, then two rock up at once. It's the Aston/Ferrari showdown we've all been waiting for...
PACKAGE
What better way to test the Hyundai Santa Fe's SUV-ness than hand delivering TopGear magazine to each and every subscriber in... New Zealand?
MYTH BUSTER
\"THE GOLF GTI WAS THE OG HOT HATCH\"