{"id":1955607,"date":"2026-05-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1955607"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:00:00","slug":"the-new-105900-lotus-emira-420-sport-is-the-most-powerful-new-lotus-emira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1955607","title":{"rendered":"The new \u00a3105,900 Lotus Emira 420 Sport is the most powerful new Lotus Emira"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the new Lotus Emira<\/a> 420 Sport. Adding the moniker \u2018Sport\u2019 to a\u2026 sports<\/em> car feels a tad unnecessary, but the 420 bit is important: it gets 420PS \u2013 that\u2019s 416bhp \u2013 making it the most powerful Lotus Emira you can now buy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s more than the entry level 2.0-litre turbocharged Emira… ‘Turbo’ (360bhp), and more than the 400bhp offered by both the 2.0-litre Turbo SE, or the 3.5-litre supercharged V6 of the \u2026 V6 SE.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Those sixteen additional AMG horsies help this sports car dubbed 420 Sport accelerate from 0-62mph quicker \u2013 3.9s \u2013 and max out even higher, all the way up to 186mph. There\u2019s an eight-speed dual clutcher on board, which means your only chance to get a manual Emira remains that V6.<\/p>\n

Lotus has added lightness via an optional \u2018Lightweight Handling Pack\u2019 which, again, for a lightweight sports car designed to handle feels\u2026 yeah. In any case, this optional Handling Pack gets two-way adjustable Multimatic dampers, rides a whopping 5mm lower, features a new titanium exhaust, lithium-ion battery, carbon fibre components and something to record how fast (or slow) you are around a circuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Elsewhere, Lotus has refined the Emira 420 Sport sports car via new body components designed to better manipulate the air around it: new vents, a new front splitter, larger sills, a lip spoiler and a louvred tailgate. There are numbers attached to how much it improves the airflow. You might care, but you might care more that these additions \u201csubtly reference\u201d old stuff like the Esprit Turbo.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more optional stuff, including the chance to add lots more carbon fibre to the exterior of the car, different wheels, new colours, and a removal tinted glass roof panel available for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAdjustable dampers, increased downforce, sharper responses, reduced roll \u2013 every detail obsessively engineered to put the driver more in control,\u201d said Gavan Kershaw, Lotus Cars\u2019 handling expert.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll pay for such control, mind \u2013 the 420 Sport starts from \u00a3105,900.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the new Lotus Emira 420 Sport. Adding the moniker \u2018Sport\u2019 to a\u2026 sports car feels a tad unnecessary, but the 420 bit is important: it gets 420PS \u2013 that\u2019s 416bhp \u2013 making it the most powerful Lotus Emira you can now buy. That\u2019s more than the entry level 2.0-litre turbocharged Emira… ‘Turbo’ (360bhp), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1955607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}