The hyper GT has arrived in Europe. Can Lotus live up to the billing...
Is there a more hotly contested or hard-to-quantify commodity than the ‘soul’ of a car company? Manufacturers, particularly those lucky enough to have long and well-regarded histories, agonise over it like a man asked to compose his own wedding vows - especially when straining to make it fit a new and often contradictory business case. For brands with a performance-based legacy, this happens all the time in minor ways. And occasionally in major ways, too. It did with the advent of SUVs.
In a perfect world, this conceptual faultline would've proved easier to span. Had the Emira been near-perfect and its rollout faultless, many perceived faults elsewhere might’ve been papered over. Similarly, had its new EVs been smaller and nimbler and more cutely positioned, they might’ve been easier to accept. But the Emira was fumbled at the production goal line and all its EVs are brazenly planet-sized. Old and new Lotus gelled together about as well as Indiana Jones movies.
By any measure, this makes them very well catered for. It is easy to get carried away when comparing the Emeya to the Porsche Taycan - in fact, it was benchmarked against the larger Panamera - but in terms of physical space, there is only one winner. It is so flamboyantly roomy that an exponent of old Lotus values might question the need for so much legroom.
Certainly, it would have struggled to bring the same technological howitzer to bear. Like the Eletre, there are essentially two flavours of Emeya: the S with 612hp courtesy of two 306hp motors and the R with 918hp thanks to a much beefier 612hp motor at the back with a two-speed gearbox. Both feature multi-link suspension all round with dual-chamber air springs, but only the R gets rear-wheel steering and active anti-roll.
In a straight line, the car’s volatility is inevitably lessened. But unless you’re intent on giving your passengers whiplash, the R has no real constructive outlet for 726lb ft of torque anyway. The 524lb ft available to the S is more than adequate for finding the 155mph limiter and the Emeya is no less stable when you get there. Everywhere else it is satisfying in all the ways the pumped-up R fails to be. It tries less hard.
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